Alex Scott Fears Jungle Separation from Girlfriend Jess Glynne

She’s set to spend at least two weeks in the Australian outback while she competes on I’m A Celebrity. 

And Alex Scott has revealed that she fears being apart from girlfriend Jess Glynne for so long before the singer is there to greet her on the Jungle bridge when she leaves. 

Speaking to Daily Mail she said that it’s the longest the pair have been apart from each other since they started dating in 2023, confessing: ‘It’s going to be a test for both of us’. 

The former Lioness also revealed why they waited so long to make their relationship public when they started dating.  

She said: ‘From the start, we were very guarded and private because we wanted to get to know each other and figure out ourselves before it was out there for the world.’

On what she’ll miss about Jess, she continued:  ‘Her cooking pasta for me is absolutely everything. Those quiet moments when your life’s a hundred miles per hour, just coming home and she loves to cook and we love to sit and have a glass of wine.’

Alex continued: ‘I’ll most probably be watching football in the background. But yeah, I’m definitely going to miss that, especially when I’m so hungry.

‘And that’s most probably all I’m going to be thinking about is “Please, can I just have Jessica’s pasta right now?”’

The pundit also said she is going to find it ‘tough’ on I’m A Celebrity as she now has ‘big armour up’ due to ‘how the public perceive me’.

Alex received a torrent of racist and sexist abuse from online trolls when it was rumoured she would be replacing Sue Barker on the Question of Sport in 2020.

She mused: ‘For me, opening up is going to be the tough part.

‘I’ve always been so guarded and had this big armour up as a way of protection and not letting people in.

‘I think I’ve managed to let it down over the years but I feel like, over the last couple of years, my armour’s come back up again because of how the public perceive me on certain things or shows.’

Predicting what she will struggle with most during her Jungle stint, Alex said ‘not being able to have me time’ or ‘being able to go home at the end of the day.’

She said: ‘I’m actually really quite shy, which people around me know but I think people have a perception of me when you work on TV, you’re the most outgoing, loudest one in the room.

‘I think my challenge is going to be trying to come out of that shyness amongst a group of big personalities.’

Lionesses tend to be a favourite among the show’s fans, wtih Jill Scott, 38, going on to be crowned Queen of the Jungle in 2022.

Ahead of I’m A Celebrity’s launch show on Sunday, Alex, AngryGinge, Ruby Wax, Lisa Riley and Jack Osbourne were spotted completing their first trial. 

Greeted by the ITV show’s longtime hosts, Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, the group met at the luxury private retreat, Rivermead Estate, to endure their first taste of I’m A Celeb life.

Contestants were made to put a glass bowl over their head with snakes inside to fight for a seat in the luxury Getaway Car that will ensure them comfortable beds in camp.

The three losing celebrities found themselves in the Coco Van, a disgusting bus filled with fish guts driven by Kiosk Kev, and will not get camp privileges when they arrive.

Despite completing the trials that determine their place in camp, they will not actually enter the Jungle until Saturday.

According to eyewitnesses, the trial was scuppered by heavy rain and thunderstorms that have rolled in over Australia’s Gold Coast, and the filming process took several hours.

It comes after the remaining five contestants, Spandau Ballet guitarist, Martin Kemp, model and actress, Kelly Brook, rapper Aitch, comedian Eddie Kadi and former EastEnders star Shona McGarty, parachuted down to a beach from helicopters for their trial yesterday.

After successfully jumping from individual helicopters, the group danced in a huddle on the beach as they celebrated their early achievement on the reality show.

Hosts Ant and Dec were stood above on the headland and waved down to the latest batch of campmates following their daring feat.

As the new campmates made their arrival, Ant and Dec stood a safe distance away on a stack of yellow crates on the headland – but did not directly speak to the group.

Picked up by the helicopters from Surfer’s Paradise earlier in the morning, the whole ordeal for the celebrities took more than four hours to film as their helicopters were seen circling the National Park for a significant amount of time before.

The celebrities then had to complete a series of challenges in the bush, the losing three were taken away in a battered old car ITV have coined the Cocko Van.

I’m A Celebrity starts on Sunday but the weather on the Gold Coast is concerning as rain is forecast for the next three days, ensuring the celebrities will be greeted by a wet camp.

For years, I’m A Celebrity was a show that prompted debate among viewers with controversial figures such as Nigel Farage and Matt Hancock as star signings.

But last year I’m A Celebrity went for a more tame line-up such as Coleen Rooney and McFly frontman, Danny Jones, as the most famous faces after a strict ‘no politician’ rule was implemented.

It was, as a result, a year that passed with little to no drama.

But now, in what is set to be the ‘toughest’ year yet, ITV bosses have introduced new measures to ensure celebrities ‘fight more’, ‘earn their keep’ and ‘don’t sit back in the shadows’.

It can be revealed the ‘luxury item’ feature, in which loved ones send them home comforts such as pillows with their family’s faces on, has been removed so celebrities are ‘kept on their toes’. 

Instead, celebrities can earn a framed picture of someone of their choice, which can be earned during a challenge.

The show’s executive producer, Olly Nash, told the Daily Mail: ‘It’s a tough and gruelling show, and there’s nothing wrong with driving that home.

‘We need to see more celebrities earning their keep, that’s the most important thing.

‘We have more celebrities taking part in the trials than we ever have before, so it’s more of a competition.

‘Last year, we had a great positive happy cast that all joined together and had a happy time. This year they are going to have to fight more, earn more and play a bigger part in camp.

‘No longer can they be just sitting on the beds in the back, they are going to have to step up to the challenge and face the music.

‘And there are a few celebrities in this year’s camp that are sure to get niggled if they’re hangry or sleep deprived.’

This year a new feature referred to as the Getaway Car has been introduced at the launch show.

The first ten celebrities are split into two groups, the first two in each group to complete a series of challenges including wading through fish guts are rewarded with a seat in the Getaway Car with a glass of fizz that will take them into camp.

They are then greeted by more comfortable beds in the camp with mattresses.

Meanwhile, the remaining three from each group travel in a less desirable vehicle, referred to as the Coco Van.

Pythons are said to have infested the I’m A Celebrity jungle as producers admit they have seen ‘more snakes than any other year in camp than any other year in the show,’ said Mr Nash.

He added: ‘I have seen more snakes in this build phase then I ever have done before, huge great pythons almost as long as this log.

‘I have seen loads of snakes, six or seven out just in the last two weeks and that’s when there have been people here, which is rare because usually they scatter when people are building the camp.’

It comes after the Daily Mail revealed a new rule, introduced after 25 years of the same format, that if a celebrity has been put forward for two trials in a row, they are exempt from the following public vote.

Fans are happy about this shake-up after the situation got out of control last year when Dean McCullough was voted for seven Bushtucker Trials in a row.

Sharing their thoughts on X at the time viewers called for a ‘trial limit’ as it was ‘not funny seeing Dean do another trial, too much airtime, give others a chance, it’s killing the show.’

Bosses at the network have complied and now all the celebrities will have a chance to take part in the trials, earn stars for the camp and, in turn, win the public’s vote – but bosses are going to make it harder when it comes to day-to-day life in the camp.

For example, if a contestant wants a bath, two campmates have to cycle on a tandem bike to pump water out and there is less room for contestants to sink into the shadows.

I’m A Celebrity launches on Sunday at 9pm on ITV and ITVX