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I’m A Celebrity’s Seann Walsh says being caught cheating with Strictly Come Dancing partner was ‘catalyst’ for him to change as a person-Rachael O'Connor-Entertainment – Metro
He opened up about the drama to Charlene in the campsite.
Seann Walsh says being caught cheating taught him to ‘keep hold of what I love’ (Picture: ITV/Shutterstock)
Seann Walsh has said the backlash over his kiss with his Strictly Come Dancing partner Katya Jones was the ‘catalyst’ for him to change and ‘keep hold of what I love.’
The 36-year-old comedian made national headlines in 2018 when he was pictured kissing his married dance partner while he was also in a relationship.
Walsh told his I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! campmates during Friday’s episode that he had been living in ‘chaos’ before partaking in the BBC dancing show.
Loose Women presenter Charlene White asked him: ‘Did what happen four years ago, did that bring chaos back into your life?’
To which he admitted: ‘That was really the catalyst for “I’ve got to change to try and keep hold of what I love now.”‘
‘Stop the chaos and just live your life?’ Charlene pressed.
‘Absolutely,’ he said.
He previously called his apology on live TV the ‘wort mistake’ of his life (Picture: ITV)
‘And that’s a process, it’s not just “I quit drinking so now I’m fine.”
‘That’s when it gets worse because you have to suddenly now deal with everything that you were trying to block out.’
The stand-up comedian had been in a relationship with actress Rebecca Humphries at the time of the kiss.
A few days later Rebecca released a statement on social media, revealing that the night that Sean cheated, she was sitting ‘alone at home’ on her birthday.
The comedian entered the jungle on Wednesday (Picture: ITV/Shutterstock)
‘We spoke and I told him, not for the first time, that his actions over the past three weeks had led me to believe something inappropriate was going on,’ she added.
She also went on to accuse him of ‘inappropriate, hurtful behaviour’, but added that she was now ‘free’.
While both Seann and Katya issued public apologies about what they both referred to as a ‘one-off drunken mistake’, Seann didn’t mention his partner.
Seann was caught kissing Strictly partner Katya while she was married and he was in a relationship (Picture: BBC)
While Katya and Neil initially stayed together after the kiss scandal, 10 months later, they confirmed that they had split after seven years of marriage.
He previously told his campmates the cheating scandal, and an apology he made on live TV, was the ‘worst moment of my life.’
Seann entered the Australian jungle during Wednesday’s episode of the ITV reality show, alongside former health secretary Matt Hancock.
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The pair took part in the Beastly Burrows challenge, securing six out of 11 stars which were available.
Since then, Hancock has taken part in two further Bushtucker trials and has been voted by the public to also take on the next.
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