JOHN Lydon quit I'm A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here! after announcing: "I don't want to turn into Des O'Connor."

The former Sex Pistol claimed last night that leaving the camp would break his heart but told Jennie Bond he had never wanted to be crowned King of the Jungle.

"I don't want it. I won't have it. I won't. That's not what I came here for, I said that right from the start. I mean it," he said.

"I live in a very different world, no disrespect to this game but I play a bigger one - or a smaller one. And I don't want to turn into Des O'Connor."

Lydon, 48, made his decision to walk out on the ITV1 reality show a few hours after Neil "Razor" Ruddock was evicted.

He told the cameras: "I can't see the point of staying with silly daft performances of Opportunity Knockout.

"It's important for the remainders, they're in it for the game.

"I'm beginning to be an irritant to them because I'm not here for that and I know they are all suspecting that I'm gonna run off with it and I didn't mean that to be the case."

He went on: "I feel wrong for staying. I'm getting in the way now."

After telling producers of his decision, he made the shock announcement to the other celebrities, hugging them goodbye before setting off over the drawbridge.

Jordan told the Bush Telegraph she thought Lydon secretly feared being evicted. "He'd rather walk himself than someone tell him to walk," she said.

Later, Lord Brocket successfully completed his Bushtucker Trial. He had to spend seven minutes in the water-filled "torture tank" with an assortment of horrible creatures.

Brocket had to spend a minute with each creature before retrieving a star.

He managed to withstand crayfish, yellow belly fish, eels, snapping turtles, water spiders, water dragons, water snakes and two salt water crocodiles.

Despite getting bitten by the eels and spiders and almost choked by a snake, he retrieved all seven stars.