Jamie Lynn Spears leaves I’m A Celebrity on medical grounds

Jamie Lynn Spears has left I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! on medical grounds, ITV has announced.

The 32-year-old American singer and actress, who is the younger sister of pop icon Britney Spears, lasted 10 days in the Australian jungle.

Her exit comes two days after food critic Grace Dent left the show, also on medical grounds.

A spokesperson for I’m A Celebrity said: “Jamie Lynn Spears has left I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! on medical grounds. She’s been a fantastic campmate who has triumphed at trials and bonded well with her fellow celebrities.”

Spears’ last appearance on the show will be during Wednesday night’s instalment of the programme, it is understood.

Last week, after spending a few days in the jungle, Spears threatened to quit after becoming emotional because she was missing her children.

During the episode on 21 November, she told her campmates she was finding it difficult to be so far away from her family.

Her emotions bubbled up further when four celebrities were tasked with a challenge to win the contestants’ luxury items, which involved them trying to manoeuvre long paddles together to hold up a box representing each prize.

Spears’ luxury item was a photograph of her two daughters.

EastEnders star Danielle Harold, radio DJ Sam Thompson, Dent and TV presenter Marvin Humes apologised to Spears after failing to secure the photo.

In the Bush Telegraph, a private booth where contestants speak privately to camera, Spears said: “Why would y’all put them through that?

“They feel guilty that they didn’t come back with the gifts for their friends. This is not OK. I want to go home.”

She then told her campmates: “I just went and told them, I was like ‘It’s so effed up of y’all to put them through that’.

“I was like ‘This is not fair. I quit. I don’t want to do it. I do not want to be here. That’s so unfair’.”

She added: “I just want to see my kids. Like, I’ll stay out here with these freaking critters, just let me see them. I’m just struggling.”

Her campmates comforted her and she later told them she was not going to leave the jungle early.