Northern Ireland DJ Dean McCullough has appeared in his first TV interview after leaving I'm A Celeb jungle.
On Monday on Good Morning Britain, the Radio 1 DJ spoke to Susanna Reid and Ed Balls live from Australia. On Sunday, Dean became the second celebrity to be voted out of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
Speaking exclusively to Good Morning Britain about his jungle exit, Dean said: "It feels great, I’m in a five star resort on the Gold Coast. It’s great, I feel like a winner, I feel like a competition winner, but I feel like a winner!"
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During his time in the jungle, Dean was nominated for seven trials. On his experience of the trials, and whether he eventually learned to love them, he explained: "I wouldn't say love but you do actually get used to the tension. What you don't see on telly is that it's very quiet, it's all taken very, very seriously and there's so many rules that you've got to remember and it's tense. I was the first one to get out and repeat these trials so over the week I actually got used to it.
"Now the sand one, I could not have predicted that that was going to happen. All I was told was to stand in the box with my hands on the perspex and I might be joined by things in the tomb, so yeah, I wasn't expecting that at all. But I would actually do it again, I would give it a go… Like anything you just keep doing it you get used to it, but I don't think I would say I loved the trials."
Reflecting on teabag-gate and smuggling tea bags into the jungle, Dean said: "I didn’t think it would blow up as much as it did, but it was so worth it, you can’t beat a good cup of tea first thing in the morning!"
The NI man also revealed how happy he was to be reunited with his mum. He said: "She said to me, ‘I’m so proud of you’, and she said she was glad to have me back. It's just me and my mum and we speak every single day so I've had this necklace on, I don't know whether you've seen it, but I've been rubbing it and I've been kissing it and that's me thinking of my mum.
"I did this for her just to make her proud and she's so proud – we haven’t stopped talking since I got out. We’ve had a lovely day together, we’re back together again and it means a lot just to know that her and everyone back home in Northern Ireland is on top of the world."
He continued: "So this is my Saint Christopher necklace, it’s the patron saint of travellers and she got it for me for going in the jungle so I’ve not taken it off. I had to take it off in the trials, though, maybe that’s why I did so bad!"
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