GOOD Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway was heavily delayed getting into Australia after being held up by customs officers because she packed too much fake tan.
The glamorous broadcaster, 52, was pulled aside by airport officials when she landed in Brisbane ahead of her I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! entrance on Sunday.
Kate said she bought the beauty products during a stop over in the United Arab Emirates to cover up her pasty body before showing it off in a series of swimming costumes in the Aussie jungle.
She said: “I bought some fake tan in Abu Dhabi as I thought best to get that tan all over every part of my body, and they wouldn’t let me through customs. I had to had it put in its own special box. I was held up by my fake tan.
“I’ve got a lot of swimming costumes. It’s quite hard as I’ve got bits of my body that I’m trying to cover up. In fact, a lot of my body I’m trying to cover up. I was looking for one that starts up here and goes down to my ankles.”
But she says she gave her GMB colleagues – including Susanna Reid and Ranvir Singh – a glimpse of the revealing outfits before she flew.
She added: “We did have a big try on session. But I haven’t brought all of them.”
Kate, who was the eighth celebrity to arrive in Australia, also said she was delighted to be so far away from loudmouth colleague Piers Morgan, 54.
She said: “I am very excited about coming to Australia. There’s quite a lot of distance between me and Piers right now.”
Kate was joined shortly after by Girls Aloud singer Nadine Coyle, 34. Nadine, who admitted she feared dying in the ITV show, said she finally gave into producers after years of trying.
She said: “I am so really looking forward to this huge challenge. I would never have tipped myself to do it. They have been asking for years and years, maybe three or four years. And then I just thought I would do it.
“My daughter is now five and I just think it would be a good thing to go and do and she will go, ‘She’s so brave’. She trusts I have everything under control and she is wrong!”
Asked about a dramatic ITV promo video where she had said she feared she could die, Nadine said: “That is absolutely the truth, it happens
all the time, not in jungles but it is dangerous.
“I am not a huge fan of rats and things like that.”
