I’M A Celeb star Janice Dickinson blasted show bosses yesterday over her “terrifying” jungle camp fall — and declared: “Those mother-f*****s let me down.”
The Sun revealed on Wednesday how the TV personality and former supermodel is suing ITV for £700,000 after suffering serious head and facial injuries.
Janice Dickinson blasted I’m A Celeb bosses over her ‘terrifying’ jungle camp fall[/caption]
She tripped in the dark while walking to the loo in the middle of the night and needed emergency medical care before having to quit.
Now Janice, 70, has accused ITV of being negligent and not safeguarding her properly during 2023’s I’m A Celebrity . . . South Africa.
And she claims execs hushed up the accident and gagged the production crew from revealing what happened.
While ITV paid her fee and medical bills, she says they initially refused to cover potentially life-saving rabies jabs and failed to call her directly when she was back in LA.
Janice told The Sun: “ITV need to take some responsibility. I was so f***ed up, my face was bloody, all cut up. It was the most frightening night of my life.
“Those motherf***s left me there bleeding in the dark for ten minutes. The guy whose job it was to watch us was negligent. ITV had a duty of care and they let me down big time. That’s why I’m suing.”
She initially said the fall was down to her own “stupidity”, but insiders said the claim began after new information emerged.
Janice has instructed celeb law firm Taylor Hampton to sue in London’s High Court.
Janice, who had originally been in the show’s Aussie jungle in 2007 before returning for the all-stars show 16 years later, recalled having to make her way from her bed in the pitch dark “from memory” at the camp, five miles from the nearest road in Kruger National Park.
She said: “For the past three nights there had been this loud squawking, like a vulture or buzzard. It was horrible and I was really scared.
“The campfire was out. Normally there would be a night-light on. I spoke into my microphone saying, ‘Hello, it’s Janice Dickinson, I’ve gotta pee’.
“But no one heard me. I walked like three steps and I tripped over a bench, flying flat on my face.
“My nose, my upper lip was bloody and my whole chin was gashed open. I also bashed my head and it came up like a golf ball.
“No one from the programme came to help — what would have happened if a lion jumped out?
“I was stuck there screaming in the dark for ten minutes before the lights came on, and it was the other campers who came to see me.”
Janice with Shaun Ryder and Paul Burrell on I’m A Celeb[/caption]
Janice said of her injuries: ‘My nose, my upper lip was bloody and my whole chin was gashed open’[/caption]
They included Olympian Fatima Whitbread and ex-cricketer Phil Tufnell.
Janice said: “Fatima walked me baby steps to the loo and then the lights started to go on in the campsite. It took a while for the camp doctor to get to me.
Janice said: “Fatima walked me baby steps to the loo and then the lights started to go on in the campsite. It took a while for the camp doctor to get to me.
“All I could feel was an intense head pain. From one to ten, it was about nine. I missed out on jobs while the scabs on my face healed. It took months to get over it.”
A source said: “Janice is looking for a substantial six- figure sum from ITV. It’s taken a very long time to come to terms with what happened. It still has an impact on her day-to-day life.”
ITV has declined to comment.
