Janice Dickinson is suing ITV bosses after she was injured during a fall on I’m a Celebrity.
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.
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.
The TV personality revealed in an interview at the time that she tripped and fell flat on her face during filming for the prerecorded show in October 2022, while trying to find the toilet in the middle of the night.
She blamed her own ‘stupidity’ and confirmed at the time that ITV paid her show fee and her medical bills but it’s now understood new information has come to light.
Janice’s rep, Dermot McNamara has confirmed to Daily Mail: ‘A claim has been issued at the High Court, in relation to her appearance on I’m a Celebrity: South Africa and she looks forward to giving her full account in due course.’
Th model told The Sun’s TV Mag at the time of the accident: ‘I was feeling very insecure because the campfire had gone out and it was as dark as it could be. So I thought: Right, I’ll make it to the dunny from 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 added: ‘All I could feel was an intense head pain – from one to ten it was about a nine – and I was just lying there, moaning. It was a freak accident that happened so quickly.’
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.
‘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.’
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.
