I am A Movie star: Olivia Attwood was rushed to A&E after checks confirmed she was dangerously anaemic

The jungle life won’t be for everybody, however nearly every week on from her sudden, unexplained exit from I am A Movie star… Get Me Out Of Right here!, Olivia Attwood remains to be distraught. 

She needs to be sparring with Matt Hancock, and even, possibly, jostling for pole place on the ITV present she had dreamed of showing on for 5 years. 

As a substitute, she is at her Manchester dwelling, being comforted by her beloved rescue canine, Lola and Sew, after she was despatched dwelling from the Australian set, prompting a nationwide guessing sport.

One minute she was seen by greater than eight million viewers leaping out of a helicopter and cooking a stir fry with campmate Charlene White, the following she was rushed to A&E by deeply involved medical doctors and ITV workers, by no means to be seen on display screen once more.

There have been numerous theories doing the rounds. One was that Olivia’s ADHD consideration dysfunction wasn’t conducive to outback residing. She’s at all times been very open in regards to the situation, which was identified in her 20s when she was affected by acute nervousness and despair.

One other was that she could not be allowed again into the jungle because the hospital go to had meant she’d damaged a Covid bubble, and risked infecting her campmates. Then there have been misogynistic accusations that she was just too weak and diva-like to hack it. Some had been even satisfied she was pregnant.

However as we speak, in an unique interview with The Mail on Sunday, Olivia reveals the true motive she needed to go away after Monday’s broadcast – and it is nothing as dramatic because the conspiracy theorists have cooked up, though heartbreaking nonetheless.

She says a routine blood check, which all of the jungle campmates endure randomly all through the present, out of the blue and inexplicably disclosed she was dangerously anaemic. It additionally flagged up worryingly low sodium and potassium ranges, which prompted ITV workers to instantly take her to A&E.

All of which got here as an entire shock to Olivia, 31, who was, she stresses, feeling ‘completely nice’.

‘I used to be so scared, I used to be like “what the hell is flawed with me?”,’ she says in her first interview since her exit. ‘They could not give me a solution, they only advised me that they needed to get me to the hospital instantly.

‘The outcomes had been actually, actually low once they put them into their reader and so they consulted with one other physician off website. I had these bloods executed in England earlier than I left, and so they had been nice. I used to be confused and naturally very, very frightened.’

ITV workers then took Olivia, a mannequin who first discovered fame on ITV2’s Love Island, to the hospital, 40 minutes from the camp on what was final Tuesday night in Australia.

‘It felt just like the longest journey ever,’ she stated. ‘I did not know what to assume. I used to be questioning if I had picked up a virus, was I pregnant, all of this stuff had been going by way of my head. It was completely scary.’

Then, the checks had been repeated within the hospital – and got here again regular. Naturally, she assumed the primary checks had been defective and that she’d merely be allowed to return to the jungle and the campmates she was eager to get to know higher. ‘However as an alternative I used to be taken to a lodge to get some sleep whereas ITV determined what they’d do with me,’ she says.

Olivia did not assume for a minute that she would not be allowed to return, however remembers mendacity in mattress, frightened and confused as to what was happening. She had a stressed night time along with her destiny in ITV’s arms, with bosses locked in conferences as to whether or not they would let her again in or not. ‘I attempted to maintain a maintain of my feelings however it began to really feel like I wasn’t going again, you recognize once you simply get a sense? It began to daybreak on me that I used to be out for good,’ she admits.

‘However then I used to be attempting to rationalise it, there was nothing flawed with me so why would not I have the ability to? I additionally knew how a lot the manufacturing crew needed me on the present. None of it was making sense. I used to be ready for somebody to inform me.’

Olivia’s destiny was sealed when there was a knock on the door of her lodge room and an ITV producer and government entered to ship the information that her dream of profitable the jungle crown was over.

Iron deficiency anaemia could make somebody extra susceptible to sickness or an infection, whereas low mineral ranges could point out underlying well being issues. The broadcaster simply wasn’t ready to danger it.

‘They stated due to the outcomes the present’s medical crew bought from my readings, they weren’t blissful to signal me off to return again in, although I had the clear invoice of well being from the hospital,’ she says. ‘If I went again into camp, they feared my ranges would possibly drop and it might be detrimental to my well being and wellbeing. They weren’t prepared to authorise my return and subsequently I wasn’t insured.

‘I used to be completely devastated. I am not a crier however I began to cry, it was so emotional. I used to be heartbroken and gutted. I attempted to maintain my feelings in test and hold it in perspective, issues might be a lot worse.

‘Then the present’s workers advised me everybody appreciated me and I used to be favorite to win, in order that leaving felt like a punch to the intestine.

‘Simply two days earlier than, I jumped out of a helicopter which I cherished. I did a trial which I cherished. I used to be so blissful and elated. It was an excessive excessive to an excessive low. I felt empty.’

Additionally in query is whether or not Olivia will obtain her full charge for the present, reportedly between £100,000 to £125,000. ‘We have not mentioned that but,’ she says.

Since coming third on the 2017 sequence of Love Island along with her ex-boyfriend Chris Hughes, Olivia has turn into certainly one of ITV’s most necessary stars because the broadcaster strives to draw younger audiences. 

