Harry Redknapp reveals Ant and Dec vetoed his pleas for shock I’m A Celebrity rule change
A cruel twist tested HarryI’m A Celebrity star Harry Redknapp has revealed that Ant and Dec vetoed his pleas for a rule change on the hit ITV show.
Harry, 79, was forced to pick which all-star campmate to send home last night (Thursday, April 16). The football legend picked Seann Walsh, bringing the comedian’s time in South Africa to an end.
I’m A Celebrity star Harry Redknapp sends Seann Walsh home
Last night saw the first celebrity of the series leave camp.
In a cruel twist, after losing a Bushtucker Trial against Jimmy Bullard, Harry was informed by Ant and Dec that he had to eliminate one of the celebrities from the show.
Harry had to pick a celeb from his own team, which consisted of Ashley Roberts, David Haye, Scarlett Moffatt, Mo Farah, and Seann.
Harry has now revealed that he struggled so much to pick someone that he even offered to eliminate himself.
He also admitted that he thinks Seann “hates” him now, after he accidentally called him ‘Stewart’.
Harry reveals he tried to eliminate himself
Speaking at an event on stage recently, Harry said: “So there was a comedian in there called Seann Walsh. Nice guy. So the day before, we were chatting away, and he’s only just arrived. So Sean’s there, and he is a QPR fan, and he says, ‘The show is great for my profile and I am really looking to do well’. I said, ‘That’s great Seann’.”
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“But we lost the trial and as a forfeit I’ve got to go back into camp with Ant and Dec and send one of them home. Now we have only been there two days. So I think ‘No, please, I don’t wanna do that. I’ll go home,’ and they said, ‘No, you can’t do that. You’re the king. You’ve gotta vote out one of your subjects and send them home. That is the rule,” he continued.
“So I get into camp and I feel terrible and by the time I get there I have got to tell them who I am sending home. So I’m not gonna send David Haye home. He might knock me out,” he the said.
Harry on sending Seann home
Continuing, Harry said: “And I am getting on great with Mo Farah and the girl on the next bed to me was Ashley Roberts. A Pussycat Doll. I’m not sending her home! She teaches me how to do yoga at 7 o’clock in the morning.
“So Poor Seann. I am gonna send him home. By the time I get back to camp, my head is full of stuff, and I was dreading this. I am sending that poor bloke home and he’s telling me how much he wants to be here,” he then continued.
“I get into camp. And by the time I get there, they are all stood in front of me, and I’ve got to tell them which one’s going home. So I’m stood there. I am the king and I have got a silly crown on…. And I forgot his name. It has gone completely blank out of my mind. I am looking over at the blackboard with the jungle jobs on it in chalk.. but someone has scrubbed it all out. I’ve told them [Ant and Dec] who is going home, so I can’t change it.”
“I am dithering, and I said, ‘I’m sorry, Stewart. I am going to have to send you home’. Afterwards, they all said, ‘Harry, his name is Seann’. He will hate me,” he said.
Upon learning of Harry’s decision, Seann said: “Oh, fair enough, yeah, that’s absolutely fair enough.”
Harry later admitted he’d “lost the plot” and that his mind “went blank”, hence why he referred to Seann by the incorrect name.
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