After Bernard Tomic became the first person in I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here history to quit the jungle, controversial boxer Anthony Mundine has done just the same.
While the episode in which he utters the words “I’m a celebrity, get me out of here” will air tonight, Channel Ten and Anthony himself have confirmed the news this morning.
Former I’m A Celeb season three contestant Ash Pollard shared her thoughts on his shock departure on her radio show, 101.3 SeaFM’s Gawndy and Ash, this morning.
“He walked out of the Viper Room challenge, where you go into a coffin with a pit of snakes and you have to lie there. I did that challenge, did you see me walking out after it? No! Exactly,” Ash said.
“Nek Minnit, Anthony Mundine is bailing because he can’t handle it.”
Ash stressed how tough the jungle is but is surprised that Anthony, 42, couldn’t continue.
“I’m absolutely beside myself at this, because I think to myself, I was a 31-year- old girl in that jungle, it is hard, you cannot articulate how hard that place is, it ruins you,” she continued.
“You look at someone like Anthony Mundine and you’re like ‘oh yeah, nothing would scare him, he would do anything’, but he’s weak!”
“He’s happy to be screaming at Danny Green saying ‘I’ve won this and I’ve won that’ but he can’t even do the Viper Room.
“I think the problem with these people is that they became a celebrity at an early age and they’ve been drinking from that golden cup for too long.”
This morning, Anthony wrote on Facebook that he missed his family during his time on the reality show and achieved “everything I wanted to do”.
Host Chris Brown, however, said Anthony left after a disagreement with his rival Danny Green.
“He was down there (buried) with his old adversary Danny Green and we thought it might bring the two of them together, but in fact it appears to have torn them apart,” Chris told Nova’s Fitzy & Wippa this morning.
“We thought he had taken it (the challenge) in his stride but they’ve gone back to camp, he’s had a disagreement with Danny Green and walked out of camp.
“In typical Mundine style he has stormed out.”
The episode airs tonight.
