Carl 'Foggy' Fogarty is crowned King of the Jungle in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, leaving X Factor reject Jake Quickenden as runner-up
Carl 'Foggy' Fogarty has been crowned King of the Jungle in the latest series of I'm A Celebrity.. Get Me Out Of Here!
The 49 year-old was named the winner of the 2014 competition, leaving Jake Quickenden to be runner-up in the long-running reality show.
The Lancashire-born sportsman described the win as 'the best thing that's ever happened to me'.
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Success! The World Superbike champion was by far the most well-deserving winner of the show
Good man: Foggy was a proud winner on the ITV reality show competition in Australia
Speaking about his time in the jungle, he told Ant and Dec that having friendly campmates made all the difference.
'Nobody thought they were up themselves and everybody was lovely. Ten really nice people - and I'm not a people person. Everyone was easy-going.'
Speaking specifically of his 'bromance' with Jimmy, he said: 'I got very emotional when he left. He was my best mate in there and I was gutted when he left. I thought he was a dead cert to stay in, so I fell apart like a cheap watch with the shock.'
'That was a tough morning'.
Winner! The Lancashire-born sportsman described the win as 'the best thing that's ever happened to me'
Good friends: Speaking about his time in the jungle, he told Ant and Dec that having friendly campmates made all the difference
Meanwhile, a defeated Jake was a gracious runner-up.
'I couldn't have won to a better man - he is Crocodile Dundee. he's a legend,' he said, before Westlife singer Kian Egan - who won the show, last year - performed a casual crowning ceremony.
At that point Foggy broke down in tears, much to the pride of his fellow contestants who were looking on.
Congratulations! Ant and Dec were clearly delighted that Foggy won the show, this year
Jake then added that he was simply delighted to be part of the action.
'I can't get my head around what's happened. I came off X factor and then ended up on here - people have voted for me more on here than on X factor.
'It all happened in four days so I didn't have time to think about it. It really was the best time of my life. I'm a nobody - I'm amazed I'm in the show because I'm not a celebrity'.
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Success! The World Superbike champion was by far the most well-deserving winner of the show
Good man: Foggy was a proud winner on the ITV reality show competition in Australia
Winner! The Lancashire-born sportsman described the win as 'the best thing that's ever happened to me'
Good friends: Speaking about his time in the jungle, he told Ant and Dec that having friendly campmates made all the difference
Congratulations! Ant and Dec were clearly delighted that Foggy won the show, this year
King Carl: Why viewers voted against X factor pin up Jake Quickenden again, by JIM SHELLEY
ITV will be slightly peeved that X Factor hunk Jake Quickenden lost out to veteran motorbike champ Carl Fogarty.
After all, it was no accident that he was dropped in to the jungle after the departure of Craig Charles and Gemma Collins.
With the stars from the channel’s stellar shows Coronation Street and TOWIE gone, ITV needed someone to represent it and Simon Cowell’s ratings’ behemoth on their biggest programme of the year.
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ITV will be peeved X Factor hunk Jake Quickenden lost out to veteran motorbike champ Carl 'Foggy' Fogarty, although his resemblance to Catweazle could be handy if it's planning a re-make
The strong favourite since the self-inflicted demise of Jimmy Bullard, Jake ticked all the boxes to go on and be crowned King of The Jungle: handsome, engaging, sweet natured, and safe: pretty and vacant. (Not only had he never heard of Edwina Currie, he beamed proudly ‘I don’t even know what politics is.’)
Carl Fogarty on the other hand was a more wizened, slightly jaundiced, old soul. Witness the early episodes when he had no qualms about resisting the idea of feeding the starving camp mates he had left behind in Jungle Jail, declaring bluntly: ‘wherever I go, the food goes.’ As he said he wasn’t really a team player. He also bore a distracting, disturbing resemblance to Catweazle.
No doubt Jake will still go on to reap all the rewards he would have if he had won: plenty of appearances on daytime television, some celebrity cooking, a Christmas record, and eventually, some adverts for Iceland.
Still, it will (if you’ll pardon the pun) bug him, ITV, and Simon Cowell that he didn’t win.
As to why Carl Fogarty won, it principally came down to final day’s trials.
The ordeal suffered by the strongest female candidate, Mel Sykes (searching for stars in cloudy water with a few eels etc) may have been popular with male viewers – nothing short of a wet t-shirt contest – but wasn’t daring or terrifying enough to carry her home, despite her claims about how much she hated going underwater.
Jake Quickenden’s trial involved the helmet full of creepy crawlies.
