ITV I'm A Celebrity's Oti Mabuse fights tears in first interview as she reveals she's been 'scarred'

Oti Mabuse was left fighting tears as she opened up for the first time about her I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here stint. The former Strictly Come Dancing star just missed out on making the final of the ITV reality show this year.

She was among the 12 celebrities who signed up to take part in the 2024 run of the jungle-based programme and left the camp in fourth place after she had missed two eliminations after winning immunity and a place in the iconic Celebrity Cyclone challenge.

She finished behind WAG Coleen Rooney, McFly singer Danny Jones and Rev Richard Coles. It was then last Sunday (December 8) that Danny was crowned king of the jungle with his fellow campmates' support.

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Now, Oti has opened up about her jungle experience, telling Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary on This Morning on Friday (December 13): "I just loved it…We were in a space where we were able to just talk about things that we were going through, or our childhood…

"I think we all first learned that the more we talk about things; the more we get over them and they don't hold us back anymore. They don't hold power over us anymore."

Describing her close relationship with one campmate in particular, television and radio presenter, Melvin Odoom as well as discussing how many campmates turned to her for emotional support, she said: "It wasn’t something I went in [to the jungle] thinking it would happen but when your friend doesn’t look like themselves anymore and they have tears in their eyes, you can either ignore them or just be like, ‘Let’s just go away,’ and we have that conversation or, ‘If you need me to stay here,