I’m a Celebrity runner-up Tom Read Wilson breaks silence over Angry Ginge win

The Celebs Go Dating star admitted he would have felt awful taking the crown

View 2 Images

Tom Read Wilson was this year’s jungle runner-up(Image: ITV)

I’m a Celebrity runner-up Tom Read Wilson has broken his silence over Angry Ginge’s jungle win that has made history. It had been three long weeks for the stars of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, but the end arrived as the three finalists crossed the bridge and escaped the jungle.

Former EastEnders actress Shona McGarty, Celebs Go Dating star Tom Read Wilson and content creator Angry Ginge sat across from Ant and Dec as they awaited to be crowned. Shona was first to walk across the bridge, as she admitted: “My anxiety has been up and down for as long as I can remember but I have learnt a lot about myself in here and it has been a healing process for me in here.”

She then added: “In real life, I’m going to handle things a little easier now.”

Ahead of announcing the winner, hosts Ant and Dec revealed they’ve received the highest number of viewer votes in 10 years. Reacting, Ginge said: “I don’t think I can swear still, can I? I feel amazing.”

All the stars have since returned back to luxury and rinsed all that jungle grime off them, and even though some viewers were hoping for Tom to win, the star admitted the correct decision was made.

View 2 Images

Ant and Dec congratulated Angry Ginge on his win(Image: Instagram)

Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Tom said: “I have to say, I thought Ginge had to win, not only because his time had been so stretchy, I mean he did the whole stint, which must have left him absolutely threadbare. But also because he was the titan of the trials, he’d go out and you’d know that he’d come back with half the astral plane, and I just felt that in every conceivable way, he was so richly deserving.”

Reflecting on him being so close to claiming the crown himself, he added: “I think I would’ve had a great pang of guilt if I’d pinched it from him to be honest.”

Asked what he would be doing after the final, Tom said: “I so like having lots of sandboxes to play in, and I love writing, I love treading the boards, I love doing little bits of presenting. So I think if it could be a sort of vast and varied a panoply as I could possibly conjure, that would make me happy.”

The 2020 Celebrity Mastermind champion went on to say that being “flanked” by TV presenter Vogue Williams, when the pair came into the show as late entrants, had made the show easier for him. Vogue didn’t reach the final, and was voted off following exits from footballer Alex Scott and comedian Eddie Kadi who were two of the first to leave.

He added: “That was great, because we were both very, very fretful, and I think when we realised how fretful the other one was, we thought, ‘Oh, well, we’re a fretful duo’, which makes it never quite so bad.”