ITV shortly signed the pair up for their very own actuality present, however after they cut up, Olivia went off on her personal and now makes documentaries similar to Getting Filthy Wealthy, which investigates the phenomenon of the OnlyFans web site, which permits customers to cost for grownup content material.

However nothing may assist bosses overcome the pink tape to maintain her within the jungle.

‘It was unfixable, due to how my blood examined I would not have been insured,’ says Olivia. ‘It felt so unfair. This had been 5 years within the making. I simply wanted to get dwelling.’

Following the choice, Olivia was chaperoned to the airport by a member of ITV workers, along with her exit nonetheless shrouded in secrecy from the skin world. Whereas she appreciates ‘there are larger issues on this planet’, she stated her journey dwelling was deeply miserable:

‘I simply stared on the ceiling of the aeroplane for hours, it was very unhappy.’ By the point she was within the air, the hearsay mill had gone into overdrive, with followers determined to know why she left the present. Due to the extraordinary curiosity she was whisked by way of Heathrow Airport’s Windsor Suite – the elite lounge normally reserved for royalty and A-listers.

One among her first chores on touchdown was to have extra blood checks, which as soon as once more got here again nice.

Lastly ready to make use of her telephone, she known as her fiancé, Bradley Dack, a midfielder for Blackburn Rovers and her dad and mom. However she took the choice to delete her social media apps in an try to not upset herself additional.

She admitted: ‘Once I first bought my telephone again I noticed clips of me on the present that confirmed my little blissful face. It made me really feel actually unhappy – I did not wish to see them. I did not wish to see my entrance interview, it was a reminder of how thrilling the whole lot was simply earlier than it was taken away.’

Olivia was made conscious, nonetheless, of how the I am A Celeb viewers was speculating about her exit, a lot of which, she says, felt misogynistic. ‘I imply, I noticed on Twitter that I used to be pregnant. I am not,’ she says. ‘There’s an underlying misogynistic really feel to the rhetoric. They’re saying, ‘I guess she fainted’ or ‘I guess she was petrified of sleeping exterior’ or that ‘she did not fancy it as a result of it was raining’.

‘The explanation it was so irritating is as a result of I’m the exact opposite of that – and to make it extra irritating, individuals may see on the present that I used to be completely loving it. There was nothing I’d have stated no to within the jungle. I cherished it from the primary hour and I used to be embracing each second of it. I am a nature geek, so I cherished seeing all of the bugs, and I even noticed a kangaroo.’

Any suggestion that her ADHD had pressured her to give up was notably hurtful, she says. If something, being exterior within the rainforest, away from synthetic stimuli like caffeine and social media, would have suited her situation.

‘That simplicity is nice for ADHD,’ she stresses. As for the Covid bubble idea: ‘If that was the case, they’d have simply left it just a few days and examined me.’

Olivia cheers up when she reminisces about her brief stint within the jungle. She has some blissful reminiscences – albeit so much fewer than she’d hoped – and made some good buddies. After being voted to get VIP therapy when she first arrived, she dined with former Radio One DJ Chris Moyles earlier than spending an evening on an island with him, Boy George and tv presenter Scarlette Douglas.

‘It was a lot enjoyable,’ she says. I used to be in my ingredient and I actually threw myself into jungle life. Boy George was nice however then once I went to the principle camp I made extra buddies, I had a very beautiful chat with [retired Lioness] Jill Scott about soccer as a result of I date a participant, I did the washing up with Babatunde [Aleshe, the comedian].

‘I additionally helped Charlene cook dinner – although what you did not see on the present was that I managed to drop the meals into the hearth. I am positive if I had been there one other night time she would have advised me to not.’

Again at dwelling, she was elated to see Brad, who was ‘actually gutted’ for her, and her canine. She says she is at present doing little or no aside from getting her sleep again onto UK time. She struggles to look at I am A Movie star however did tune in to see Matt Hancock controversially enter the jungle, together with comic Seann Walsh.

She had no concept the previous Well being Secretary was going to look on the programme till she turned her telephone again on at Brisbane Airport on her method dwelling. Not like many, she was impressed by his participation and would have been excited to fulfill him for ‘some bantz’.

Olivia says: ‘Folks weren’t anticipating him to cope with it with humour, which is what he has executed. I’d have approached it with humour too. Not that any of what he did was humorous however banter would have been the least he deserves, I’d have loved that.

‘Regardless of his apparent flaws he can snort at himself which is at all times a redeeming high quality. That stated, he ought to should reply questions.

‘It is humorous to see him slimed and gunked however it is not humorous if you happen to did not get to carry somebody’s hand once they died whereas he was snogging somebody in his workplace. NHS employees are protesting to receives a commission sufficient cash to outlive and he’s out incomes cash within the jungle. That does not appear proper, does it?’

So who does Olivia assume will probably be topped king or queen of the jungle? ‘I’ve a sense Chris Moyles has an opportunity, he’s very, very humorous. Or Babatunde. I like Charlene so much as effectively. There is not an apparent frontrunner proper now however I am going for a type of three.’