Cocaine bribes and sex
SHATTERED I’m a Celebrity babe Phina Oruche last night revealed that the show’s stars were offered secret “bribes” to pep them up.
She said desperate bosses were forced to hand out treats and energy drinks to try to sex up the worn-out and starving telly jungle stars.
And she joked that some of her fellow contestants were given drugs to turn them into livewire “Charlies”.
Giggling Phina – who played coke-snorting supermodel Liberty Baker in Footballers’ Wives – revealed last night: “With so little food, all of us were just too tired to do anything. We all were.
“It’s why people failed the Bushtucker Trials. You cannot live on just rice and beans. People just wanted to lie around snoozing.”
And she joked: “I think they were handing out cocaine to some of the stars, because all of a sudden people were laughing and running around doing head-stands.
“I think there must have been a bit of ‘charlie’ (cocaine) in the water at some point. Being a moral Christian, I wouldn’t touch it. I don’t know what the others did, though!”
Phina also admitted that her two weeks of “hell” in the jungle left her gagging for...chocolate.
And despite insisting she’s a virgin, she admitted she couldn’t wait for a steamy romp with her secret boyfriend, who has flown to Australia to be with her.
But before heading off for an orgy of food and a reunion with her mystery fella, the 31-year-old spilled the beans exclusively to the Daily Star about camp life.
Phina revealed that the stars had been too hungry to think about nookie and said she lost a stone during her time on the show.
But she said she was not at all worried about being branded a “Z-list snake” by Scott Henshall.
The Daily Star backed the big-hearted scouser’s run in the London Marathon earlier this year, which saw her raise £7,000 for charity.
But Phina said jungle life was far more gruelling, despite the bribes offered by show bosses.
She revealed: “They were always trying to bribe us to say personal things. Every night they would offer us a chocolate brownie or a coffee if we told all.
“They’d say: ‘Talk about the highs and lows of your career, give us three stories and you can have a scone.’ Only yesterday they said: ‘Have an arm-wrestling contest and we’ll give you a cup of coffee.’
“The bribes just got cheaper and cheaper. They obviously thought the show was too boring and tried to spice it up a bit, but none of us would fall for that trick.”
Phina also confessed that TV chiefs slipped them energy drinks in the hope that it would make the show sizzle.
But she added: “For sex, you need energy. And for energy, you need food.
No-one was thinking about sex. All we dreamed about was food.”
Within hours of being evicted, Phina was tucking into plates of tasty grub. She insisted: “Rice and beans are definitely off the menu! I’m sick of them.
“The minute I got out of the jungle, all I could think about was going back to the hotel and ramming a Dairy Milk down my throat. I dreamed of having a bath with chocolate and strawberries, then a burger and some Stilton cheese.
“After all that, I will have plenty of energy for sex. You can say I’m gagging for it.”
Phina shrugged off her scrap with designer Henshall, 31. After he was booted out, he hissed: “Phina is a calculating, self-obsessed Z-list wannabe. She is more deadly than a snake.”
She responded: “Well I am a Z-lister. I’m just a chick who acts. If my boyfriend or mum had said it I’d be hurt, but not him.”
Phina didn’t get along too well with some of the other celebs, either. She said Jason Donovan, 38, “never warmed to me”, Dean Gaffney, 28, was “sad” and “thinks he’s James Bond” and she had “no idea what planet” David Gest, 53, was on.
But Phina hit it off with “cool guy” Matt Willis, 23, and said she hoped Myleene Klass, 28, would win the show.
She said: “I’ve been told that they’ve shown lots of Myleene in the shower. Well, she’s a babe and I’d love her to win. If they want to show her more than us, that’s going to keep the men watching.
“As for me – there’s a season for when you want to get your baps out. That season has passed me by now.”
And she admitted: “I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into. Had I known, maybe I wouldn’t have done it. The only good thing to come out of it is that I have raised money for charity.”
