Fern Britton wanted an "adventure" when she signed up for 'Celebrity Big Brother'.

This Morning legend Fern Britton placed fifth on the most recent series of Celebrity Big Brother

This Morning legend Fern Britton placed fifth on the most recent series of Celebrity Big Brother

The 66-year-old presenter - who hosted 'This Morning' alongside Phillip Schofield from 2002 until 2009 - recently reached the final of the hit ITV1 reality show and admitted that she likes to "feel uncomfortable" as she recalled feeling "spaced out" upon entering the house for the first time.

Speaking on ITV's 'This Morning', she said: "I could do with an adventure, and I haven't had an adventure for a little while. I quite like feeling uncomfortable and I thought I'd give it a go. Before you go in, you are kept for about 36 hours - it feels like days on end - in a hotel room with a chaperone. No phone, no watch, no television, no radio, no book. I did sneak out now and then to just walk the corridor. So I was already spaced out. The game had started in all of our heads by getting us confused in our heads."

"All of a sudden you're in a dress, in make up, in a car and then you go in. There's bloody AJ and Will and you're walking up a ramp in the rain. Literally extraordinary.

The former 'Ready Steady Cook' host - who split from celebrity chef Phil Vickery in 2020 after two decades together - finished fifth overall in the series, behind 'X Factor' judge Louis Walsh, 'Coronation Street' actor Colson Smith, 'Strictly Come Dancing' professional Nikita Kuzmin and reality star winner David Potts.

But she recalled "willing" herself to sleep in the run-up to the end of the competition, as she noted some "painful" moments included the shock backdoor eviction of 'Heartstopper' star Bradley Riches.

She added: "Locked into a big room with 12 other people. No windows, no daylight, no nothing, Except a sort of low light under the beds all the time. It was weird, very weird. After, I think I did 19 nights, the last few, I found really hard and was just willing myself to sleep.

"Then those hours would be done and then you'd wake up and you'd still be locked in. Suddenly, the lights would go on and they would play music. It makes emotions very heightened. I think a lot of us wept. It was literally just an alien environment, a lot of it was good fun, fascinating to be a part of and then bits of it were painful."

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