Sue Cleaver third to leave I’m A Celebrity but first to give ITV viewers goose bumps with adoption story

Sue Cleaver declared that her ‘time was done’ as ITV audiences voted the Coronation Street star out of the I’m A Celebrity jungle.

The 59-year-old becomes the third to leave the 2022 camp but unlike her former dumped campmate, Scarlette Douglas, Sue was ecstatic to exit the show.

Sue was announced in the bottom two against pop icon Boy George, and upon hearing the news that she was next to leave, the cobbles star screamed with joy before declaring that her I'm A Celebrity journey was 'the ride of [her] life.'

While it may have been her time to leave camp, Sue had previously opened up in camp about another crucial time in her life in which she finally met her birth mother and sisters.

She told her campmates: “It was when I was at drama school, I was about 22-24 and Royal Exchange [in Manchester] was looking for little tiny parts for Oedipus.”

As she walked in for the audition, another actor said: “Oh my god, she’s the absolute double of my wife when I met her.”

The chance encounter led the actor to ask Sue for her date of birth before telling his wife, ‘I have found her’.

Sue continued to tell the ITV reality show contestants that after that, she found out she had two half-sisters, Emma and Kate Harbour, who both happened to be in the same industry as the Corrie star.

The campmates exclaimed they had goose bumps from Sue’s heart-warming story that ended with Sue stating her birth mother, adopted mother and herself got on really well, even going out for dinners.

Sue, who has played Eileen Grimshaw in Coronation Street since 2000, has now revealed that she hadn’t planned on telling anyone about her adoption story.

In her first interview since leaving the Australian camp, Sue told Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid on Good Morning Britain that she had felt so comfortable in camp to open up about her past.

Sue said: “I have been quite private, I have never spoken out about that out of respect for everyone, but I felt so comfortable in there with those people and Emma and Kate, my brother and my mum said, ‘say whatever you feel, what you’re happy to feel’ so I did.”

Although Sue appeared to be close to both her 'camp husband' former rugby player Mike Tindall and fellow soap star Hollyoaks actor Owen Warner, she hoped that Lioness Jill Scott could be crowned Queen of the Jungle.