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Nov 28 2023

Grace Dent says her ‘heart is broken’ after leaving I’m A Celebrity jungle ‘on medical grounds’ | Ents & Arts News

Grace Dent has told her fellow campmates that her “heart is broken” after leaving the set of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here early.

The restaurant critic, 50, was spotted at Brisbane Airport on Monday after exiting the ITV reality show early “on medical grounds“.

She had been due to face the bushtucker trial, Down The Tubes, in Monday night’s instalment.

Instead, Hollyoaks actor Nick Pickard read out a statement to the camp in which Dent announced that she was leaving early.

“My dear campmates, I’m so sorry to let you down. I have left the camp for medical reasons,” she said in her statement.

“My heart is broken, I have loved and enjoyed getting to know you all. You’ve held me up and it’s been a pleasure being your friend through this experience.

“Leaving you all at this stage will be one of the saddest things in my life. I love you all. Your friend, Miss Grace Dent.”

In a statement, a spokesperson said: “She has been a great campmate and will be missed by her fellow celebrities and viewers alike.”

Dent had said, before facing the Touchdown Of Terror trial, that she was struggling in the jungle.

The MasterChef star told campmate Josie Gibson last week: “I’ve had enough. I’ve completely had enough. I just want to go home.”

Dent, who has written restaurant reviews for The Guardian and Evening Standard, had been due to face the next trial, named Down The Tubes, with This Morning announcer Gibson.

EastEnders star Danielle Harold took her place in the trial as she had the next highest amount of votes from the public.

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Also in the episode, it was revealed that TV star Sam Thompson had been voted camp leader. He chose JLS star Marvin Humes as his deputy.

Among this year’s I’m A Celebrity campmates are the controversial politician Nigel Farage, First Dates star Fred Sirieix and Britney Spears’ sister Jamie Lynn.

The show has so far attracted a lower audience than last year’s series, which featured former health secretary Matt Hancock.

This year’s launch was watched by seven million people in its first week – down from a consolidated audience of nearly 12 million last year.

Ahead of entering the jungle this year, Dent said: “Everything is filling me with a real sense of dread. But I am especially dreading being really hungry because I tend to eat four or five posh meals out a week because I am a restaurant critic.”

She said she signed up for the show after “a really difficult time over the last four or five years”.

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Apr 23 2023

London Marathon record broken by Kenyan athlete Kelvin Kiptum as Sir Mo Farah bows out | UK News

A Kenyan runner has smashed the course record for the London Marathon – as Sir Mo Farah competed in the race for the final time.

Kelvin Kiptum, 23, won the men’s elite event in the second-fastest marathon in history, crossing the finish line in 2:01.27.

But he tired towards the end and missed out on Eliud Kipchoge’s world record, set in Berlin last year, by 18 seconds.

Kiptum collapsed onto the ground, exhausted, after crossing the finish line.

The surprise winner of the women’s elite race was Sifan Hassan, who was running her debut marathon.

The Ethiopian-born Dutch athlete, who is the 5,000 and 10,000 metres Olympic champion, reeled in the leaders with three miles to go and came home in 2.18.33.

Her victory was all the more remarkable after she appeared to run into difficulties just under an hour in, clutching her hip and falling behind as she stopped and stretched.

Sir Mo ’emotional’ after final London Marathon

Meanwhile, Sir Mo came in ninth in the men’s elite race, completing the course in 2:10.28.

The four-time Olympic gold medallist’s personal best for the 26.2-mile race was 2:05:11.

Spectators shouted “go on, Mo” as the 40-year-old vied to chase down the leaders in his final marathon.

Speaking after crossing the line, Sir Mo told the BBC: “The crowds, the support, it was amazing.

“I gave it my all. It’s quite emotional.”

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Sir Mo revealed his final race would be the Great North Run in September, having announced in January that 2023 would be his last year in athletics.

He had to pull out of 2022’s London Marathon with a hip injury.

Sir Mo won the first two of his Olympic golds in the capital at the 2012 Games, and retained his 5,000m and 10,000m titles in Rio four years later.

But recent years have been difficult for the long-distance runner after his failure to qualify for the delayed Tokyo Games in 2021 was followed by injury troubles.

The first British man home in the London event on Sunday was Yorkshire’s Emile Cairess, who finished sixth on his marathon debut.

Swiss star Marcel Hug won a fifth men’s wheelchair race in London, just six days after winning the Boston Marathon.

The women’s wheelchair race was won by 2018 winner Madison de Rozario of Australia, who pipped four-time champion Manuela Schar on the finish line.

Some 49,675 runners registered for this year’s race, up from the previous record of 43,199 in 2019.

This year, the marathon returned to its usual April timing after three years of the race being held in October due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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