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The first contestant has been eliminated from I’m a Celebrity 2025, with former Lioness Alex Scott sent home after a viewer vote.
On Friday (28 November), hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly arrived in camp to inform the contestants that football pundit Scott and former model Kelly Brook were in the bottom two – an announcement that appeared to surprise their campmates.
It was then revealed that Scott would be the first celebrity to leave the jungle, after facing the vote opposite Brook, Jack Osbourne, Ruby Wax, Martin Kemp, rapper Aitch and YouTuber Angryginge.
Scott said she felt “free” to be out of the jungle and that she’d found the experience “incredible.
“I’m so glad I got to do this series with such a great bunch of campmates,” she added.
The footballer said she gravitated to EastEnders star Shona McGarty in the jungle as they were quiet personalities – and reveals she “struggled with such big personalities” as it takes her a while to come out of her comfort zone.
Scott said while she wants Aitch and Angryginge in the final, she would like McGarty to win the show as it would give her the confidence “to take on life”.
During her time on the show, Scott got caught up in a controversy after smuggling in salt as contraband – and in her exit interview, she unveiled another packet that had gone undetected to the shock of Ant and Dec.
She added that she grabbed the salt packets in a panic after spotting them shortly before leaving her hotel to enter the jungle.
Scott has since revealed she is bypassing the I’m a Celebrity wrap party later this month, held in Australia, to be with her girlfriend Jess Glynne back in London. Singer Glynne’s mother recently had a stroke.
The first elimination arrived after a live Bushtucker trial saw contestants tasked with downing cocktails made of two gruesome ingredients.
Alex Scott was first star eliminated from ‘I’m a Celebrity 2025’ (ITV)
The remaining celebrities are expected to be voted out nightly until the reality show’s finale on Sunday 7 December.
Current favourites to win the show include Aitch, Angryginge and Celebs Go Dating star Tom Read Wilson, who was a late entrant on this year’s series with Irish podcast host Vogue Williams.
New episodes of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! air on ITV1 and ITVX every night at 9pm.