Jane Moore says I ‘had so much going on in her head’ as she shares health battle
Spending three weeks in a jungle camp can be a gruelling experience for most celebrities, but Loose Women’s Jane Moore says her time on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! was “like a spa break,” and it helped fix a significant problem she’d been dealing with. On the Loose Women podcast, Jane told fellow I’m A Celeb veteran GK Barry that the tough conditions served as a reset for her troubled mind: “Before I went into the jungle I was not sleeping well,” she explained.
“I’d got divorced, I was selling my house – I had so much going on in my head but when I got into that jungle all I had to do was wake up and think about making the fire or something.”
She added that the experience cured her insomnia: “I am now still sleeping like I was sleeping in the jungle,” Jane said. “I got my sleeping back.”
GK Barry agreed with her, saying her quality of sleep was “insane” in the camp’s hammock: “It was incredible, Jane,” she said. “I was swinging about… I really enjoyed it.”
Another former I’m A Celeb contestant, AJ Pritchard had previously revealed that the celebrities taking part had been warned that their sleep patterns could be seriously disrupted by the show’s schedule: “I’ve shifted all my times,” he said.
AJ explained: “We’ve been told to go to bed about 3am and wake up about 11am, because the trials will be filmed quite late at night due to having enough time to edit and you’ll find out who left at maybe 11pm.”
Jane says she had been one of the hardest workers in the camp, but it doesn’t always pay off: “I did a lot down there but hard work doesn’t pay off as I’m the first one out, people don’t notice hard work,” she said.
Jane, 62, says that she had gone into the camp while she was still suffering the fallout of her divorce from ex husband, showbiz PR Gary Farrow.
She said that while they had tried to manage the process “as amicably as possible” there were inevitably moments when things got tense – especially as they were still sharing a house through lockdown.
She adds that she has always taken a pragmatic approach if relationships don’t work out: “For me, heartbreak, even if I’ve had a couple of nights were I’ve been really upset, but then after that I just have this ability to put things on the back burner and to just go ‘OK, that wasn’t to be’.”
