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‘You makes Barry proud’ – Gavin & Stacey star Joanna Page to enter I’m a Celeb jungle
Joanna Page, who played Stacey Shipman in Gavin and Stacey, has confirmed she will join the 26th series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! in Australia. She hopes to become the first Welsh Queen of the Jungle and says the experience could help her reconnect with her identity beyond motherhood.
Page, 49, is among 11 celebrities due to enter camp on Monday, including former footballer Wayne Rooney, TV personality Chloe Burrows, actor Claire Sweeney and Paralympian Ade Adepitan, who will be the show’s first contestant in a wheelchair. Her co-star Ruth Jones sent her a characteristically Nessa-style message of support, while Page said she intends to make the most of the experience. The series starts on ITV on 16 November at 21:00 GMT.
In short
- Joanna Page is joining I’m a Celebrity in Australia.
- She hopes to become the first Welsh Queen of the Jungle.
- Ade Adepitan will be the show’s first contestant in a wheelchair.
Explained simply
I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! is a British reality television series in which public figures live together in a camp in the Australian jungle and take part in challenges. Viewers follow their daily life and, in some series, vote on who stays or leaves.
Joanna Page is a Welsh actor best known for playing Stacey Shipman in the sitcom Gavin & Stacey, which she starred in alongside Ruth Jones. The programme made the fictional Barry in south Wales familiar to many viewers, and the cast’s characters remain closely associated with the town.
The series brings together people from different parts of entertainment and public life, including sport and television. Page has spoken about wanting time to reconnect with her identity beyond motherhood, while her hope of becoming the first Welsh winner gives her participation a personal dimension.