I’m a Celebrity final – as it happened: Jill Scott wins with Owen Warner taking second place
Matt Hancock finished the competition in third place
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Your support makes all the difference.This year’s instalment of I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here has finally come to an end.
The final episode of the hit ITV reality show’s 22nd season aired on 27 November on ITV and streaming on ITVX.
After Mike Tindall was voted out the jungle in the penultimate episode, just three contestants remained: ex-England footballer Jill Scott, actor Owen Warner and disgraced Tory MP Matt Hancock.
Hancock’s involvement had been one of the main talking points of the series, after the controversy-struck former health secretary was announced as a surprise contestant shortly before the series aired.
However, it was Scott who emerged as the bookies’ favourite to be named Queen of the Jungle, with the former athlete standing at 2/9 to win the whole series.
After two years in which the production was relocated to Gwrych Castle, Wales, as a result of the Covid pandemic, I’m a Celebrity migrated back to its usual Australian location for the 2022 series.
As usual, the programme was hosted by Ant and Dec.
Saturday’s (26 November) episode saw the popular Celebrity Cyclone round return, with Hancock, Tindall, Scott and Warner all donning superhero costumes to brave the watery obstacles.
The episode also saw Hancock accused of a surreptitious tactic to try and encourage more votes, which didn’t escape the notice of Tindall.
Find everything else you need to know about the latest series of I’m a Celebrity here, and the official cast photos here.
Or you can click here for a breakdown of how much this year’s I’m a Celebrity contestants were reportedly being paid.
The Independent live-blogged the final. Follow below for all the updates from the episode as they happened.
Going to re-bump this from earlier: Roisin O’Connor’s well-argued comment about our collective inability to move past Seann Walsh’s Strictly scandal.
Our fixation on Seann Walsh’s Strictly scandal is the height of hypocrisy
Four years on from the biggest scandal ‘Strictly’ has ever known, we still haven’t moved on. Roisin O’Connor questions whether our refusal to let Seann Walsh move on with his life is a symptom of our own moral complex about cheating
Seann provided us with some great moments during his stint on I’m a Celeb, of course.
Perhaps the best was right near the end – his uncanny impression of Michael McIntyre.
Come to think of it, Mick Mac would be a pretty good contestant for the jungle in 2023...
Seann Walsh stuns I’m a Celebrity viewers with ‘spot on’ Michael McIntyre impression
‘Why did Seann sound more like Michael McIntyre than Michael McIntyre?’
One more time, for those at the back:
Here are the odds for the final.
I’m a Celebrity odds: The favourite to win tonight’s final
ITV competition series is back – but who will be named King or Queen of the Jungle?
Bit of a time capsule this one...
Jessie Thompson wrote this a month ago imagining what a Matt Hancock victory would look like, at a time when the notion sounded positively farcical.
What will happen if Matt Hancock actually wins I’m a Celebrity?
Jessie Thompson has devised a step-by-step plan for the widely mocked MP if he wins this season of ‘I’m a Celebrity’, from bagging an ASOS deal with help from Ekin-Su’s agent, to chatting with Rita Ora on his own podcast
People we are just *10* minutes away from the final of I’m a Celebrity 2022!
Who’s been voted off of I’m a Celebrity so far?
Narrowly missing out on tonight’s grand final is ex-rugby star and son-in-law of the Princess Royal, Mike Tindall, who got booted on Saturday night’s episode.
If you need a refresher on all the campmates who’ve fallen so far, here it is...
An ex-footballer, a soap star and an MP walk into a jungle... who’ll be the last out?
In about an hour and a half, we’ll know the answer...
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