Boy George: My spiritual practices saved me from snake attack on I'm A Celebrity

Boy George says his spiritual practices saved him from being attacked by a snake on 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!'.

The 'Karma Chameleon' hitmaker has told how a serpent came at him during his time in the jungle, but he resorted to his spiritual exercises to keep calm and believes the snake "understood".

He said: "What I did learn in there was my spiritual practices 1,000 per cent worked. They kept the animals away from me. They kept me safe.

"There was a snake and it came at me and it moved back and I think just doing the 'ahmm' removed the tension I was feeling.

"I thought, 'What am I gonna do here? The animal is going to know I'm scared', and that is when they say they might bite you. I reckon that snake understood.

"They say to say a little prayer to the creatures, ask them if you can share their space, and that's what I was doing.

"It might have looked like I was crazy but I was so far out of my comfort zone that I had to do something to keep myself sane and not just talk about biscuits."

One thing his spiritual practices didn't keep George away from is his fellow campmate Matt Hancock.

The former Health Secretary's arrival in the jungle caused some controversy, after he previously broke his own COVID lockdown guidance when he was caught kissing his former aide and now-girlfriend Gina Coladangelo.

But George says Matt "isn't a dislikeable human being", and insists he didn't bully him in the jungle.

He said: "The thing with the Matt thing was it was more that I wasn't prepared for it. I don't like surprises.

"He isn't a dislikeable human being. What he did was wrong and my only problem was the way that he apologised.

"If you do something wrong, you say 'I did it wrong and I'm sorry'. Don't use a technicality because it's not going to work. So that's the only thing that I thought was the problem.

"I was quite surprised when I came out and read that I had bullied Matt. I knew for a fact that he would never say I bullied him because that was the opposite of what I did. Bullying him would have been being dishonest, going behind his back and saying it to everyone else.

"And there was some of that, there was a lot of that in the background - people saying things about Matt and then being friendly to his face. I said what I had to say and just wanted to enjoy my time in the jungle."

George also admitted he encouraged camp mutinies in the jungle, but nobody else was on board.

Speaking on 'Lorraine', he added: "There were a few times when you did a trial and got covered in unspeakable things, and Ant and Dec got into their posh car and you were told to walk up the hill.

"This one particular day I was like, 'No, no.' I saw the camera wasn't on and I was like, 'If you're not filming then why do you need me to walk up the hill?'

"I'm a red light queen. Camera's on you'll get me being professional. When it's off - don't wind me up.

"Sue got a buggy, and rightfully so, because she had a bad leg.

"I was trying to encourage these mutinies all the time. But they all just ignored me."