Shaun Ryder tells I'm A Celebrity camp of troubled childhood

Tough times: Shaun Ryder was a hell-raiser
11 April 2012
The Weekender

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Former Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder has spoken of his troubled childhood.

The ex-chart star, who is relieved that his nemesis Gillian McKeith has been booted out of the jungle, opened up to his I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! campmates.

As a child he used to "love getting chased... stealing and entering and vandalism", he said.

The former hell-raiser, 48, claimed: "On our industrial estate we had a Schweppes and a Bulmers and by the age of 12 I'd screwed the lot of 'em. I robbed them all. I sold the booze to an ice cream man."

He added: "Once someone broke into our junior school, chopped the heads off the hamster and guinea pigs, shat all over the place, smashed the place up and wrote Shaun Ryder on the blackboard. They spelled me name wrong, of course.

"Before I was 10, three kids grabbed hold of me and held me down while one booted the hell out of me.

"We also used to get ping pong balls, put them in silver paper, burn them and they'd be smoke bombs."

Ryder, who was known for his drug binges, said of McKeith being voted out of the show: "It was wonderful to say goodbye to Gillian, absolutely great. I thought the public made the right decision. The public are very intelligent, wise."

Linford Christie had shouted at the TV nutritionist, who aroused the suspicions of her campmates by apparently fainting just before a task, "Don't faint across the bridge" as she prepared to leave.

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