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Alan Halsall shares his verdict on I’m A Celeb campmates – from ‘wicked & outrageous’ stars to his ‘boss’ in the Jungle
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ALAN Halsall has revealed all about his Jungle campmates following his eviction from I'm A Celebrity.
The Coronation Street legend, 42, was eliminated from the jungle in sixth place on Friday night.
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But during his 21 days in camp, Alan - who plays Tyrone Dobbs in the soap - formed bonds with fellow stars including Wag Coleen Rooney and McFly singer Danny Jones.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun on Sunday in Australia hours after leaving the jungle, Alan gives us his verdicts on each of his campmates here.
COLEEN ROONEY
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“Coleen is just a very, very genuine person. You can tell she's a great mum. She's got steel right through her.
“She's got a humour about her, very Northern traditional values and morals, very similar to my own.
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“She can be quite… I wouldn't say shy, just she can be quite reserved until she knows it's her time.”
REVEREND RICHARD COLES
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“Richard, for me, was probably the biggest surprise. I didn't know much of Richard before.
“I'd seen the bits on Strictly and other things like that.
“You see his wicked humour, and the things he says are quite outrageous at times.
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“But he says it with that tongue-in-cheek, that sparkle in his eye, and again, he's got amazing stories.
“It's like he's lived four or five lives already. He's got these great tales and he tells them in the most humorous way.”
TULISA CONTOSTAVLOS
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“Tulisa was obviously my boss and leader from the start and we had our own little room at the top of camp.
“We formed this really, really close relationship up there because Tulisa liked to get involved in camp and be in chats, but also she liked her own time.
“It was nice that we had those chats together and actually hearing Tulisa's stories is incredible.
“So it was really nice to get to know Tulisa because there were a lot of times where it would just be myself and her talking in the Leaders' Lodge, so it felt very personal.”
DANNY JONES
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“Danny was just brilliant. Danny's got like all those talents.
“Like, you know, for someone like me, I'm looking at him thinking, 'Typical. He's good looking, he's a rock star, he plays the guitar, he sings amazing, he writes songs, he's funny'.
“He's the guy that you just want to go for a pint with every day. I could go for a beer with Danny every single day of the week and I would be happy, smiling, and I'd have a great night.”
OTI MABUSE
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“Oti is smiles for days, passion, love, just enthusiasm.
“The cuddles off Oti are like no cuddle you've ever had.
“She squeezes and she's in there and you can just feel that passion from Oti.”
JANE MOORE
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“Jane is a super-hard worker.
“She was up first in the morning doing the fires, super-hard worker.
“She spoke about her daughters all the time, who I know are here… that caring, motherly nature of hers, and that came across in camp.
“But also, she's got amazing stories, super-intellectual, so you could have some really great conversations with her.
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“I'm probably surprised, because you're thinking of that journalistic talent that she has of, 'Oh, am I opening up too much?'
“But there was none of that with Jane.”
MAURA HIGGINS
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“Maura has got that wicked sense of humour, that tongue, that lashing.
“We sniped back and forward at each other and we absolutely loved that.
“Probably like a big brother type thing of, you know, me saying something and her chipping back. But her humour was fantastic.”
GK BARRY
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“GK is absolutely my humour.
“Where nobody should go, GK goes. And we got on.
“Considering GK was the youngest person in camp, I believe this year, I got on with her so well.
“But that was from really early on. I kept coming out with silly jokes and she'd be like, 'Oh, my, I've got terrible dad jokes with me the whole time'.
“And our humour, I think, just completely brought us together.”
BARRY McGUIGAN
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“Barry was brilliant.
“Barry's stories, certainly about boxing, are so intriguing.
“The amazing thing with Barry is he has this unbelievable memory, like, 'Yeah, back in 1987, I was in round two and it was one minute, 30 seconds into round two'… and you're like, 'How do you remember all these crazy stats?'
“But his boxing career was so amazing.
“Even now, talking about his sons and his family - but his son's now a trainer and going through all that - is riveting to someone like me as a sports fan.”
MELVIN ODOOM
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“The coolest guy. Literally the coolest guy.
“Because there were so many big personalities in there and things like that, Melvin was chill.
“Melvin was the guy who was just sat in a corner and you could go and have a nice ten-minute chat with Melvin and he was really chilled out.
“But what a cool guy. And I'm like, 'Please teach me how to be cool'.”
DEAN McCULLOUGH
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“The only word I can use for Dean is energy.
“When he was in camp, he was up singing in the morning, dancing in the morning
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“He was like, 'BANG!' He was like a battery. He charged everybody up.
“His energy and his enthusiasm for everything… when Dean left the camp, you could feel that, because his energy was so big.”
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