Beverley Callard spoke out after being ruled out of a Bushtucker Trial on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! and insisted she was not trying to duck the trial.
The 63-year-old Coronation Street legend was exempt from the public vote for a trial called ‘Cruel Jewels’ due to medical grounds and Bev was quick to quantify to her other campmates why she would not be taking part.
I’m A Celebrity hosts Ant and Dec revealed to the camp who had been chosen for the trial, as they spoke live to the campmates at the end of the show.
They announced: “Bev is ruled out of this one on medical grounds.”
The soap star was quick to pipe up in response, saying: “But I’m not a wuss.”
Ant responded, saying: “We know that, it’s medical grounds.”
Dec confirmed: “It’s on the record.”
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In fact, Bev has done well to make it to the camp at all, after undergoing two hip surgeries this year, with the latest being in July after the initial one in March was botched, leaving her in agonising pain.
Bev, who plays Liz McDonald in the Weatherfield based soap, had to undergo physiotherapy and other treatments, after she had to learn to walk again.
She told Mirror Online and other press that she had “worked her socks off” to get herself in a place where she could take on the I’m A Celebrity challenge.
She said at the time: “I had one operation in March, then the great big one on the 20th of July.”
Bev confided in her doctor about the possibility of doing the jungle series, but he was convinced she would have to give it a miss.
She explained: “I told him about it and he said, ‘Beverley, you’ve got no chance’.”
The doctor was amazed at the progress in the months after her surgery as she worked hard to get back her strength.
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She revealed: “He said I’m a hell of a woman, he said he couldn’t believe it and the hospital wanted to use me as an example.”
On what she’s ruled out of on the series, she added: “There is only one thing I’m not allowed to do, and that’s a bungee jump.
“That’s the only thing I can’t do, cos I would hate it if they said, ‘Beverley can’t take part because of medical reasons’.”
She added: “I can walk, I can go upstairs, I can do everything. I have not missed one physio session, I’ve done hydrotherapy, I’ve done the whole lot.
“Believe me I have worked my socks off to be here, so I am not gonna quit.”
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Originally from https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/beverley-callard-speaks-out-after-23057405