Dougie Poynter has been crowned King Of The Jungle after beating odds-on favourite Mark Wright to win winning this year’s I’m A Celebrity.
The 24-year-old McFly bassist was stunned as Ant and Dec announced the result last night in front of an estimated 12 million viewers.
“I’m lost for words. My mouth is so dry. It’s been the best couple of week in my life.” said Dougie. “I’m so stoked, I’m gobsmacked, my head is just spinning a million miles an hour.”
He then screamed: “I’m the king, I’m actually a king!”
After strutting down the jungle walkway, he was greeted by his jubilant McFly bandmate Tom Fletcher and they celebrated in style.
Despite being runner-up, TOWIE star Mark, 24, was a gracious loser and full of praise for his new found best buddie.
He said: “There couldn’t be a bit winner. He’s the nicest, kindest person in the whole wide world. He deserves every minute of it.”
During their joint interview before finding out the winner, Dougie admitted he was surprised to have ended up in the final at all.
He said: “I didn’t do anything, I felt like I just chilled in my hammock the whole time.”
Mark added: “It’s the most amazing experience of my whole life.”
When asked about a potential romance with stunning Aussie glamour girl Emily Scott, Mark said: “Emily’s a very good looking girl and a lovely girl to be around. We’ll see when she gets out. She can come to Essex, we can hang out, everyone can come to Essex.”
Dougie was announced the winner after the pair went head to head in their final Bushtucker trial “The Final Party”.
They each had to eat a disgusting drink, starter, main course and dessert made of weird jungle concoctions, which would be worth a tastier alternative back at camp if they were successful.
Mark started off the trial by drinking blended cockroaches, which left him retching.
Dougie didn’t even wait to hear from Ant and Dec about what he was drinking and quickly downed a ‘bloody scary’ of blended emu liver.
He said: “It wasn’t that bad it tasted like blood and liver yeah.”
For the starter, Mark struggled to eat a ‘beachworm bruschetta’, which featured two alive beachworm which were so chewy and wriggled in his mouth.
After finally swallowing them, he said: “That was worse than the drink.’
Dougie nearly threw up after eating his starter of ‘sushi degrotto’ – made of a witchetty grub.
Mark decided to change his approach and imagine his main course of cricket crudité’ – a king cricket served with vomit fruit dipping sauce – was Peking duck.
After swallowing it, he declared: “That was horrific it tasted like… sick.”
Dougie struggled to eat his main course Dim Bum – an ostrich’s anus – and had Mark providing support by saying: “It’s just a bit of meat, eat it like it is a bit of meat sitting here like we are having a Chinese meal.”
Finally, Mark’s dessert was fish-eyed oysters, which he had to chew a lot on the optic nerve.
But Dougie ended up with one of the foulest dishes – a bush pig penis chopped into sections.
As he chewed on one of the sections, Dougie cried: “Penis tastes so bad!”
However he came through the ordeal which meant that the pair could gorge out on the dinner of their choice.
They eventually agree on a starter with one garlic pizza bread with cheese andlasagne. For mains they requested one extra-large deep pan extra cheesy pizza with half chicken, sweet corn and onion on the other half meat feast. For the second main they requested a large spaghetti with big meatballs Bolognese and cheese. For dessert they requested a tower of chocolate brownies with vanilla ice-cream and chocolate topping and for the other dessert a large sticky toffee pudding with caramel ice-cream. And just to top it off they request for their drinks one large Snickers and Mars milkshake and an Oreo’s and cookies milkshake.
They managed to eat the lot!