Cerys Can't Wait To See Marc

Cerys Matthews said today that she "can't wait" to see fellow I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here star Marc Bannerman.

Viewers of the show who'd watched the growing love affair between the two have started to doubt the true depth of their feelings after the former Eastenders star failed to fly out to Australia to meet Matthews when she left the jungle.

As she arrived at London's Heathrow Airport she insisted that her first priority had to be her children, who were travelling with her.

She said: "I'm very excited to see Marc. I can't wait to see him. But my first priority was my children. They're just babies and I had to sort them out first."

Responding to suggestions that she had lapped up the after show hospitality rather than rush home for a reunion with Marc, she said: "I didn't go to any parties. I was just getting my children sorted and then we've been flying since Sunday."

Asked about her hopes for a long-lasting relationship with him, she smiled coyly and said: "It's so special I just want to keep it a bit quiet."

Christopher Biggins was crowned King of the Jungle after winning the ITV reality show. He beat Janice Dickinson, the self-proclaimed "world's first supermodel".