I’m A Celebrity’s haunted castle – where the trials and bathroom facilities scared her more than ghosts and ghouls. But now Dame Arlene Phillips is bringing light into people’s lives by teaching delivery drivers a routine to Morecambe and Wise’s Bring Me Sunshine to help them cheer up the lonely job.The former Strictly judge had a brush with the paranormal in last year’s I’m A Celeb as she heard the voices of soldiers and children in spooky Gwrych Castle.
And campmate Richard Madeley entertained the group with ghost stories.But Arlene, 78, says she reckons what people believe are ghosts are actually images they manifest themselves when they need them.
And she cites one experience of seeing her mother which was “so real her spirit could have been there”. She says: “Ghosts are a need for someone to have something in their life at that moment."I was gutted when Richard couldn’t come back in because of the Covid rules – he had the most amazing ghost stories – however I don’t believe in ghosts."I believe you can experience what people think is a ghost but it is a half dream."It’s chilling to hear a story but it’s a manifestation.
There was one half dream I had many years ago."My mother, who died when I was 15, was with me, leaning across the bed. It was so real within the moment her spirit could have been there." Arlene’s toughest – and proudest – I’m A Celeb moment came in one of the dreaded Castle Trials.
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