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HE was the first political figure to camp in the I'm A Celebrity jungle. But former Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Öpik has been unable to use his diplomatic skills to heal his own 14-year-long reality show feud. Lembit, 59, appeared in the 2010 series alongside the likes of Stacey Solomon , Shaun Ryder , Alison Hammond and Bond girl Britt Ekland.

But it was a well-spoken veteran actor that gave Lembit the biggest headache after his stint in the Australian wilderness. In an exclusive chat with The Sun on behalf of instantcasino.com , Lembit said: "The ones that annoyed me the most were some of the celebrities, like Nigel Havers, who walked out because he couldn't take the heat and spent the last decade rubbishing me.



"We've not been on each other's Christmas lists since 2010. "Yeah, Nigel Havers was two-faced. He pretended to be my friend.

I only realised what he really thought when I saw the show after I came out. He considered me to be mad, but frankly, I was making his tea for him. "I was his tea boy.

And the gratitude I got shown was to him for him to stab me in the back when he came out. That's regrettable, and I would point out that I outlasted him in the jungle, and as far as I'm concerned, I win. "Nigel, you keep trying, but you can never take that away from me, Nigel.

You walked out of the stage." In 2018 Nigel, 72, joked on Good Morning Britain that he would have killed Lembit had he not quit the show. The former Coronation Street star said: "If I'd stayed there I wou.

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