I'm a Celebrity's Frankie Dettori reveals odd way he learned English

Champion jockey Frankie Dettori has revealed the strange and unorthodox way he learned in English on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here.

While discussing some of his background growing up, he told his fellow campmates how he learned English by watching episodes of EastEnders. During Friday night's episode he discussed how when he left his home in Milan he was so homesick he would "cry every night".

However, during the 'hard' period of his life, he explained how he was able to improve his English by tuning into the square.

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After saying how he moved to the UK at the age of 14 by himself to become a jockey, he added: "Yeah. I said, ‘Dad, I’m going to be a jockey.’ He said, ‘Right, if you’re going to be a jockey, I want you to take it serious, so I’m going to send you for six months in England, six months in France.

"I stayed in a bed and breakfast. It was hard. I was homesick, cry every night. About three months [I cried]. Not always. I learned the phrase, ‘What is this?’. Then I watched TV. Your thing [Danielle], EastEnders…”

Danielle, who portrayed Lola in the widely popular soap, added to the strangeness of the situation by revealing that this isn't the first time she's heard someone learning English from EastEnders. She replied to him: "Do you know how many people say to me, ‘I learned English watching EastEnders’.

"It’s probably the worst place to learn.”