I’m a Celebrity South Africa: Carol Vorderman stifles laughter as Fatima Whitbread fumes about contraband
‘It’s a bit of contraband, isn’t it? It’s not life and death,’ presenter said
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Your support makes all the difference.I’m a Celebrity… South Africa star Carol Vorderman was unable to contain her laughter at Fatima Whitbread’s serious response to camp rules being broken.
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During Thursday (27 April) night’s episode, Amir Khan won a whopping 10 stars in his trial, which should have led to a meal for the camp.
However, the meal was put at risk after it was revealed that a number of the campmates had snuck contraband items into the camp.
Gillian McKeith and Myleene Klass both brought salt with them, with McKeith additionally bringing in 85 teabags in her bra and pockets. Paul Burrell also brought coffee, with all items having to be surrendered in an amnesty box.
Olympic athlete was unimpressed by her fellow campmates bringing in the items, saying: “I don’t agree with people being let off the hook.
“Rules are the rules. It’s the principle,” she said. “The rules are the rules, and they’ve been broken. It shouldn’t go unpunished. Whether we like it or not, we’re all in it together… It shouldn’t go unpunished.”
Speaking in the interview hut, Vorderman reasoned: “Fatima’s come from a world where people she was competing against were drug taking... back in the Eighties and all of that.
“I get it, but I don’t know,” she continued, before stifling a giggle. “It’s a bit of contraband, isn’t it? It’s not life and death.”
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