Vic happily booted out

One of the shortest stays in I'm a Celebrity history ended last night when Vic Reeves became the second celeb to be booted out.

10:52 01 December 2004

One of the shortest stays in I'm a Celebrity history ended last night when Vic Reeves became the second celeb to be booted out.

But the comic seemed more than happy to leave the jungle and join wife Nancy Sorrell, who was evicted the day before.

"Thank you!" he yelled at viewers when he was told of the news.

The 45-year-old then grabbed his former lapdancer wife for a kiss before joking: "Can we get out of here now?"

He told presenters Ant and Dec: "I'm so pleased to be out. The most difficult bit was when Nancy went.

"If I hadn't been voted out I'd have made a run for it."

Meanwhile, squeaky-voiced comic Joe Pasquale became the first celeb to earn full marks when he took part in a sky high Bushtucker Trial - and won the campers eight meals.

In the show's first trial to be held outside camp, the 43-year-old was flown to the coast for the Hell-o-Copter challenge that involved dangling from a helicopter 200ft above the ocean.

But Joe, the bookie's favourite to win, took the show's most extreme test yet in his stride.

"This is what I was born to do. Danger is my middle name," the dad-of-five joked.

Joe had five minutes to climb out of the aircraft, clamber down a 100 ft ladder and collect flags during a two-mile flight.

Presenter Dec warned: "You don't have to do this if you don't want to do it."

Plucky Joe was almost thrown off once, when the ladder twisted violently in the wind, and almost could not get back into the helicopter.

But he made it back safely. "It was just bloody hard work," he said afterwards.

"If I had Paul's man breasts and upper-body strength it would have been a piece of cake but I haven't, I'm not that muscular.

"They pulled me in and I just laid on the bottom of the aircraft. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't do anything."