Beverley Callard, best known for her role on Coronation Street, was forced to leave I'm A Celebrity... South Africa on medical grounds after a 'funny turn', according to multiple reports. The actress said she 'lost consciousness' in the Bush Telegraph, the show's confessional booth.
Four months after filming, she was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, major media outlets reported. Callard will not attend the live final on Friday night on medical advice, she confirmed on social media. The series was pre-recorded in Kruger National Park last year and will start on April 6, airing weeknights for three weeks, according to major media reports.
Yesterday, I should have flown to England to get ready for the I'm A Celeb final. I was so excited and looking forward to it but on medical advice, I can't go, I am absolutely gutted. I was dying to see them all and it would have been brilliant. I can't go and yesterday, the flights were booked and everything but no, they said, it is basically too long a day with flying there and then a very late night, so here I am. I will be watching and I will be on Zoom chatting to everybody. So I've got to make the best of a bad job but I am resting and I am doing as I am told. Thanks to everybody.
The public will have the power to decide who is crowned the 2026 winner. Callard accidentally revealed the final date as April 24, according to the Liverpool Echo. She is currently living in Dublin, major media reported.
I just watched my exit on I'm A Celeb and it made me cry all over again. Of course, I didn't know then that I had cancer but I just knew that it was the last couple of days there that I hadn't felt very well. What happened was, I went into the Bush Telegraph and apparently, I lost consciousness for a little while. I just wasn't feeling myself. They took me to a medical hut and they were amazing. They really looked after me and they said 'you can't go back'. And I said 'don't say that, don't send me home, I'll be fine'. I wanted to succeed and make it through to the end but that was the start of everything. It's made me really emotional but I will beat this. I will beat it.
I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about this yet. But you obviously know. Yep, I was shooting it in South Africa. And I can't tell you more than that.
Oh, the weather was great. But the final is on the 24th of April. So it's all still to come.
I've got something to tell you all. I didn't feel very well this morning and I had a bit of a funny turn and they've said I can't come back in I've got to go. I'm absolutely gutted. I don't want to go.