Craig Charles has quit I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! after the sudden death of his brother.
An ITV spokesman said: "Craig decided to leave the camp earlier today and will be heading back to his family in the UK. We send our sincere condolences to Craig and his family."
The Coronation Street star was missing from the live section of last night's show after he was told about the death of his older brother Dean, who reportedly died after having a heart attack at his home in Spain.
Charles, 50, was not seen with his fellow contestants when presenters Ant and Dec entered the campsite on last night's episode.
Earlier, the duo told viewers they could not vote for Charles when deciding which celebrity should take part in the next bushtucker trial.
Meanwhile, The Only Way Is Essex star Gemma Collins told fellow campers the show had put her off TV for life after she quit the jungle.
She left after managing just three days while grumbling about hunger and complaining that she thought she might have malaria.
But Collins, 33, said she had no regrets about taking part and suggested she would refocus her life as she declared: "I believe that this is the start of me now, and nothing is going to change it.''
Her final moments were screened as she followed past contestants Brian Conley, Nigel Havers and Katie Price, who are among those who have previously opted to leave.
Explaining her decision to go, she said: "I have to start living my life the way I want to live it and this isn't it. Do you know what, I don't want any of this, I just don't want to have to put myself through such extreme measures all the time. I just want to be normal.''
And she told the others on the show: "I'm so out of my comfort zone that it's made me realise the girl I once was. I have become a character, a puppet of Gemma that is not the real me and no amount of money would keep me here.
"I just want to be me and I don't need to sit in the jungle for three weeks and play up to the cameras, I'm tired of it, I just want to be me. This has been the most life-changing thing I've ever done and the best thing I could have done for myself.''
Collins's manager Gemma Wheatley told BBC Radio 5 live that she would not be receiving her full fee.
Ms Wheatley said: "The way the contract is positioned, she gets a percentage for a certain number of days.
"But absolutely she won't get the full fee and it would be very unfair if she did. She hasn't done her time and she shouldn't receive her full fee and she's well aware of that. She will receive a small proportion of it."
In a recent interview, Charles told the Guardian one of his earliest memories was watching Doctor Who with his brother.
He said: "I remember my brother Dean hiding behind the couch, whereas I was completely unaffected by it. It made me feel really macho for a while."
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