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    Josie Gibson is staying in one of the world's surfing hotspots on Australia\u2019s Gold Coast – and she's riding the crest of a wave when it comes to her career.<\/p>\n

    The 38-year-old star is already the clear bookmakers\u2019 favourite to win I\u2019m A Celebrity before the show has started and is also expected to get more and more responsibility hosting This Morning now Holly Willloughby has left but it wasn\u2019t always the case and at her lowest Jodie was close to quitting TV after a staggering 72 rejection letters. <\/p>\n

    She said: "I have to pinch myself. I think if somebody would have told me that I\u2019d be doing what I\u2019ve been doing, presenting This Morning and on I\u2019m a Celebrity not even that long ago, I wouldn\u2019t have even believed you, never ever.<\/p>\n

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    "And it just goes to show, doesn\u2019t it? Now I feel like nothing\u2019s out of my reach – like don\u2019t ever think things are out of your reach, if you want to do something just tell yourself that you are that. You know what, before I became a proper television presenter, I tried 72 production places to get a job. This went on for years. I even went back and tried to get a normal job of what I used to do.<\/p>\n

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    "But I always want to be a TV presenter. So when I first opened up my Instagram, I put that I was a TV presenter. I wasn\u2019t at all but I told myself I was one for so many years, I ended up being one." Referring to her five-year-old son, who changed her life and her outlook, she added: \u201cI really found myself as a woman when I had Reg and I really came into my own. He really gave me the confidence that I always wanted.<\/p>\n

    "A lot of people think when you have a baby, life is sort of over for you whereas mine just really began again. It was when my career kicked off, when Reg was a baby. My confidence was definitely made better by motherhood yeah."<\/p>\n

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    Josie laughed and said "I can neither confirm or deny" when told she had turned down strictly -come-dancing>Strictly Come Dancing for I\u2019m A Celebrity but she added: " ITV is my home. I\u2019m an ITV face and ITV give me this chance. And without ITV, I wouldn\u2019t be where I am. So, yeah, that, you know, ITV really took a chance on me and they believed in me when I didn\u2019t even believe in myself. So that\u2019s why I stuck with ITV. <\/p>\n

    "I'm already where I want to be. I\u2019m so lucky, I\u2019m on a great daytime TV show, and I\u2019ve never been more content in all my life and I\u2019m so happy and I\u2019m so grateful for everything that I do get. Winning this? My god wouldn\u2019t it be amazing. I think surviving this would be enough for me! It would be a dream."<\/p>\n

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    Josie, a former Big Brother winner with a record high vote to win in 2010, has also been getting in shape before she heads into camp, leaving her son behind for the first time for such a long period. She said: "I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m in great shape but before I knew I was doing this I did hire a personal trainer and we\u2019ve been weight training. And then I\u2019ve been running with my hairdresser Maurice and everyone thinks that we are an item! <\/p>\n

    "We put a picture of us on Instagram, but he\u2019s actually my hair stylist. He\u2019s amazing. And he takes me running. I\u2019ve never been a runner but now I\u2019ve been running a few 5Ks here and there. It\u2019s finding the time, because I am here, there and everywhere and then I\u2019ve got Reggie."<\/p>\n

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    Told some celebs turn to the knife or botox to look good, she added: "The thing is, I can understand, you know, when people get desperate and they want to do that. But it wouldn\u2019t be for me, only because I don\u2019t want to mess around with my body, I like everything natural, I always go down the natural route.<\/p>\n

    "We\u2019re all different shapes and sizes on This Morning! And I think that\u2019s good cos you\u2019ve got to appeal to everybody. I think we\u2019ve come a long way." Josie\u2019s son Reggie will come out to meet her on jungle bridge, which is set to be an emotional reunion.<\/p>\n

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    She recently admitted he still shares a bed with her and they are normally inseparable. But Josie said: "I've done a lot of videos before I left and also I\u2019ve explained everything that I possibly can to him. And I\u2019ve been trying to explain that, since I signed up. So, each morning we\u2019ve been waking up and he says \u2018Mummy are we going to Australia now'\u2019 And I go 'not yet Reg\u2019'and he\u2019s going 'When are we going into the jungle?' So none of it has come as a shock to him, he\u2019s got his head around it.<\/p>\n

    "It is going to be weird but there\u2019ll be plenty of cuddles when I come out and at the end of the day this will better me and Reg and it\u2019s all going to be good. He\u2019s going to be experiencing Australia while I\u2019m going to be tucking down on mealworms. So I hope he appreciates it!"<\/p>\n

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