Bye-bye Ribeiro and Rebecca: Alfonso and Adlington get their marching orders

 
6 December 2013
The Weekender

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There was a double-eviction last night as Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star Alfonso Ribeiro and Olympic gold medallis Rebecca Adlington were voted out of the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! jungle.

Riberiro claimed to be glad to have been voted off the show as he and Adlington became the sixth and seventh contestants to be voted off the show.

He said while barely surviving several earlier eliminations gave him a false sense of hope, he was ready to leave. "I almost lost it back there," he said.

"I'm so ready to see my wife and [son] AJ - thank you for finally giving me my wish."

Riberio said he had been in the bottom two contestants almost every week.

"I'd finally gotten to that place where I figured I was going to be there until the end, so I was upset, but I was like all right, here it is. I can't change it at this point so let me just keep a positive mind," he said.

Before the elimination, the contestants took on some of TV's most familiar faces to win tickets to a hot tub party.

A television was brought into camp so the celebrities could compete with names including Davina McCall, former Spice Girl Mel B and Peter Andre.

Fashion designer David Emanuel was first up to see who could hold a note the longest and outsang McCall, but Lucy Pargeter flopped in a hula-hoop challenge against former Pussycat Doll Ashley Roberts.

The Emmerdale actress protested about her pop star rival, saying it was not a "fair" contest but did not mind when she lost.

She said: "I don't like hot tubs - they remind me of warm wee wee in a bath. No one can do it, I've never been able to hula hoop so I'll take one for the team."

Adlington also lost out when she took on Loose Women host Janet Street Porter to see who could unravel a roll of sticky tape most quickly, but Ribeiro restored some pride when he beat Dermot O'Leary in a spinning-around-on-the-spot competition.

Reality TV star Joey Essex and model Amy Willerton won their own individual challenges but failed as a pair when This Morning hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield beat them in a balloon-popping contest.

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