MEDIC Bob is not going to participate in I’m a Superstar . . . Get Me Out of Right here! when it returns to the jungle this 12 months.
It will likely be the primary time Bob McCarron, 72, has missed an Australian run of the present.
He has been a well-recognized face for the reason that ITV sequence started in 2002 — providing recommendation to contestants and giving them pressing medical care, together with eradicating a cockroach from 2018 winner Harry Redknapp’s ear.
He will likely be changed by a special medical professional who gained’t be seen on TV.
The Solar understands Aussie Bob will nonetheless work on the sequence’ German model.
He additionally hosts a spin-off present the place he travels round Australia.
A supply stated Bob was so busy that one thing needed to give and “sadly, that’s the UK model”.
They added: “It’s unthinkable to think about the present with out Medic Bob.”
The present was filmed in a Welsh fortress for the final two years resulting from Covid.
An I’m a Celeb spokesman stated: “Bob will at all times be a buddy to the present.
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“We want him all the easiest and thank him for his onerous work.”
Bob’s greatest bits
BOB tended to Gillian McKeith who “fainted” earlier than a trial in 2010.
He gave All Saints star Natalie Appleton oxygen when she felt unwell put up trial again in 2007.
Bob retrieved a cockroach from inside Fatima Whitbread’s nostril in 2012.
Scarlett Moffatt revealed the he compelled her to scrub after she initially refused to face the jungle bathe in 2017.
Bob helped Jason Donovan sort out a critter in his pants in 2006.
