The Coronation Street icon has been undergoing treatment for cancer while being seen leaving the ITV show on medical grounds
Beverley Callard has told fans she has been forced to miss the I’m A Celebrity… South Africa final on medical advice after being diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.
Ahead of Tuesday’s (April 21) episode of the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here spin-off, it was confirmed that a campmate had to leave the South African savanna unexpectedly on medical grounds before it was revealed that former Coronation Street star Beverley Callard was the one who informed her campmates that she was unable to stay in the competition.
She was seen gathering her fellow campmates, Beverley was seen telling them on the ITV show: “I didn’t feel very well this morning… and the medics have advised I can’t return to camp. I’ve got to go home.” With tears in her eyes she added: “I don’t want to go. I’m absolutely gutted. I wanted to finish.”
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Following the episode, Beverley, who is famed for playing Liz McDonald in ITV’s Corrie, and first took part in I’m A Celeb back in 2020 when the programme was relocated to a Welsh castle, took to Instagram to share a video message with her followers. In it, she said: “Well, I’ve just watched by exit on I’m A Celeb and it made me cry all over again. Of course, I didn’t know then that I had cancer but I just knew that it was the last couple of days there that I hadn’t felt very well.
“What happened was, I went into the Bush Telegraph and apparently, I lost consciousness for a little while. I just wasn’t feeling myself. They took me to a medical hut and they were amazing; they really looked after me and they said you can’t go back.” She added: “And I said ‘don’t say that, don’t send me home, I’ll be fine. I wanted to succeed and make it through to the end but that was the start of everything. It’s made me really emotional but I will beat this. I will beat it.”
Beverley, who publicly shared her breast cancer diagnosis in February, also captioned the post: “That was such an emotional watch… especially knowing what I know now. I wanted to prove that age is just a number and I feel so proud of what I achieved. Just got to get through this real life trial now #imaceleb.”
Now, Beverley has confirmed that she is no longer able to attend the show’s live final on Friday (April 24) after doctors had confirmed it was unsafe for her to fly from her base in Ireland to London for the programme. Sharing the news in an Instagram video, the soap star said: “Yesterday, I should have flown to England to get ready for the I’m A Celeb final.
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“I was so excited and looking forward too it but on medical advice, I can’t go, I am gutted. I was dying to see them all and it would have been brilliant. I can’t go and yesterday, the flights were booked and everything but no, they said, it is basically too long a day with flying there and then a very late night [with filming]. I will be watching.”
While not able to attend in person, she added: “I will be on Zoom chatting to everyone. So I’ve got to make the best of a bad job but I am resting and I am doing as I am told. Thanks to everybody.”
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