ITV I'm A Celeb's Frankie Dettori on being booted out – and what he thinks of Sam Thompson
04.12.2023 - 20:23
/ ok.co.uk
I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! star Frankie Dettori has insisted he still feels like a winner - despite leaving the jungle in the first eviction vote off.
The 52 year old jockey was slightly surprised to be first past the post when it came to leaving, aside from Grace Dent and Jamie Lynn Spears who quit the camp on medical grounds last week. In his first in-depth interview since leaving camp on Sunday night, 3 December, Frankie blamed the show's editing for his early exit, but said he had no regrets.
Referring to entering the show on Day five as a latecomer, he said: "Everybody had already bonded for four days. So I'm, you know, the new kid who arrived in a new school afterwards. "It took a while to break the ice and be accepted to get to know everyone, I'm not going to lie about it.
I have to go round one by one and really, you know, apart from Nigel [Farage], I never met anyone. So that was a slow process. "And you don't see what is edited on TV.
And speaking to my wife, she said, you know, I had very little airtime and I thought I had done a lot. "It all depends how it is edited to the programme. But you know what? To me I have come out of there as a winner.
I challenged myself. I passed every challenge. "And, I like to say it could have been two weeks or three weeks, it wouldn't have made no difference.
I just felt like I did everything I wanted to achieve and I'm very proud of what I did. Going to the jungle it's not a race when you are actually in control. "It's the public in control.