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'Love rat' Marc Bannerman WON'T return to meet Cerys in the jungle

Love rat Marc Bannerman has gone back on his promise to meet jungle sweetheart Cerys Matthews when she leaves the I'm A Celebrity camp.

Despite his romantic declaration by letter that he would be in Australia to meet the ex-Catatonia singer, the former EastEnders star now WON'T be there to meet her.

According to reports today, Bannerman has turned down ITV's offer to return to Australia and stay in the plush Versace Hotel with the rest of the evicted contestants.

A spokesman for I'm A Celebrity revealed yesterday that Bannerman, 34, is not planning to fly back to Australia to meet Cerys, but instead has recorded a video message that will be played to her when she gets evicted.

The spokesman said: "Bearing in mind the show ends on Friday and the time it takes to fly to Australia, that possibility now seems extremely unlikely."

However she added: "Marc is meant to be filming a short video message for Cerys though.

"When she leaves the jungle, on her eviction, it will be played to her. I have no idea what he will say because he hasn't filmed it yet.

After he was the first person to voted off by the public, the star flew back to Britain to deal with the fall-out of his onscreen flirtations and supposedly talk to his live-in girlfriend of three years, Sarah Matravers, 33.

But at the weekend actress Sarah revealed how she once put her arm through a window to stop a drink-fuelled fight between the two.

And yesterday Sarah packed up and moved out of their north London home after the pair's two-year relationship was left in tatters following his growing closeness with Cerys.

Removal men were spotted at the estranged couple's residence packing her possessions, including a kitchen table, mattress, lampshade and plants into the back of a truck.

Marc's decision is bound to come as a blow to 38-year-old Cerys, who has been telling her jungle campmates how excited she is about seeing him again.

And yesterday Matthews was cautioned by former model Janice Dickinson not to rush into things with the former soap star, and urging mother-of-two Cerys to think of her children first.

She said: "You need someone who wants the package deal. The children have to come first. Go slow."

The three-times divorced mother of two, who claims to have had numerous affairs with Hollywood's great and good including Jack Nicholson and Mick Jagger said she spoke from experience.

She added: "There are guys that, yes, they want it at first, to be with the woman and they love the children and then they push the children out.

"It's happened to me on several occasions. It's the first thing I look for."

Meanwhile, 43-year-old Anna Ryder Richardson who was the sixth person to be voted off I'm A Celebrity told Ant & Dec she had enjoyed her time, despite the camp feeling like a prison.

The former Changing Rooms interior designer said: "The jungle is fantastic. It's kind of a prison. Even though it's a beautiful prison," she said.

She named Cerys and Marc as the people she grew closest to but denied anything physical had happened between the pair.

Source and Pictures: Daily Mail