Jungle Janet voted out

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She was not to be Queen of the Jungle after all. But as Janet Street-Porter emerged last night, it was as the last woman still giving her male companions a run for their money.

'Thank you so much for bringing me out now - how many rows can I have with Paul Burrell?' she said as she was voted off I'm A Celebrity - Get me Out Of Here!

'You're going to see a unique TV experiment in the next 24 hours - everyone wanted an all-bloke final.

'They all have very different skills and they're all children, by the way, so what you'll see is fantastic TV.

'I learnt so much from the show and in a perverse and sick way I actually enjoyed it.

'I've learned to live on less, eat no salt, eat no sugar, drink no coffee and very little alcohol, but most importantly for me, a woman in my 50s, I have had to meet people I would never know.'

The 57-year-old journalist, who in the jungle reserved her most acid exchanges for former royal butler Paul Burrell, seemed to think more kindly of him once out. 'The bottom line is that he is a thoroughly decent bloke, and he is an

extremely nice man, but he just has to move on,' she said.

He and the other remaining contestants, Joe Pasquale and Fran Cosgrave will fight it out for the title King of the Jungle in two extended programmes on ITV tonight.

Miss Street-Porter's exit - she is pictured minutes afterwards - followed a Bushtucker Trial in which all four contestants had to hang on to stars while standing on a muddy slope being bombarded by water canon and wind machines.

Burrell later complained that Miss Street-Porter had swiped his star from him.

Later, there was more discomfort between them when she challenged him about the time he spent with Diana, Princess of Wales to the detriment of his family

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