Lisa Riley cries after tackling rat fear
Lisa Riley broke down in tears as she attempted to overcome her fear of rats before heading into the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! camp.
Lisa Riley broke down in tears as she attempted to overcome her fear of rats.
The Emmerdale actress is taking part in the new series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! and before going into camp, she has taken measures to help feel more comfortable with the potential challenges she'll face in the jungle.
The 49-year-old star shared a video to Instagram in which she could be seen shaking before allowing the rat to scuttle up her arm and onto her shoulder.
She exclaimed: "He's in my neck! He's like a scarf that moves!"
Scared Lisa then closed her eyes as another rat climbed onto her other shoulder, before bursting into tears.
She noted: "You've got to think that it's not what it is. Does that make sense? I’m thinking it's like a toy is on my shoulder."
Meanwhile, Lisa recently admitted she thinks her late mum Cath - who died from breast cancer in 2012 - has been urging her to do the show.
She told the Daily Mirror ahead of I'm A Celebrity... kicking off on ITV on Sunday (16.11.25): “It’s been lovely just talking about my mum and how proud she would be.
“I can’t help feel that maybe it is my mum in heaven giving me a message to do the show.
“She would be saying, ‘Go on, knock them dead and just have a laugh’.”
The pair had spoken at least 10 times a day before Cath’s death and the loss remains raw for Lisa, who added her mum “would be gleaming at the prospect of me doing the jungle”.
She said: “I can also imagine her sat there at nine o’clock in front of the TV, being worried about me.”
Lisa lives in Yorkshire with her fiancé, musician Al, and says she has accepted camp life will be tough on I’m A Celebrity.
She added: “I love looking raw on TV… I am not a vain actress. And if anything, I am the other way.
"People will see that I am going to look like an absolute minger, and I will embrace that, because that is the truth of it.
“I just want to enjoy myself and have a right good giggle and probably get covered head to toe in sheep guts while I am doing it."
