Most Haunted’s Yvette Fielding reveals if I’m A Celeb camp is haunted and reignites bitter camp feud with rival
SHE’S the first lady of the paranormal, having spent countless nights inside creepy, haunted locations.
So Most Haunted star Yvette Fielding, 56, was unfazed by the unfamiliar environment when she stepped into the I’m A Celebrity jungle nine years ago.
It proved to be a break from spooky goings on with no need for thermal cameras, EMF meters or spirit boxes, but it wasn’t the serene back to nature experience she’d been expecting.
When asked if she picked up on any ghostly goings on in camp in an exclusive interview with The Sun on behalf of Ring, Yvette had a clear answer.
“All I can say is, no,” she laughed.
“But there was one negative entity there I just couldn’t get rid of. And that’s all I’ll say.”
Though she didn’t mention the ‘entity’ by name, it refers to Lady Colin Campbell, who clashed with a number of campmates in 2015 due to her acerbic comments.
Yvette, who rarely watches TV and isn’t tuning in to the current series, has mixed feelings about her own time on the show.
And the passing years haven’t changed her view of her old jungle rival.
“I don’t regret it,” said Yvette.
“I get annoyed because there was a certain person there who ruined the whole experience for me because of their negativity and their attitude, which was a real shame. But I’m glad I did it because it was a great experience.
“I mean, wow, I’ve never been to Australia before to go there. My eyes were just, I loved it. I thought it was absolutely brilliant.
“So I certainly don’t regret it. But would I do it again? No.”
Yvette was the third celebrity to leave her series of the ITV reality show and, in her exit interview, she described Lady C as a “sly witch” who left campmates “walking on eggshells”.
Ultimately, the programme proved a mere two-week distraction from Yvette’s esteemed paranormal career.
She threw herself back into ghost hunting the following year, tackling well-known buildings like the Lyceum Theatre and HMP Shrewsbury.
Though neither proved anywhere near as terrifying as her foray into Edinburgh Vaults back in 2003.
The Vaults date back to 1785 and began as a gambling and boozing den of sorts underneath the city.
Rumours have circulated over the years that serial killer William Burke and William Hare stashed bodies there, though this hasn’t been proven.
She said: “If you talk to anybody that’s been to Edinburgh Vaults, there’s a room where there’s a stone circle and members of the public will go on a tour down there, and they’ll come out and have scratches on their face or bruises or little burns on them.
Yvette is considered the first lady of the paranormal[/caption] She has moved into novel writing in recent years[/caption]“And that’s why we went to investigate Edinburgh Vaults, because we thought, well, what’s going on here? And sure enough, three members of the team got scratched, but one of them so badly, down his leg, the cut was so deep you could see the bone.
“He had to be rushed off to Accident and Emergency to get it stitched up. And that’s where I actually resigned live on air.
“I went into shock. I was so frightened. But we were broadcasting across America on the Discovery Channel and across the UK at the same time, and I’m trying to keep it together.
“I just keep bursting into tears, and I actually said live on air, that’s it, I resign. I’m not dealing with any of this, because it’s too frightening.”
HOME INVASION
Yvette is now using her expertise to help homeowners establish whether or not they’re experiencing supernatural goings on after a raft of Ring doorbell owners spotted spooky happenings on their devices.
While some are what you’d expect from a cheeky apparition, others are a bit more sinister and extreme.
She said: “Oh blimey, there’s so many. Hearing your doorbell ring or somebody knocking at the door and you go to open it and there’s nobody there. This might happen three times in the day and you’re like, what’s going on?
“The next thing will be objects will just disappear like your keys or you’ll be there getting ready in your bathroom and you’ll be needing a hairbrush or whatever you think, where the hell’s that gone? And then they’ll turn up in the most ridiculous place, like your hairbrush might turn up in the cutlery drawer downstairs in the kitchen.
“Then it’s noises, so you might suddenly start hearing footsteps on your staircase or voices, whispering, talking.
“And then the next thing is, will be objects moving, but heavy objects, so like chairs will suddenly appear in different rooms where they’re not supposed to be or you’ll hear furniture being dragged around and you’ll think, oh my god, what’s going on? And you’ll go into that particular room where you’ve heard the noise from and nothing’s out of place.
“Or in some really horrible cases, the furniture will be piled up, normally at one end of the room or in a pyramid, which is really bizarre. What else happens? All sorts of strange things. You’ll feel like you’re being watched in your own home.
“Doors will slam, that sort of thing. So it’s really quite scary. When you are in that situation and you see this believing and you think, this is not my imagination, I know these things are moving on their own.
“I know I’m hearing a little girl’s voice. I know I can hear footsteps running up and down the stairs and objects are being moved in my house. Then you know that you’ve got somebody else with you.”
Regardless of the terror she’s experienced, Yvette has vowed to hunt on and even joked that she’ll return to her own show as a ghost when she eventually pops her clogs.
I'm A Celebrity 2015 final standings
- Vicky Pattison – Winner
- George Shelley – Runner-up
- Ferne McCann – Third place
- Kieron Dyer – Fourth place
- Carl Fogarty – Fifth place
- Jorgie Porter – Sixth place
- Tony Hadley – Seventh place
- Chris Eubank – Eighth place
- Yvette Fielding – Ninth place
- Brian Friedman – Tenth place
- Susannah Constantine – Eleventh place
- Lady Colin Campbell – Twelfth place (withdrew)