Why Russell's falling trousers caused a bit of a nessun trauma

msn.com:

Being locked up in a castle on his 54th birthday during the last series of I'm A Celebrity. . . gave Russell Watson a chance to reflect on his own mortality.

The opera star - who had survived two devastating brain tumours - recalls waking up feeling terrified by the memory of how close he had been to death. "I was lying there thinking, 'I'm not going to hear from the kids today for the first time in their life on my birthday, I'm not going to hear from my mum and I'm not going to see my wife Louise'," he says. "Because I thought I was going to die at one point, birthdays have an extra special significance to me.