I’m A Celebrity fans have praised this year’s campmates as the ‘best cast ever’ for having ‘important conversations’, after they shared their battles with postpartum depression.

As talk in the camp turned to parenting on Thursday episode, Oti Mabuse said she felt the experiences of fathers becoming parents wasn’t discussed as much.

Danny Jones then opened up about how he had struggled seeing his wife Georgia suffer after giving birth, saying: ‘Seeing my wife go through that was kind of new.

‘Looking back now, she had postnatal depression. That is so hard and what made it harder was she didn’t know.’

Oti then recalled her own experience after welcoming her daughter in November 2023,explaining: ‘I just remember going to the shower and I was crying, I was just devastated but nothing was wrong.

‘I had a new baby, the midwives were amazing, I was getting fed, my husband was there, like nothing was wrong but everything was wrong.’

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I’m A Celebrity fans have praised this year’s campmates as the ‘best cast ever’ for having ‘important conversations’, after they shared their battles with postpartum depression

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As talk in the camp turned to parenting on Thursday episode, Oti Mabuse said she felt the experiences of fathers becoming parents wasn’t discussed as much

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Danny Jones (pictured) then opened up about how he had struggled seeing his wife Georgia suffer after giving birth, saying: ‘Looking back now, she had postnatal depression’

Coleen Rooney, who shares sons Kai, 15, Klay, 11, Kit, eight, and Cass, six, with husband Wayne, revealed that she broke down a few days after giving birth to her eldest.

She said: ‘I just threw myself on the bed sobbing. But then I started thinking about other women who were less fortunate than me, so women on their own, single parents.

‘The emotions just take over you. And also what I found hard is this baby is now your responsibility for life and where our life before that was quite spontaneous.

‘Wayne never knew when he would get time off from week to week…We’d just do things in the spur of the moment whereas now life was a plan. We had to plan it out.’

Oti and Danny bonded over their emotional experiences of childbirth as a mother compared to the father, with the dancer saying her husband Marius Lepure has struggled like Danny had.

The Strictly Come Dancing star explained: ‘He needed to learn to be there for me emotionally. He tried to fix it.’

While Danny said he had wanted to do the same for his wife, admitting: ‘I wanted to try and fix it and say, “Come on you can do this!” but that’s not what she needed.’

Viewers admitted they were ‘almost sobbing’ watching the heartfelt chat, as they praised the cast for being open about important topics and turning this year’s series into ‘the most brilliant therapy session’, while declaring that ‘this is what reality shows should be about’.

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Oti (pictured) then recalled her own experience after welcoming her daughter in November 2023, explaining: ‘I just remember going to the shower and I was crying, I was just devastated but nothing was wrong’

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Coleen Rooney (pictured), who shares sons Kai, 15, Klay, 11, Kit, eight, and Cass, six, with husband Wayne, revealed that she broke down a few days after giving birth to her eldest

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Oti and Danny bonded over their emotional experiences of childbirth as a mother compared to the father, with the dancer saying her husband Marius Lepure has struggled like Danny had

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The Strictly Come Dancing star explained: ‘He needed to learn to be there for me emotionally. He tried to fix it’ (pictured with husband and daughter)

They took to social media to gush: ‘What an amazing chat. ANOTHER amazing, open, revealing & above all, supportive chat.’

‘i can’t even explain how much i love this group this year the way they’re all so comfortable enough to open up to each other, listen to each others stories and lift each other up, can we just crown them all?’

‘Almost sobbing watching the camp mates normalising postpartum depression. Thank you ♥️’; ‘How has this year’s #ImACeleb ended up being the most brilliant therapy session??? I’m obsessed!’

‘i love the camps little talks about important issues. i’ll say it again, BEST CAST EVER’; ‘It’s good they are bringing up postnatal depression. It’s a very real thing, and so many women endure it in silence.’

‘I can’t ever recall another series where such important topics have been touched on – Grief Anxiety Postpartum Depression. This cast have opened up such important conversations’.

‘so many important conversations are happening this year, and this is exactly what shows like this should be about, alongside the entertainment’; These chats are so lovely to listen in on. This cast has been so gorgeous to watch!’

‘The way these campmates have been so interesting to listen to I feel like I need a chat show with them all on the panel after it ends’; ‘The chats this year have been amazing’.

‘i love this camp and all the important conversations they have about stuff, they all seem like such good souls’; ‘It’s weird that we get more general chat on this show than #bbuk – used to be the other way round. It’s actually been interesting – I prefer it to the trials.’

‘Bravo to the camp this year. Talking about everything everyone should never be afraid to talk about. Child loss, anxiety, post natal depression, weight shaming, birth stories, skin problems. You name it they’ve spoke about it’.

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Viewers admitted they were ‘almost sobbing’ watching the heartfelt chat, as they praised the cast for being open about important topics and turning this year’s series into ‘the most brilliant therapy session’, while declaring that ‘this is what reality shows should be about’

Elsewhere in the episode, Oti opened up about her body struggles, as she admitted she has been called fat by cruel trolls.

Chatting with Maura Higgins, the professional dancer candidly revealed how she used to be unhealthy and underweight and even stopped having her period for months.

She went on to explain how nasty comments about her body really got to her, as she was only complimented on her figure when her ‘ribs were sticking out’ due to never eating and dancing all day.

The Strictly star said: ”I get so many comments about my body. I used to find it difficult because my weight gain wasn’t actually my fault, it was me getting over a weight problem.

‘It was me actually not starving myself, not being on laxatives, not smoking, being a vegan.

‘It was actually me being healthy for the first time and I really struggled being like why are people calling me fat? Actually, this is the healthiest I’ve ever been.’

Discussing her intense dancing training, Oti confessed: ‘I was underweight, I didn’t get my period for months. I didn’t eat, we would dance all day, we would drink but we wouldn’t eat.

‘My ribs were sticking out. And back in those days it was like, “Oh, she’s amazing, she’s got a nice body” but I was like, “No, but this is me being healthy”.’

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Elsewhere in the episode, Oti opened up about her body struggles, as she admitted she has been called fat by cruel trolls

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Chatting with Maura Higgins , the professional dancer candidly revealed how she used to be unhealthy and underweight and even stopped having her period for months

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She went on to explain how nasty comments about her body really got to her, as she was only complimented on her figure when her ‘ribs were sticking out’ due to never eating and dancing all day (pictured in 2016)

Supporting the dancer, Maura complimented her as she added: ‘And you’re beautiful! And you’re sexy, you’ve got the best ass I’ve ever seen. Let me tell you!’

Empathising with the star, Maura said: ‘I get that I’m fat! And then I get that I’m underweight. It’s just either underweight or fat. It’s never, ‘Oh she looks good’.’

Oti added: ‘I always get she’s loud, she’s screeching, why is she always on my TV screen?’

Talking to the camera, Oti said of her and Maura’s chat: ‘We have so many open and uncensored conversations about what we think about ourselves and our bodies.

‘She understands me and she understands how hard it is to get up and wake up in a world where you feel like people don’t love you and still fight.

‘I know I fight everyday because I know my daughter is watching and I do it for, I don’t want her to be fighting generational traumas the way I am.’

I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! continues nightly at 9pm on ITV1, STV and ITVX