“I always thought I wouldn’t do [I’m a Celebrity], because I’ve gotten too comfortable in my life,” says Williams, who won the first series of Bear Grylls: Mission to Survive in 2015. “I like to have eight hours of sleep, I like to eat nice things, I like to just
chill out and I never put myself out of my comfort zone. Then, when I turned 40, I started to get scared of ridiculous things. I didn’t want to be this person. Doing this is such a massive life experience and it is not something you can pay to do.”
Williams also asserts the show is tougher than anything Grylls threw at her, because since then, she’s become a mother of three and she anticipates struggling with missing her children. She also admits she’s generally fearful of animals, but that her husband Spencer Matthews (who competed on the series in 2015, but was asked to leave early, after revealing he took steroids) is “really happy” for her.
