I'm a Celebrity ... Biggins is crowned king (and queen) of the jungle

11 April 2012
The Weekender

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Camp panto star Christopher Biggins was crowned king of the jungle after defeating former supermodel Janice Dickinson in the final.

The former Porridge actor wept as he was told he was the public's favourite figure from I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! and was greeted as he left boyfriend Neil Sinclair as he left the jungle.

Former contestants were reunited as the vote was announced in the jungle - but there was no sign of Marc Bannerman, who romanced Cerys Matthews.

Speaking later to the show's hosts, Ant and Dec, Biggins said: "I can't believe it - I'm really shocked. Thank you for voting me, Great Britain."

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The excitement is almost too much for him

He gushed: "It's been a wonderful, wonderful experience and I can't believe that I'm here, that I've done it.

"I've made wonderful friends and I've done wonderful things that I never thought I would do. Unbelievable fun, it was just the best.

"There was a bit of friction but listen, you put 11 people together and there's bound to be friction."

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Hail the King: Christopher Biggins clutches a glass of champagne after he is voted the winner

Janice said: "I'm so honoured to make that guy Biggins my king - queen - of the jungle."

Ex-boyband heart-throb "J" Brown was voted into third place after almost three weeks in the jungle.

"I've had an absolute blast of a time. l loved it, I loved being outdoors," he told Ant and Dec afterwards.

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Biggins gets a smacker from his boyfriend Neil Sinclair

He added: "I wanted to have a go at some madness and I did."

"J" said he wanted Biggins to triumph ove Janice in the final vote.

Earlier, Janice overcame won five stars in her final Bushtucker Trial - despite being bitten by a rat.

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Christopher Biggins is huuged by Janice Dickinson as he hears the news from Ant and Dec

Medics were called to the I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! camp after she was attacked on her hand by the rodent.

The self-proclaimed "world's first supermodel" was sleeping peacefully in the early hours when she suddenly leapt up looking petrified.

At first Dickinson, 52, thought that she had been bitten by a snake.

Cerys Matthews, 38, who was stoking the camp fire, exclaimed: "Flipping heck Janice, that's nasty."

Looking at the two bite marks on her hand, Dickinson told the others: "Do you know what, I want to get out of here, I've had it."

Matthews attended to Dickinson's hand while a medic was called to look at her. The loudmouthed US star said later that she had felt a sharp pain while dreaming.

She said: "It bit me right to the bone. I could feel it go chomp. "The blood was coming out, I think I need a rabies shot. It was going for the f*****g food."

Later, Dickinson won five stars in her final Bushtucker Trial and overcame her fear of cockroaches.

As a box of mealworms was dropped on her left arm, she shouted: "Oh my god, this is so f*****g gross, they are fornicating. I don't want them crawling up me!" She shouted to Ant and Dec: "They are going up my pants".

The next box was a huge mass of slime which was thrown on her torso. When Ant asked her if it smelled, Dickinson replied: "Does it smell?"

"I had two babies. Do you think placenta smells you j**k off."

As Ant and Dec collapsed in fits of laughter, Dickinson was told green ants were about to be poured on her right leg.

She responded by falling silent and sticking up her middle finger.

Dec told her that there were two yabbies around her head. "Why don't you just shut up," she told him. "I'm going to yabbie you after this, d***head".

Ant announced that the last box contained cockroaches.

Dickinson then lay crying and whining as the crawling cockroaches were poured over her.

As she was released from the handcuff and mopped down by medic Bob, she sobbed: "I'm traumatised."

Christopher Biggins was given the Bushtucker Bonanza on his final trial.

He was asked to eat witchetty grub, a crocodile's foot, three cockroaches, a kangaroo penis, and the final dish - kangaroo testicles.

He joked while eating the penis: "I'm really a breast man".

At the sight of the last dish, he cried: "Aaaaarrrgh, it's revolting."

Throwing it into his mouth, he stood up sharply and chewed away.

"Has it popped yet?" asked Ant.

As Biggins nodded and kept chewing, Dec wondered: "Has it exploded?"

"J" managed to win four out of five stars after he was put in a rapidly filling tank complete with baby crocodiles, eels, and water spiders.

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