Myleene Klass has become the first Legend to win I'm A Celebrity..South Africa saying she wanted to show her girls to “keep walking through the fire”.

The Hampstead mum-of-three saw off competition from fellow finalists Diversity dancer Jordan Banjo, Olympic javelin thrower Fatima Whitbread and former England captain Phil Tufnell during Friday’s final.

The 45-year-old presenter, known for her famous bikini shower scene during her original run in 2006 when she came second to musician Matt Willis, is the first ‘I’m A Celebrity Legend’.

The spin-off show, which was pre-recorded, saw famous faces from previous seasons of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! compete.

Following her win, Klass said: “I had a ball the first time. This time round, I’m a mum and that changes everything.

“You don’t want to let your children down, you don’t want to say something that will embarrass them. You don’t want to bottle out of a trial.”

Klass, who has two daughters over the age of 10, Hero and Ava, along with a son Apollo, born in 2019, added: “We sat down and had a big conversation about it as a family.

“Both of (my daughters) were just begging me to do it. I said to them I’ll be as strong as I can be, I wanted to show them, and other little girls, keep walking through the fire.

“In the 16 years since I last did the jungle, I’ve really been tested and had to really hold (my) nerve.”

She added that her children made her a necklace that she held on to during every trial while missing them “so much"/

Over the course of the episode, Klass beat runner-up Banjo during a final eating trial, which involved them facing a menu that included fermented eggs and mice tails.

Their former campmates watched on as Klass chose to eat 40 spoons full of stinky tofu in under five minutes during the last moments of the final face-off.

The singer said she was just thinking of her kids the whole time she was eating the food before being given the sceptre and leaf crown.

Radio DJ Banjo, 30, said: “Well, the first time I was in the jungle, I came ninth. I’ve just learnt that.

“I’ve been telling everyone for the last six years I came seventh. I was a bit shocked, I didn’t realise I did that badly first time.

“So coming up ninth to second is a huge achievement. Very very happy, very proud of myself but as you saw, Myleene in that final… no one else was coming first.

“So like I said, hats off to Myleene. Thoroughly deserved.”