She became the first celebrity voted off *I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!* this year, and now Alex Scott has delivered one of the most brutally honest exit interviews in the show’s history: she believes she was simply too boring to survive the jungle.
The former England Lioness and BBC sports presenter suspects her own life stories just couldn’t compete with the blockbuster anecdotes dished up around the campfire by heavyweights like Spandau Ballet legend Martin Kemp and comedy icon Ruby Wax.
Lionesses star Alex Scott takes a shower in the jungle in ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’
In a candid confession to The Mail on Sunday after leaving the camp, the 41-year-old admitted: “Maybe I should have shared more stories, or a bit more. There are so many big personalities – there were moments where people would be sharing stories and I’d be like, ‘Oh, I don’t feel like my stories are even worthy at the level of a Martin Kemp or a Ruby Wax.’”
Scott insists she brought plenty of laughter to camp and even crowned herself “the game’s master” of fun, but fears the edits may have painted a flatter picture. “I hope those bits came across, not just me talking about football, and that people saw the fun Alex a bit more,” she said.
Her girlfriend, singer Jess Glynne, was even more outspoken. After watching the series from home, Glynne phoned Scott straight after her eviction and later took to Instagram to slam ITV, writing: “She didn’t get to show how incredible she really is.”
The couple’s emotional reunion on the famous bridge never happened – and there was a heartbreaking reason. Jess stayed in the UK because her mother, Alexandra, suffered a devastating stroke that required emergency brain surgery. Speaking through tears, Scott revealed: “It’s been a tough time for us and her family. It was a tough decision to come into the jungle, but Jess never wanted me to step away from doing it.”
She added: “I knew there was always a possibility of her not being across the bridge if her mum hadn’t got better – or if things had been getting worse, which they have been.”
Glynne later explained on social media: “I’ve had to stay close to home. Alex would always want me to be where I’m needed most.”
From holding back her own stories to facing family trauma thousands of miles away, Alex Scott’s jungle journey turned out to be far tougher than any Bushtucker Trial – and in the end, she believes her biggest flaw was simply not being “interesting” enough for reality TV.