Janice Dickinson sues ITV over I'm a Celebrity accident in High Court

Janice Dickinson is suing ITV in the High Court over injuries she suffered during I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in South Africa, filing a personal injury claim that seeks damages. The 70-year-old US model quit the 2023 edition after tripping in the dark at the jungle camp.

Documents filed on September 19 by celebrity-law firm Taylor Hampton list the case as a personal injury claim against ITV, The Mirror reported. The filing references Dickinson's account of the prerecorded October 2022 incident, when she tripped while trying to locate the toilet in the middle of the night. She has previously described the fall in interviews and said ITV paid her show fee and medical bills.

Dickinson, who was 70 at the time, told The Sun's TV Mag that she fell after the campfire had gone out and it was as dark as it could be, prompting her to try to reach the restroom from memory. She described tripping and flying flat on her face, with blood on her nose and a gash on her chin, and said dirt and stones were embedded in her injuries. "Blood was gushing from all these areas, and there was dirt and stones embedded in my face," she recalled. She said she was found by campmates Fatima Whitbread and Phil Tuffnell, helped back to camp, and then transported to a medical hut before an ambulance took her to a regional hospital in South Africa.

Dickinson said ITV paid her medical bills once she returned to Los Angeles and that she later required laser skin treatment five days a week for healing. She added that there remains an indentation on her forehead. She has also said she would have liked to return to the camp, but production decided otherwise and kept her out of filming.

The lawsuit marks a new development in ongoing coverage of safety and liability on the long-running reality series, with ITV yet to publicly respond to the claim.