Anthony and Fatima miss out on 'Celebrity' final

Anthony and Fatima miss out on 'Celebrity' final
Anthony and Fatima miss out on 'Celebrity' final

Anthony Cotton and Fatima Whitbread have been voted off I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! in a double elimination ahead of Saturday night's final. The Coronation Street star was the first to leave on Friday's show after receiving the lowest number of votes from the public, while former Olympic athlete Fatima - who was the last woman in the camp - finished third. Their departure now means that Dougie Poynter and Mark Wright will battle it out to become King Of The Jungle. Afterwards Anthony admitted he was "gutted" to have left camp one day before the final but added, "I did what I could do and I'm amazed that I lasted that long. "You can't ever plan for it," he said. "Every part of it was emotional and exciting and I've genuinely loved every minute." Fatima also said she was disappointed to have missed out on the final but admitted she was "absolutely delighted" to have taken part in the show. "It has been an enormous journey for me and sharing it amongst other new-found friends has been a real pleasure," she told Ant and Dec. "It would have been nice to go through the finishing line first but there have been some very tough contenders this year." Mark Wright is favourite to be crowned King of the Jungle on Saturday night, with William Hill offering odds of 2-5 on the TOWIE star winning, and Dougie the outsider at 15-8. The final will be shown on ITV1 from 9.30pm.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.