I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! export Nadine Dorries has revealed there is more to Helen Flanagan than meets the eye.
Tory MP Nadine Dorries praised Helen Flanagan in her exit interview after she became the first to be evicted from I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! (Picture: ITV)
The suspended Tory MP became the first contestant to be booted off the show last night after losing out to darts star Eric Bristow in the first public vote of the series.
During her exit interview she told Ant and Dec the former Coronation Street actress is not as ditzy as the public may have been led to believe, adding that Helen was in fact a 'very intelligent girl'.
Nadine also took responsibility for helping Helen overcome her bushtucker trial fears, adding that the actress' 12-star triumph came after she 'had a chat with her and tried to change her motivation'.
Helen is actually a 'very intelligent girl', says Nadine (Picture: ITV/Rex)
She also told the comedy duo that she 'kind of expected to be the first out' - and that the show was more challenging than it looked.
'I don't think the public understand how hardcore it is down there,' she said of jungle life, 'the effect on your body when you haven't eaten properly for days is hard.'
She added that her jungle experiences had changed her, saying: 'I actually came here slightly self-important for the first few days, but I've completely found myself.
'I would never have thought that I was like that but I realised I was. I'm not now.'
The MP lost out to Eric Bristow in the first public vote of the series - but did not look sorry to be leaving (Picture: ITV)
Dorries - whose appearance in the jungle led to criticism from MPs and her being suspended by the Conservative Party - also said that having taken part in the show she 'completely understood why more people vote on I'm A Celebrity than do in a general election'.
And today Nadine revealed on Daybreak that she was already back to work having had a makeshift office set up in her hotel room.
Nadine insists she is already back to work (Picture: ITV/Daybreak)
Speaking live from Australia this morning, she said: 'There's been an office set up in my hotel room and I've already been back at work actually.'
Defending accusations that she has not been there for her constituents, she added: 'I got out of the jungle I was straight back to work... I worked right until the second I left and I worked all the way through the summer recess.
'I actually only had four days away during the summer when other MPs were abroad for four or five weeks at a time,' she added.
Hugo Taylor pocketed nine stars for camp in the latest bushtucker trial (Picture: ITV)
Dorries found herself up for elimination along with five of her fellow campmates - Bristow, Flanagan, David Haye, Charlie Brooks and Colin Baker - after they lost out in the 'bed bugs' challenge which saw all the contestants having to sleep with jungle critters.
The other five - Ashley Roberts, Hugo Taylor, Limahl, Rosemary Shrager and Linda Robson - won immunity from the first elimination after lasting the longest amount of time in their bug-infested beds.
However she was not the first person to leave camp this year, following Brian Conley's sudden departure on Tuesday after he was taken ill.
Wednesday night's show also saw Hugo Taylor take part in the latest Bushtucker Trial, in which he had to crawl through a series of underground sewers filled with snakes, rats and insects.
The Made In Chelsea star, who admitted to being claustrophobic, told Ant and Dec: 'I can't even go on the Tube in London as I hate it so much', but nonetheless went on to win nine meals for camp.
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