Beverley Callard for I'm A Celebrity... South Africa S2 / ITV
Beverley Callard was forced to cancel a trip back to the UK to attend Friday night’s I’m A Celebrity… South Africa live final for medical reasons.
The ex-Coronation Street actress, 69, tearfully withdrew partway through the show as it was being filmed in South Africa last September after suffering a medical issue – and months later she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Callard is now based in Dublin for her new job working on Irish soap Fair City and had been planning a trip to London for the live finale but her plans had to be abandoned at the last minute.
She told followers on Instagram: “Yesterday, I should have flown to England to get ready for the I’m A Celeb final.
“I was so excited and looking forward to it but on medical advice, I can’t go, I am absolutely gutted.
“I was dying to see them all and it would have been brilliant. I can’t go and yesterday, the flights were booked and everything but no, they said, it is basically too long a day with flying there and then a very late night, so here I am.
“I will be watching and I will be on Zoom chatting to everybody. So I’ve got to make the best of a bad job but I am resting and I am doing as I am told. Thanks to everybody.”
Callard recently underwent surgery to remove the cancer and will find out in several weeks if she is cancer-free.
