Gemma Collins received bucket-loads of scorn last week when she left the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! jungle three days after going in.
But on today’s This Morning, the TOWIE star attempted to regain some of her fans by announcing she is donating her fee to a charity for starving children.
MOAR Gemma Collins news for your eyeballs:
Speaking to Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford, Gemma explained how she only got a proportion of her promised fee because she walked out so early.
“It’s going to a children’s charity for starving children because a lot of it was played on in there [with people saying], ‘Oh, Gemma is starving, she’s leaving the jungle’ and I’ll be honest with you, I was starving,” she said.
“I’m a plus-size girl, I went from everything to 500 calories a day, and that did affect me. When I went in the Bush Telegraph the room was spinning around, all my blood sugar levels had dropped. I’m meant to take insulin three times a day, but with all what happened to me, I forgot to take my medication in the jungle as well.”
During the ITV interview, Gemma also revealed that the I’m A Celeb gig was her "dream job" – but she now realises she should never have gone to Australia.
“In hindsight, I never should have got on to the plane to go,” she continued.
“I never should have and when I got there, you know, it’s not the TV company’s fault, I was trying to be ‘upbeat Gemma’ and they knew that something had gone on, but I probably covered it up a lot more because I didn’t want to let them down – they’d given me such a massive opportunity.”
And what of her comments about quitting TV for good – does she stand by them? Er, no.
“That was a silly thing to say. At the time when I said I don’t want to be in TV – I was Gemma, I was a broken girl. How good is that to anybody, you’re not seeing the real me. “That’s not fair for people that love me to see me in that way.”
Any… any thoughts?
ALL of Gemma Collins' most Gemma Collins moments in the I'm A Celeb jungle:
I'm A Celebrity 2014: Gemma Collins most iconic statements
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"People are going to see the real bare, stripped-back me. I might just become Bear Grylls, you never know."We never did get to see Gemma chowing down on a raw snake, drinking her own urine or sleeping inside a rancid camel (yep, Bear Grylls has seriously done all of those things).
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"Yeah alright, I've cracked at the first hurdle. It's like the turtle and the slug or the horse and the rabbit or something, I can't remember what it is."Who could forget the age-old story of the turtle and the slug?
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"If they don’t give us a treat I’m going to kill myself.”Well, the suicide threats didn’t work, but outside of the jungle is a plentiful world of treats just waiting for Gem.
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"I've never been in a shower which takes so much hard work but you've just got to roll with it, like Oasis said."
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"I feel like I’ve got malaria. My poo is bright fluorescent yellow, we’ve got to get out of here today.”Symptoms of malaria do not include yellow poo, constant whinging or an Essex accent, sorry Gem.
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"Seriously, I'd give anything for a bit of dried fruit. Dried fruit! I'm not even asking for a ham sandwich. You know what I mean? With a packet of Quavers on the side."We’re not sure dried fruit is the best remedy for fluorescent yellow diarrhea Gem, maybe just stick to dry bread and water until the ‘malaria’ clears up.
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"People that murder get treated better than this, and that's the truth. Even a murderer gets fed three times a day."Murderers also don’t get paid at least £25,000 to go on a jolly holiday to Australia either. They also tend not to have strops and quit their sentences, but who cares about the details….
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"If I'm not in that camp in three minutes, I'm quitting."That’s what the helicopter was for, Gem.