Beverley Callard shares emotional update after leaving I’m A Celeb

The former Corrie star quit the show due to medical reasons

I'm A Celebrity All-Stars is filmed ahead of airing on TV, with the celebs being flown out to South Africa in September of last year.

Callard took to social media to explain the reason behind her shock exit in last night's episode.

"I didn’t feel very well this morning… and the medics have advised I can’t return to camp. I’ve got to go home. I don’t want to go," she told her followers.

"I’m absolutely gutted. I wanted to finish."

"Of course, I didn't know then that I had cancer, but I just knew that it was the last couple of days there that I hadn't felt very well," she continued.

She went on to explain what exactly happened.

"What happened was, I went into the Bush Telegraph and apparently, I lost consciousness for a little while. I just wasn't feeling myself. They took me to a medical hut, and they were amazing; they really looked after me, and they said you can't go back.

"And I said, 'Don't say that, don't send me home, I'll be fine. I wanted to succeed and make it through to the end, but that was the start of everything. It's made me really emotional, but I will beat this. I will beat it."

"I feel so proud of what I achieved," she said of her time on the show. "Just got to get through this real-life trial now."

Speaking previously to Patrick Kielty on RTE’s Late Late Show, the star opened up about her diagnosis.“I’m fine, I’m absolutely fine. My head was a bit mashed for the first few days.

“It’s very early stages, and I am along with thousands of other women as well.

“It’s early stages, I travel back to the UK tomorrow, just for a couple of weeks, they’re going to test lymph nodes and lymph glands and all that.

“But then I need an operation and some radiotherapy, and then I’m coming back to Fair City, so I will be back in just a few weeks.”

Callard recently started a new job on Irish soap Fair City.

“I got asked to do it almost a year ago now, and I said, ‘Oh I don’t know if I can do another soap, I don’t know whether I should do that’.

“And they said, ‘well, just have a look at it’.

“In the UK it’s quite difficult to get and so I was watching it on my computer, and I just became addicted to Fair City and I just thought, this is fantastic.

“The editing is so good. The scripts are amazing. Got my husband to have a look at it. And I said, ‘I can’t say no to this’.”

Callard is playing Lily, the long lost mother to Gwen, in the Dublin-set soap, and plans to move to Co Wicklow with her husband.