Fatima
Fatima had a shock when cockroach crawled up her nose and disappeared into her nasal passage in one of the most astonishing scenes of the series.
Pat and Fatima received the least number of public votes and went up against each other in the Bush Tucker Trial ‘Fill Your Face - Extreme’. The loser would see themselves leaving the jungle for good.
The Olympic champion had just had 7,500 cockroaches poured into her Perspex helmet when one of the critters crawled into her nose. The trial was halted as Fatima felt the cockroach crawling around her nose and she tried in vain to blow it out naturally. Medic Bob who was on standby was called to syringe her nasal passage and after a couple of attempts it sluiced the creepy crawly through her nose and out of her mouth.
At the start of the trial, Ant and Dec asked how they were feeling. Fatima said: “What will be will be…I am certainly not ready to go home yet and I will give it a good go”.
Not relishing the prospect of going up against an Olympic athlete, Pat said: “I would like to stay as well, I think I have done ok so far in everything I have been asked to do, my mate here agrees we have known each other a long time. It is going to be difficult going up against her in anything. Not even just the physical but she also has the mental strength of an athlete”.
The object of the trial was to put on a plastic bubble helmet which would be filled with various jungle critters and stand in it for 30 seconds to score a point. There were five rounds and the person that scored the most points wins and goes back to camp and feeds the camp.
It was decided in a coin toss over who would go first with Fatima winning and strategically decided to go first. Inside the helmet Fatima faced soldier crabs, which she remained focused and won a point. When asked how that one was Fatima smiled: “Not too bad that one…not too bad”. Pat attempted the same round appearing more nervous but also won an equal point.
It was then Pat’s turn to go first in round two and this time they had to face meal worms, crickets and scorpions. Pat looked petrified when asked how he was feeling by Ant and Dec and replied “Never better”. After Pat received another point it was Fatima’s turn to take on the creatures for which she also gained another point. When asked how she was feeling Fatima chanted: “bring it on!” and added “it’s not a problem…I enjoyed it I am in the zone”.
Round three Fatima turn was up and was asked by Ant and Dec if there was anything she wouldn’t like she replied: “I don’t like things that bite…I will deal with it I am not going to give in”. To which Pat replied: “I am going to try my best I am up against a world champion but whatever I have been here before”. Fatima was this time faced with water spiders and huntsmen spiders. Fatima received another point and admitted to Ant and Dec “I will deal with spiders but I don’t like them especially around the face”. Pat feared his turn revealing: “No I don’t like them”. Pat remained calm and matched Fatima’s point.
Pat was then straight into round four and had to endure five snakes. Ant and Dec told Pat that one of the snakes didn’t appear to want to get in with him. Pat confused with fear replied: “Well he is only human”. Pat counts down the final five seconds with relief to gain another point and relayed to Ant and Dec “One of them was starting to tighten around my neck a little bit”. Fatima was up next and told Ant and Dec on whether she liked snakes “I wouldn’t keep them as a pet” and went on to win another point.
Pat commented when it was realised they were on a tie “Look I am up against the toughest woman in the world and I don’t just mean in sport…living with her is just like living with Rambo no offence she is tough I am going to try my best”.
Fatima then went into the fifth and final round and needed to endure 7,500 cockroaches and struggled when one got up her nose. She shrieked: “I can feel it wriggling in my nose”.
Eventually the critter was freed when Dr Bob placed a water syringe up her nose. Pat then decided to compete against Fatima in the final round and reached a tiebreaker with both winning the five points.
The tiebreaker challenge involved Fatima and Pat digging into a box of meal worms and slime and competing to find three stars with their mouths and hands tied behind their back. Fatima got stuck in there and found all three making her the winner and Pat now evicted. Fatima on her win claimed: “when it is head to head you just have to get in there and work until you get to the end there is no point stopping”.
Fatima then returned to the camp and Pat left the jungle.