I'm A Celebrity icon sues ITV after horror fall walking to the bathroom

Former supermodel Janice Dickinson has filed a personal injury case against ITV following her horror fall during the All Stars edition of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here, two years ago, which was set in South Africa. The former girlfriend of the Rocky legend Sylvester Stallone was forced to leave the jungle after she suffered a nasty fall as she walked to the long drop during the night. She ended up cutting her chin open after falling flat on her face. She was seen by the medical team on-site as a precaution and was taken to the local hospital for further tests. Following the check-up,ITVproducers decided it was best for Janice not to return to camp on the Ant and Dec fronted show but to rest up instead and focus on her recovery.

At the time, the now 70-year-old said the fall was owing to her own "stupidity". However, she has now instructed lawyers to sue programme makers ITV Studios for a substantial sum in London's High Court.

Her personal injury claim case for the May 2023 accident was filed on Monday by celebrity law firm Taylor Hampton and no further details were released.

When contacted by Express.co.uk, ITV declined to comment.

Immediately after the accident, Janice claimed that she thought sending her to the hospital had been unnecessary. In a letter to her fellow campmates, which Helen Flanagan read out following her departure, she said she felt she could have been cleaned up and sent back in.

"I could have been the one to be second runner up or even win this series because I was just so steadfast and physiological with it," she wrote.

"I was just waiting and biding my time with it all. I did my fair share of standing up and falling down. Getting my face in the dirt.

"I felt like they could have possibly cleaned my wounds and set me back on my path in there," she said. However, she added: "But production made the right decision, in the end, to not send me back in." However, she said she was "sad it ended that way", insisting she could have gone further.

Janice first appeared on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! in 2007, the year Christopher Biggins won the series. When asked how I'm A Celebrity South Africa compared with the Down Under version, she shared: "Every single person in the [South African] camp is completely, 100 per cent authentic and real in all capacities.

"There's no dodging about behind your back. What you see is what you get. When people look at me, they look at me with genuine affection."