FORMER Radio One DJ Mike Read became the first celebrity to get the boot from the jungle camp last night in ITV's I'm A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here!

The voting public ousted the former Pop Quiz presenter after eight days in the Australian outback, leaving the remaining nine to battle it out.

Former BBC royal reporter Jennie Bond, 53, and Mike, 51, both had the fewest votes.

As the results of the voting were announced, Mike lamented that he had been evicted before he had done a Bushtucker Trial.

Helping himself to cake, he told Geordie duo Ant and Dec that he felt his lack of votes may have reflected the fact he had not been put to the test.

He said: "Since the first day I have done absolutely nothing, haven't had to encounter a spider or a snake or a slug."

Mike, chairman of the newly-formed Rupert Brooke Society, said that he had enjoyed his time in the camp and had got on well with the other celebrity contestants.

"We all got on well as a team and that's the only way to keep things together," he said. "You have to hang together, if you become isolated, you become weaker.

"The hunger is one of the worst things.

"Before I went in I thought I could cope with rice and beans but I wasn't counting on the polystyrene taste of the rice and beans.

"There was a distinct lack of food."

The remaining nine in the third series of the show are: John Lydon, 47, Kerry McFadden, 23, Diane Modahl, 37, Neil "Razor" Ruddock, 35, Alex Best, 32, Peter Andre, 30, Lord Brocket, 52, Jennie Bond and Jordan, 25.

Diane had been the odds-on favourite to leave at 2/5 with Mike second favourite at 9/4, according to bookmaker William Hill.

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