I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! 2 - John Fashanu

John wins second place

John won second place in I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! but along with King Phil, he was the only celebrity to stay in the camp throughout the series.

The Log Bog

Fash suffered for his sixth bush tucker trial on the final day - and he had to balance on a revolving cylinder over a muddy bog and grab five stars within three minutes.

"I know you can't swim," Crocodile Dundee reminded us.

John grabbed one star but then fell in the bog. He got back on the cylinder and grabbed two more stars but fell in again.

He then got the fourth and fifth stars, falling in for the third time - but within the time limit.

The group had earned themselves a full three course meal - with two of the courses cooked and prepared for them.

The Eel Helmet

"It's called eel hemet. What do you think?" said the voice.

"I don't think that means happy days," said John. "Oh bollocks!"

"It's a fish Fash," said Linda, advising him that although an eel might look like a snake, it was not one.

"This is a silly one," said John to Ant and Dec.

John put a snorkel into his mouth inside the eel helmet. The water started to splash into the helmet along with a few goldfish to get John used to the trial to come. The clock started and more water and eels then splashed into the helmet.

As the time passed by more and more water and eels were dropped in. John survived the two minutes and won four meals. John's head came out and the eels and goldfish dropped to the ground.

John said: "That's hell. The water was ice cold."

Ant and Dec sent John off back to the camp - until Crocodile Dundee stopped him to give him some oxygen.

"Whoever thought of that I'd like to meet in a dark alley," threatened John.

He arrived back at the camp to be greeted with a kiss from Linda.

Dec told us unconvincingly that no eels were hurt during the filming of the stunt. What? They had just fallen five feet onto the ground.

Keep It In Your Pants

The celebrities themselves voted for John to do the first bush tucker trial.

He had to make his way to the bush tucker trial clearing crossing two scary rope bridges. It looked as if he would never make it - the rope bridges was scarier than some of the bush tucker trials in the last series.

When John finally made it to the cleating Ant and Dec explained that he had to pour a series of creatures into a see-through plastic pair of pants to win stars and meals for the camp. He had a a pair of black lycra shorts on underneath to protect his modesty. "It's a nightmare!" he reacted.

John then started to tip the container with mealworms about five degrees but could not muster the courage to increase the angle and pour the beetles into his pants. The container returned to the vertical again. He repeated the exercise six or seven times before finally finding the courage and tipping the mealworms down his pants screaming: "Arrgh!" After all that he had won one star and one meal.

Ant explained that the crayfish in the second container all had small pincers. John tipped them down his pants followed by stink beetles, night crawlers, bush cockroaches, a Goliath stick insect and crickets.

The Bridge of Doom

Viewers voted for John to do a second bush tucker trial on Thursday. And the viewers had chosen the one celebrity who had a phobia for heights.

John would have to collect five stars hanging on the Bridge of Doom, a flimsy and wobbly rope bridge with widely separated rungs to step on. But he did have a harness attached in case he should lose his grip.

John was warned: "There are a few little surprises on the way!"

Then one of the side supports fell away - and so did one of the stars. Then the other side support fell away as well. And then the whole bridge collapsed and John had to clamber up the rungs to get back to safety. But he did collect four stars and therefore win eight meals for the group.

"It's hard," he said. "There were a lot of surprises."

John returned to a hero's welcome.

But this is what Antony thought: "He's a natural leader but he can't lead all the time. He's a bit like Tony Blair, a bit of a nanny. He's a bit like an old woman really. He's almost taking it too seriously."

The Snake Pit

Viewers decided that John would have to do a third bush tucker trial on Saturday, searching for stars in a snake pit.

Antony told him that if he didn't get any stars he should bring back the snakes.

John admitted that his fear of snakes was even greater than his fear of heights.

When he arrived at the bush tucker clearing he was told he had to find ten stars in a pit containing 20 snakes. They were not poisonous but all could bite.

When John stepped into the pit two snakes reared up and hissed at him. He got two stars but most of them were hidden under the sand. One snakes wrapped itself round his leg and in three minutes he only found four of the stars.

Bobbing for Stars

TV viewers voted for John to do yet another bush tucker trial.

Catalina told him: "That's because you're so good."

Toyah said: "I can't tell you the sense of relief when he's chosen."

Linda added: "I think it's wearing him down and I think, perhaps, that's what people want to see."

John had two minutes to take a star out of each of ten containers. John was told that some of the creatures could bite and some could cling onto his face.

The first container was full of gooey fly pupae. John needed just a few seconds to get the star. The goo stuck to his face.

John then had no trouble with the boxes containing mealworms, leeches, rhino beetles, red-claw crayfish and goliath stick insects. He had six out of six possible stars.

He took some time getting the star out of the box with orb spiders. Seven.

The next box had some bush rats inside. Ant advised us: "A bit of a smell coming out of that one."

John said: "Oh god, it stinks." Eight out of eight.

John was warned the eels in the ninth container could bite. One eel went for his face. The star was upside-down and John could not turn it over or take it out.

The last container had a mountain bushtail possum. John got the star earning nine meals out of a possible ten.

John's advice

Chris said he was not in a permanent relationship.

John advised him: "When you meet the right one you'll put your head right in there."

Wimbledon wimp threatens to quit

The I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! team got a rude awakening when they arrived in Australia to be told it is raining at the camp. Upon hearing the news John said: "Rain? Cold? You're joking? I thought this was Australia, I thought it was hot here.

"What's going on? If it goes on like this I'm going to leave.

"Now it's wet and it's cold it's a whole different perspective. I'm actually horrified. I brought my boxer shorts. Bear in mind when it rains everything from the lagoon water comes up - monsters and all sorts of ants and insects and horrible things."

The former Wimbledon footballer also fears snakes might stop him becoming King of the Jungle. "I'm petrified of them," he said.