'I live like a contestant on I'm a Celebrity - and only shower once a week'

An environmental communicator has 'one of the most remote jobs in the British Isles' and said she lives like a contestant on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!.

Chloe Hurst, 29, first took the opportunity to volunteer as an assistant estate warden on The Calf of Man, an island off the south coast of the Isle of Man, in 2022.

The island, owned by Manx National Heritage, is only accessibly by boat and is home to a plethora of flora and fauna, including birds, seals, dolphins, moths, butterflies and insects.

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Chloe, who has a more permanent base near Falmouth, Cornwall, lived and worked on the 600 acre island for nine months. Her job included carrying out day-to-day estate and habitat management, conducting wildlife surveys, ringing migratory and breeding birds, and looking after the farmhouse and hostel, which has one shared bathroom. And now she's back for a second time to live and work on the island.

She described the Calf as “a paradise island” but said you have to be “pretty hardy” to work there, as she and the other three wardens could only shower once a week and supplies and food are only deliverable by boat.

Although Chloe missed her “home comforts”, she said working on the Calf was one of the best years of her life and she returned to the island this year to work as a paid estate warden for another nine months.

Chloe told PA Real Life: “It’s like I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! in a way.

“When you’re put in those environments, you do find out things about yourself and you might be surprised at how well you adapted or how hardy you are.

“I’ve learned a lot and I’ve grown a lot, and