RUNNER-UP Owen Warner has revealed that Boy George and Babatunde Aleshe saved him from a jungle breakdown.
Owen, who lives in Liverpool – 118 miles away from his family in his hometown of Leicester, described how he struggled without speaking to his mum Polly.
“It was absolutely horrible, I am never going to let that happen again, I don’t even want to let an hour pass.
“I spoke about her more than food and that is saying something!
“My mum and I are so close and the fact that I didn’t have her there with me…”
In his first interview since leaving the I’m A Celebrity camp, the Hollyoaks hunk, 23, told The Sun that hearing Boy George and Babatunde Aleshe discuss their emotions prompted him to open up.
He said: ‘To be told you have got to stay in one place, you can only eat a certain amount of food and you can’t talk to anyone but the people around you – it hits you.”
“If you are in a low place and you don’t share that with people you could end up in a bit of a pit – and that is what I almost did.”
He added: “It was only when I heard Baba talking to George saying that he had been feeling like that, I was like: ‘Mate, I have been feeling like that as well.’
“That moment alone taught me so much.”
