Ruby Wax has left the jungle. The 72-year-old comedian was the fifth contestant to be voted out of I’m A Celebrity on Wednesday night and he was the last person anyone expected to go.
When Ant and Dec entered camp to reveal the results, Ruby found herself in the bottom two with Lisa Riley. The people had spoken, and Ruby received the fewest votes. Her journey through the jungle lasted 18 days.
“I just cannot believe it,” she told the show hosts. “I was the queen; how can she be kidnapped?
You can literally see the shock on everyone’s face. Tom Read Wilson looked gutted. Angry Ginge appeared on the verge of tears. The camp had lost one of its liveliest souls.
Ruby’s departure now means Alex Scott, Eddie Kadi, Vogue Williams and Kelly Brook are also out of the competition. That leaves eight famous faces left in the fight for glory: Aitch, Angry Ginge, Barry McGuigan, Danny Jones, Jack Osbourne, Lisa Riley, Oti Mabuse and Tom Read Wilson.
The whole thing clearly hit her hard. “This is family, and I’m sad I lost them,” she said after leaving. “We were just a cluster of loving people.”
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She wasn’t joking about how close they’d become, either. Ruby admitted they’d shaved each other, and she’d even been checking Lisa’s bowels that morning. “Doesn’t get any closer,” she laughed.
Her time as camp leader was proper chaos. Remember that? She made Shona McGarty be her footstool, turned Aitch into her jester, and sent Shona to the telephone box for isolation. Jack Osbourne called it “pure insanity” and “the craziest dictatorship the world will ever know.”
But she got away with it. How? “The charm,” Ruby said with a grin. “I was the queen.” She even managed to scoff all the liquorice allsorts without causing a riot.
Not everyone was Team Ruby, though. Some viewers had started calling her “entitled” on social media and complaining about her behaviour towards other campmates. When she became camp leader, the criticism really kicked off. But plenty of others were shocked and heartbroken to see her go. One fan on Instagram called her “the people’s princess.”
Even Paloma Faith from The Traitors weighed in. “WTF, she was surely going to win?” the singer wrote.
Ruby had bonded particularly with Aitch and Angry Ginge. “I don’t know why I was drawn to them but we had so much in common,” she said. Though she might reconsider after finding out they’d lied about the milk bottle sweets. They claimed there were only 13 when there were actually 20. “Wait till I report that,” she said. “They still have to be punished.”
Ruby had expressed concerns about entering the jungle in mid-November. “I really don’t want to eat the food,” she had said. “I do not want to go to bed with snakes, and I refuse to be penetrated by a spider.
The American-born comedian has been a British citizen since the 1970s; she brought decades of telly experience with her. You’ll recognise her from Girls on Top, her chat show, When Ruby Wax Met my mum. …, and her mental health work that earned her an OBE. She even has a master’s in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy from Oxford.
Ruby thinks Angry Ginge is going to win the whole lot. The last episode will air on Sunday, 8 December.
She has a U.K. tour planned for 2026, Ruby Wax: Absolutely Famous, kicking off in March. You’d better believe, after eating rice and beans for nearly three weeks, she’s also looking forward to a good meal.
“I just completely forgot about the outside world,” she said. Which is possibly the highest compliment you can pay to the I’m A Celebrity experience.