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Nazeem Hussain is out of the jungle. Picture: Nigel Wright / Channel 10
COMEDIAN Nazeem Hussain has tipped Casey Donovan to be crowned queen of the jungle ahead of the grand final of I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!
Hussain’s elimination from the South African jungle camp leaves Donovan, Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Dane Swan going into the finale tomorrow night.
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Nazeem Hussain is out of the jungle. Picture: Nigel Wright / Channel 10Source:Supplied
“Casey is like my family, we just connected straight away. If you meet her, Casey is only going to put a smile on your face,” he said, adding that he’d like to see a queen of the jungle this season following previous wins from sports men Freddie Flintoff and Brendan Fevola.
Casey Donovan, Dane Swan and Natalie Bassingthwaighte are the last three contestants left in the jungle. Picture: Channel 10Source:Supplied
“It is important that a person wins on merit and Casey has both – she is the most amazing person and she is a woman who doesn’t play sport. She is just a beautiful person and her music has been the most amazing thing in camp, it is genuinely uplifting and speaks to the soul.”
Hussain, 31, was consistently one of the most popular campmates, regarded as the peacekeeper when tensions rose on the Channel Ten reality show.
Nazeem Hussain is out of the jungle: Picture: Channel Ten / Nigel WrightSource:Channel 10
“I actually didn’t think I’d be here longer than two weeks,” he told News Corp after his elimination. “I thought, ‘people are going to be like, this guy is so annoying, he thinks he’s funny but really he is irritating.”
Hussain was one of the original celebrities to enter the jungle on January 29, alongside the likes of Steve Price, Lisa Curry, Ash Pollard and Tegan Martin.
Of all the campmates, the celebrity he would least like to catch up in the outside world is American actor and comedian Tom Arnold.
“Even though a lot of them were irritating, everyone had a good side and I really liked all of them,” he said. “Tom Arnold, I liked him until he started yelling at certain women in camp and I thought, that is too far, we are all friends. It started to feel a bit semi-abusive.”
* The journalist is in South Africa as a guest of Channel Ten.