23 November 2005
Mirror
Shamed Carol silent despite camp alert
By Nicola Methven, TV Editor
EMBARRASSED Carol Thatcher kept quiet yesterday as a heated debate erupted over who had been urinating in camp.
The other celebrities didn't know 52-year-old Carol was caught on camera relieving herself on the first night.
Producers issued a warning over "Pee Pee Gate" and told them weeing on the ground had to stop over health and safety fears.
David Dickinson exploded: "What the f***'s this? No one's not used the dunny. Get away!"
Sid Owen demanded to know who it was, telling the others: "It's unhygienic. Human urine is known to attract mice and rats, which tends to attract the snakes."
Sid then wondered if he'd done it in his sleep and confessed at the Bush Telegraph: "I'm slightly paranoid as I used to wee the bed until I was seven or eight and now you're really embarrassing me. I want to find out if I'm peeing in the night - would you tell me?"
When producers failed to answer, Sid told the camp it could have been him.
But even this wasn't enough to shake a confession out of Carol. Positioning herself next to the fire to hide her blushes, she remained silent. Jimmy pointed out his innocence in the privacy of the hut and Jilly fiercely declared it wasn't her.
Sheree said: "I can't believe whoever's doing it is sat out there brazen as you like, knowing they've been weeing."
As the boys blamed themselves, the girls stumbled across the culprit.
Jenny laughed: "It's probably Carol - hanging her arse over the side of the bed and p***ing."
Meanwhile, David's wife Lorne has revealed that her hubby prepared for the jungle by pretending to be Tarzan. Despite this, the 64-year-old was no Lord of the Apes when swinging through the trees for the celebrity chest key. Finally Sheree managed to grab it.
However, their joy was short-lived when campers squandered the chance of a treat. They wrongly decided that 51 per cent of women lied about their age rather than their weight - and their prize was a bottle of liquid algae.
