Shaun Ryder's face swelled badly from mosquito bites when on I'm A Celebrity... in 2010
Shaun Ryder has recalled how medics came to his rescue after his face swelled up after being bitten by mosquitoes on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! in 2010.
Medics rushed to Shaun Ryder's rescue after his face was badly swollen from mosquito bites on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! in 2010.
His experience on the ITV Australia-based jungle survival show was not an easy ride as he also got bitten by a snake in a terrifying Bushtucker Trial, which saw the slithery creature wrapped its jaw around the Happy Mondays frontman's hand.
Shaun - who finished as runner-up to 36-year-old TV personality Stacey Solomon - recalled to The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column: "I got really bad mosquito bites when I was in the jungle. My face swelled so much that medics had to come to my rescue.
"I also got badly bitten by a snake. But I survived."
And the problems continued when Shaun, 63, took part in I'm A Celebrity...South Africa in 2023 - the all-stars series that sees memorable campmates from series past relive camp life and compete in gruesome challenges.
Shaun - who had his hip replaced in summer 2019 - was left in agony after his hip replacement popped out whilst he slept, but he was OK after he pushed the joint back in himself.
The Step On hitmaker - who got his show co-star, former royal butler Paul Burrell, 67, to assist him with putting his hip back in place - remembered: "My hip came out. I was down on one of the low beds. And I dived out, forgetting where I was, and my hip just went boom.
"I screamed and woke the whole camp up. And I had to stick it back in straight away. It's a titanium hip. But it just comes out."
And Shaun had to also grin and bear the pain of blisters in his mouth.
He added: "A couple of my implanted teeth were sticking into the side of my mouth, too. So I had blisters every time I opened my mouth. They really did cause me a lot of hassle.
"I think my teeth went from the crystal meth and crack cocaine."
Despite the medical mishaps, Shaun was delighted to do I'm A Celebrity...South Africa.
In 2023, he said: "I wouldn’t have swapped it for the world."
