Janice Dickinson is suing ITV bosses after she was injured during a fall on I’m a Celebrity.
The 70-year-old American model had to leave the South Africa edition of the show in 2023 after incurring head and face injuries during a fall in the dark at the jungle camp.
She has now filed a personal injury claim against ITV, seeking damages at the High Court.
The documents – which list it as a personal injury claim – were filed on September 19 by celebrity law firm Taylor Hampton, according to The Mirror.
In an interview, the TV star shared that during the October 2022 filming of the prerecorded series, she stumbled and landed face-first when searching for the bathroom at night.
She attributed the fall to her own ‘clumsiness’ and, at the time, confirmed that ITV covered her participation fee and medical expenses, although new details have now emerged.
Janice Dickinson is suing ITV bosses after she was injured during a fall on I’m a Celebrity
Janice’s representative, Dermot McNamara, informed the Daily Mail: ‘A legal claim has been filed in the High Court concerning her participation in I’m a Celebrity: South Africa, and she anticipates giving a complete account soon.’
The model explained to The Sun’s TV Mag during the incident: ‘I felt very uneasy because the campfire wasn’t lit, leaving it pitch black. I decided to navigate to the toilet using my memory.’
‘I walked a couple of steps and tripped, flying flat on my face – hair all over my forehead, my nose was bloody and my whole chin was gashed open.
‘Blood was gushing from all these areas, and there was dirt and stones embedded in my face from the fall.’
She continued: ‘I experienced extreme head pain—on a scale from one to ten, it was about nine—and I was just laying there, groaning. It was a bizarre accident that occurred so fast.’
Luckily, Janice was found by her campmates Fatima Whitbread and Phil Tuffnell, who quickly picked her up off the floor and helped her back to the campsite.
The US star, who was ‘moaning and crying’ with pain, was then helped to her bed before a medic came into camp to assess her.
Janice recalled that she was taken to the medical hut where she was cleaned up and given pain relief.
She was then transported via ambulance, in which she was given a compress for her head and chin, to a ‘tiny hospital in the middle of nowhere’, while her husband Robert Gerner – who was already in South Africa – was called.
The US model, 70, was forced to quit the South African series of the show in 2023 after suffering head and facial injuries when she tripped in the dark at the jungle camp
‘My husband’s face didn’t budge when he saw me – it was probably like waking up and seeing me every morning with this wrinkly old pruney face’But he held my hand really tight so I knew something must be up,’ she added to TV Mag.
‘It was an honest accident. But ITV were kind enough to pay for my doctors’ bills once I got back to LA.
‘I had to go to a serious skin specialist, who put me under laser lighting five days a week for my wounds to heal quickly. That was costly, so ITV did pony up and pay my bills, thank you very much.
She added: ‘If you look really closely now, there’s still an indentation on my forehead, which I don’t think will ever fill out.
The star insisted she wanted to return to the camp but admitted production made the right call in keeping her out.
She added: ‘I was in shock even a day after. I think people in the campsite couldn’t have handled it.’
Janice (pictured in April) said at the time:’If you look really closely now, there’s still an indentation on my forehead, which I don’t think will ever fill out’
I’m A Celeb is returning to South Africa for a second All Stars spin-off series in 2026.
The spin-off of the hit jungle series, which debuted in 2023, will once again see some of the most memorable contestants from previous years battle it out in the South African wilderness.
Ant & Dec are currently shooting in South Africa with the all-star line up also recently jetting out to pre record the series.
Whilst ITV are yet to confirm the line up it’s reported the likes of Gemma Collins, Harry Redknapp, David Haye, Craig Charles and Ashley Roberts will all return to the jungle.
