I’m A Celebrity 2015: Vicky Pattison is Queen of the Jungle and this year’s winner
VICKY PATTISON has completed a remarkable turnaround in public opinion and been crowned Queen Of The Jungle on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
Vicky Pattison is the I'm A Celeb winner
The former Geordie Shore regular had been the bookies’ favourite right up until the finish line, and beat George Shelley after it was confirmed that Ferne McCann had polled third.
After ecstatically running around the studio screaming and hugging her former campmates, she tearfully said: “It doesn’t sound right. I think you have made a mistake!
“I can’t thank everyone who voted for us enough. I don’t even think I deserve it.”
Speaking afterwards on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here Now on ITV2, she told Joe Swash: “I thought I’d be one of the first ones voted out.
Vicky tearfully meets the press
I thought nobody would know who I was, and when they did they’d realise I was a k**b!
"I thought nobody would know who I was, and when they did they’d realise I was a k**b!”
She added: “I feel f**king amazing! Sorry mam. This is the best feeling ever. I didn’t think it would happen to me, like.”
Runner-up George told hosts Ant and Dec: “There’s moments where I was so down… I was just thinking it was gonna be like an adventure. It was gruelling. I didn’t think I was gonna enjoy it that much.
“Everyone’s just so hungry. You’re living off a handful of rice and beans. The tiniest things, like a handful of herb makes a lot of difference.”
The other campmates witnessed the result
Vicky Pattison is reunited with her mother
Ferne had earlier said after being eliminated: “I didn’t expect to win. Overwhelmed. I never thought I’d get this far.
“It was the best experience, fantastic.”
I'm A Celebrity airs a special after-show programme on Wednesday on ITV.