Beverley Callard has revealed she’s been forced to pull out of appearing at tonight’s I’m A Celebrity South Africa final due to medical grounds, weeks after her cancer surgery
‘Gutted’ Beverley Callard pulls out of I’m A Celeb final after medical advice(Image: ITV/Shutterstock)
Beverley Callard has been forced to pull out of the I’m A Celeb final. The actress told fans that she has been advised by doctors not to make the trip from her home in Ireland to London for the event.
Although I’m A Celebrity… South Africa is pre-recorded, tonight, one campmate will be crowned the winner in front of a live studio audience in London. However, Beverley, best known for playing Coronation Street’s Liz McDonald, has told fans she’s “gutted” she won’t be in attendance, despite having booked her flights.
The 69-year-old was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in February this year, four months after filming the ITV series. She told fans: “Yesterday, I should have flown to England to get ready for the I’m A Celeb final.”
In a video shared on her social media, the actress went on to add: “I was so excited and looking forward to it, but on medical advice, I can’t go, I am absolutely 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, so here I am.
“I will be watching, and I will be on Zoom chatting to everybody. 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.”
Captioning her post, Beverley added: “A last-minute change of plans…Absolutely gutted, but I know it’s for the best. Resting up and getting well is more important at the moment.”
Earlier this week, viewers of the ITV show saw Beverley make an unexpected departure from the camp after suffering from a “funny turn,” which she later discovered was the “start” of her battle with breast cancer.
Speaking on social media on Tuesday night, Beverley explained: “I just watched my 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.’ 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.”
Informing her campmates about her exit, Beverley said: “I’ve got something to tell you all. I didn’t feel very well this morning, and I had a bit of a funny turn, and they’ve said I can’t come back in. I’ve got to go. I’m absolutely gutted. I don’t want to go.”
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