AJ Pritchard's family were "really worried" about him at the beginning of 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!' because he was barely on screen - but his girlfriend Abbie Quinnen is delighted he has rectified that by getting his "peachy bum" out for the nation.

AJ Pritchard and Abbie Quinnen

AJ Pritchard and Abbie Quinnen

The 23-year-old dancer admitted she and the former 'Strictly Come Dancing' pro's mum and dad and brother Curtis Pritchard were concerned that AJ hadn't had much air time in the show's first week, but viewers have perhaps seen even more than they bargained for of him in recent days after he jumped in the castle shower naked - much to Abbie's delight.

She exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "I'm just so happy everyone can appreciate him as much as I appreciate him now. I'm not jealous at all, I'm happy we can all share his peachy bum together.

"We were really worried at the beginning because we were all saying we had hardly seen AJ at all.

"But luckily this week he has been in it a lot more, which makes me and his family so happy."

Prior to the series airing in Wales for the first time there was much talk surrounding how the campmates would cope with the harsh Welsh wintery conditions in the castle, but Abbie doesn't think the temperature is affecting AJ too much after spotting him in just his pants the day after the male stars won a royal banquet.

She said: "I'm not sure if he's getting cold in the castle - AJ was in his pants the other day and he didn't seem too cold.

"But that could've been from the apple crumble the night before."

She joked: "I can imagine AJ ate as much as he could, almost border line making himself ill because he had eaten so much."

Abbie is determined to see more of her significant other - who co-hosts a podcast, 'AJ vs Curtis', with his brother Curtis - on screen in the coming days, so much so she has been voting for her man to take part in the creepy crawly-filled trials with every gadget she can lay her hands on.

She said: "I think he is going to become the entertainment. The more trials he does he is going to become even funnier.

"So I have been voting every single night. I've got voting parties on WhatsApp to make sure everyone is voting every single night.

"Me and mum have got an iPad, a phone and another phone voting every single night for AJ."


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