I'm sure Fogarty won a lot of last-minute votes because he was the celebrity undergoing the eating trial
You could see how much winning meant to the former Superbike champion. The voters obviously figured he deserved it
No doubt Jake will still go on to reap all the rewards he would have if he had won: plenty of appearances on daytime television, some celebrity cooking, a Christmas record, and eventually, some adverts for Iceland
‘I always wanted to be an astronaut !’ he smiled, not entirely joking.
Obviously, having 1500 cockroaches, 1500 crickets, 10 ‘burrowing cockroaches’, and 200 soldier crabs crawling around your head wasn’t fun, but most of them were scrambling up the sides to get and, asides from the odd nibble, Jake survived relatively painlessly.
None of the little critters did what is known on the show as ‘a Fatima Whitbread’ and went up his nose or down his ear.
I’m sure Foggy won a lot of last-minute votes because he was the celebrity undergoing the eating trial – which is the one we all want to see and the real reason we all watch IACGMOOH.
Having already downed a glass of deer’s blood and some other horrors in the Vile Vineyard challenge, Fogarty duly polished off a cup of mealworms (which were still alive), the anus of an ostrich (not alive), some baked tarantulas, three large cockroaches and a camel’s penis.
Yum. I mean, yuck.
He may have been the celebrities ‘Tarzan’ figure, a macho motor-biking icon, and the man who took care of the fire and other manly tasks, but you could see even Fogarty didn’t relish eating them.
Not as much as Freddie Starr had anyway. The fact he had to dance around as he swallowed them down proved that, practically pogoing at one point.
The tarantulas, he said memorably, tasted like ‘dog s**t wrapped in Kentucky,’ which probably rules out that sponsorship deal.
For those of you who are interested, he reported ‘the ostrich anus was ‘quite hard and chewy’ and the camel penis ‘had no taste to it.’
Fogarty's wife probably regrets the exuberant way she stuck her tongue down his throat before checking he'd brushed his teeth since eating that ostrich anus. A schoolgirl error
With the current vogue for exotic meat and Heston Blumenthal types in the country’s restaurants, this was a relief - especially for any camels watching.
When Ant & Dec announced that Carl had won, Jake looked slightly gutted.
‘I couldn’t have won to a better man,’ he stuttered – perhaps a sub-conscious slip as he dreamed of joining such illustrious names as Joe Swash and that bloke from either Westlife or Boyzone last year.
We knew what he meant though.
You could see how much winning meant to the former Superbike champion although his wife probably regrets the exuberant way she stuck her tongue down his throat before checking he’d brushed his teeth since eating that ostrich anus.
But after all that Fogarty had done to be King of the Jungle, the voters obviously figured he deserved it.
Gracious: 'I couldn't have won to a better man - he is Crocodile Dundee. he's a legend,' said Jake
Flirtatious by nature: Jake was a good runner-up and was grateful for his opportunity on the programme
Speaking about the women, Jake said: 'I'm naturally very flirty, but I didn't go into the jungle looking for love - but, to be honest, Edwina was my favourite. She's full-on spice'.
'I love it that people picked up the phone to keep me in here - they didn't do that with my singing, so that meant alot.
Earlier in the evening Melanie Sykes became the first finalist to be voted off the show's finale.
She's outta here! Melanie Sykes has become the first finalist to be voted off I'm A Celebrity
Speaking to Ant and Dec in a post-departure interview, she reflected on her time in the competition.
'If I'm honest I'm a bit gutted I'm not in the final because I was so close to it, but I had an absolute ball.
'It was better than I expected. I thought it would be more hellish and I wasn't sure I'd last, but it exceeded my expectations and I made some great friends.'
Sad: 'If I'm honest I'm a bit gutted I'm not in the final because I was so close to it, but I had an absolute ball.'
Final three: The news means that boy power will rule the outback, this year - with either Foggy or Jake Quickenden being crowned King of the Jungle
Speaking about her myriad Bushtucker Trials, she proved her commitment to conquering her fears.
'As soon as I started the trials I wanted to leave, but I couldn't when Jimmy did first - so i knew I had to start. I was silly cow sometimes.'
'I never once said: I'm chef, but people constantly told me how to cook. I wanted to blow my top so many times. For years I haven't been able to control my temper and count to ten, but I managed to do it in here.'
See ya! The Manchester-born performer admitted she was sad to have missed the final stage of the show
She also specified how she became very close to the men in the team.
'I really missed Jimmy and I had some tears over the men who left. That said, I really want Foggy to win. Jake's got time to develop his career, but it's Foggy who's been in there with me the longest.
'It's Foggy for me.'
Foggy, who has an MBE, is the most successful World Superbike racer of all time in terms of the number of championships and number of race wins.
He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1998 New Year Honours.
Disgusting: Foggy's final Bushtucker Trial was perhaps the worst - and involved eating ostrich anus
Boy power: Foggy proved he had plenty of boy power as he stormed the competition
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