Olivia Attwood hints at return to I'm A Celeb 👀
She was forced to leave the show after 24 hours in camp
Last updated 15th Nov 2022
Following her return to the UK after being forced to quit this year's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here after just 24 hours, Olivia Attwood appeared on Monday 14th November's This Morning where she opened up about her short stint in the jungle.
Olivia, who revealed the real reason for her shock exit during an interview with the Mail On Sunday, spoke to hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield in her first television appearance since leaving Australia.
Speaking to the pair about whether she'd be up for doing I'm A Celeb again in another year, the former Love Island star said: “It might be more of a logistical thing to make it work…I would love to because yeah, it was cut short. Tests are still normal thank God, I’m grateful that I’m healthy, but it makes it harder to accept.
"But it is what it is, there are worse things happening in the world.”
Olivia also put an end to rumours that she left because she was pregnant, after a number of fans speculated online.
She said on the show: "There’s loads of rumours swirling around the internet and I think ‘Olivia Attwood pregnant’ was trending on Twitter - and it’s not that I can assure you - and it’s not that exciting when it boils down to it.
"I was pulled out on my first day in main camp for routine medical checks - which can be blood pressure, giving blood - so I had my blood taken and the results came back that my iron was low, I was showing that I was anaemic. Potassium was really low, sodium was really low, so basically all the markers you would look for were low so they consulted with a doctor outside of camp and they said I would need to come to A&E basically off the back of those readings, so I was taken to the nearest A&E department, admitted in there where they ran their own checks and their checks came back normal, so…”
She then added: “Just before leaving the UK I’d had all those checks and everything was normal and the first thing I said to the camp doctor was ‘is that possible for things to change in such a short time?’ and he didn’t really have an answer, but that it was not normal and why we need to see what’s going on…”
After hearing her response, Holly said, “Well you do have to be safe in those situations. If you see results like that and you don’t do something and god forbid something happened, so wouldn’t want it to be that way round either, but during the journey to hospital you must’ve been panicking that something was really wrong?”
Olivia responded, saying: “Yeah, it was quite long the journey because everything’s so far away in Australia and I was thinking ‘oh am I pregnant?’ or ‘have I picked up a virus?’ and wondering how things have changed so much, and also I felt well. I didn't feel ill. I saw things online saying, ‘I bet she fainted’ but there was nothing… I was loving it in the jungle as you can see, I was really in my element and I felt healthy so I was even more confused. It was all really strange.”
On realising that she couldn’t return to camp afterwards, Olivia explained: “I was like ‘shall we go back?’ and I knew there would be Covid tests and things like that but there was a pause in proceedings there, and it was late at night and taking me back into camp doesn’t work logistically so I went to a hotel and basically as I now know the conversations went on all through the night with production obviously desperate to have me back in, but the medical team… I think it’s an insurance thing. Because they had those readings, they had to seek other party opinions and it’s a collective decision. I think they thought the readings might drop that low again and they wouldn’t be covered because it’s already been flagged up.”
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After her team hinted Olivia would be revealing the 'truth' about her exit from the show, the 31-year-old broke her silence on the matter during an interview with Mail On Sunday over the weekend.
Olivia, who is engaged to Blackburn Rovers footballer Bradley Dack, said: "I was so scared, I was like 'what the hell is wrong with me?' They couldn't give me an answer, they just told me that they had to get me to the hospital immediately.
"The results were really, really low when they put them into their reader and they consulted with another doctor off site. I had those bloods done in England before I left, and they were fine. I was confused and of course very, very worried."
Despite her not being able to return to camp, it sounds like Olivia is now in good health, so we'd love to see her on future series of the show.
I'm A Celeb airs every night at 9pm on ITV.
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