I’m A Celeb star leaves fans gutted as he cancels gig just hours before hitting the stage

A FORMER I'm a Celebrity star left fans gutted after cancelling a gig just hours before he was set to hit the stage.

Comedian Seann Walsh starred in the 2022 series of I'm a Celebrity and was the seventh person to leave the jungle that year.

Seann, 38, was due to play a gig in Ramsgate at the weekend but was was forced to pull out at the last minute due to sickness.

Taking to Instagram to share the news, he wrote: "I am so sorry to do this and do it so late but I can't be there tonight.

"I'm told it was sold out and I'm so gutted to let you down. I'm just too ill.

"I tried to gig through last night and it's finished me off. I'm stuck in bed."

Seann reasureed fans he will be back in Ramsgate in July next year and added: "Hope to see you all there."

He then jokingly blamed his little girl for getting him sick, writing: "If you want to blame anyone, blame my 20 month old daughter who gave me this."

Before moving into the famous Australian camp Seann took part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2018.

But - after he was caught up in a scandal when he was snapped kissing professional partner Katya Jones - Seann spiralled into depression and panic attacks, and needed therapy.

Earlier this year Seann insisted he still panics when he sees the word "stirctly".

He said: “I do not dance. What it is more actually is when you turn up to any car park or something, and it says, ‘Strictly No Parking’. I still just go, ‘Arghh’, every time I see it.

“I can hear the word — like a dog hearing something — I can just hear the word strictly and I still go, ‘Arghh!’"

He says he mistakenly returned to performing before he was ready.

Seann told comedian Russell Howard on the Wonderbox podcast: “I went back too soon — that’s for sure. You’ve got to kind of let audiences, or the public, almost let them get over it. But I wanted to kind of fight it."