Antony Cotton has finished fourth on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here.
After hosts Ant & Dec revealed the public verdict, the Coronation Street star hugged his campmates and expressed a "love" for his close friend Mark Wright.
Upon leaving camp, Cotton said that he was "absolutely gutted" to have missed out on the final of the ITV show.
"I've come this far so I'm gutted," Cotton said. "But I did what I could do and I'm amazed that I lasted that long."
He added: "You can't ever plan for it. Every part of it was emotional and exciting and I've genuinely loved every minute.
"It's at once the most liberating feeling you can ever have and then on the other side you feel like you're locked in and you can't run away."
Cotton also claimed to have been "relatively tight lipped" around camp rival Fatima Whitbread, a statement that caused Ant & Dec to scoff in disbelief.
One more of Whitbread, Wright or Dougie Poynter will be eliminated later in tonight's I'm a Celebrity show.
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:27 pm