Alex Scott has revealed she snuck salt from a service station on the drive to the Jungle into her socks and named who else knew she was putting it in the food for a week.
The former Lioness, 41, was the first campmate to be evicted from this year’s series on Friday night.
Speaking to the Daily Mail about ‘saltgate’ in which she was punished for bring contraband into the camp in the form of a salt packet, she revealed others new about it.
The Football Focus presenter said: ‘We didn’t have luxury items this year so on the way in, I stopped and got a chicken salad, how boring.
‘And then there was all these sachets of salt and pepper, so I was like, “Let me just pick up a few, and see if I can manage to get them in camp.”
‘And I put them down my sock on the coming in day and managed to get it in.’
Alex Scott and Shona McGarty were caught out for smuggling contraband as the footballer had taken salt into camp and the EastEnders actress stole an air freshener from a trial
The footballer, 41, faced the wrath of bosses after she was caught using smuggled sachets of salt to season the food in camp (seen)
She revealed that Jack Osbourne, 41, knew about the salt right away because he was on cooking duty and she would pass it to him on a spoon.
Then social media sensation and favourite to win Angry Ginge, 24, she recalled ‘saw me one night and kept giving me the eye’.
On her final day in camp she slipped Emmerdale actress, Lisa Riley, the empty packet and she started screaming in the dunny when she saw what it was.
Alex was caught sneaking the salt into the camps’ dinner and the next day the entire group were punished and an amnesty box was placed into camp.
This saw Shona McGarty, 34, come forward with air freshener which, it can be revealed, she snuck in her waistband after a trial and kept in the dunny – the slang word for toilet.
Alex said: ‘Shona and I just looked at each other straight away. We were like, “We have to confess”, me and Shona tell each other everything.
‘So straightway, when we were doing a trial, she’d come back and she was like, “I managed to get this air freshener for the dunny”.
‘But then he’s like weird because me and Shona obviously knew, but it’s like, no one saw it in the dunny.. like it was blatantly there.
Alex’s contraband saw the rest of the camp punished as she snuck salt into their dinner after she hid sachets in her socks on the way into camp
Alex became the first contestant to be voted off the show on Friday night
‘But I suppose if you’re an autopilot just rushing into the dunny, I think Kelly went in one day and she was like, “Oh my God, the dunny smells so fresh”.’
Alex also revealed that she almost didn’t make it to the Australian Outback after her girlfriend Jess Glynne‘s beloved mother Alexandra suffered a major stroke which left her needing brain surgery.
In an emotional interview with the Daily Mail, Alex, 41, revealed that it was singer Jess who talked her into going despite the devastating family news – but she did spend her time on the ITV show fearing that if her partner wasn’t there to meet her at the jungle bridge then her mum’s condition may have got worse.
Speaking after her exit from the show on Friday night, Alex said: ‘It’s been a tough time for us and obviously her family and it was a tough decision to come into the jungle.
‘But then Jess never wanted me to step away from not doing it. I knew there was always a possibility of her not being across the bridge, if her mum hadn’t got better or if things had been getting worse, which they have been.
‘But it was a big decision for me to not pass this opportunity and Jess was the one who pushed me to be here.’
