Stephen Baldwin was forced to quit I’m a “Celebrity”…Get Me Out of Here and not for the reasons we thought. Initials reports said the youngest Baldwin brother quit the show because he was dealing with his house that is rumored to be going to foreclosure. But over the weekend he called in to radio show on Blog Talk Radio and said the reason he quit the show is because of his over 125 bug bites and 2 of those bug bites had larve implanted in them. Ewww, ewww, ewww…
“I suffered in the first eight days of production, while in the jungle, over 125 insect bites on my body,†he told Kevin McCullough, co-host of Baldwin/McCullough Xtreme Radio.
“And two of them – much to my surprise – became kind of lumpy initially. Within 72 hours they were these kind of half-dollar-size lumps under my skin that were probably about an inch thick. [The] reactions just weren’t the same as the other 123, so to speak.
“I did get to take some time with the medic, who explained to me that, in his opinion, he didn’t think that is was the ‘implantation of insect larvae into my flesh,’ but that – oh, gosh – that’s what it could be.
“So… they tested these things and, sure enough, Stevie B. was ‘pregnant.’
“I videotaped this process where they put this kind of thick, tough medical adhesive tape that has a chemical compound on it that suffocates the larvae while it’s beneath your flesh.
“And as it suffocates, it tries to back itself out of the hole that it’s burrowed into your skin. And when it does that, the tail section of it gets stuck to the tape.â€
OMG! That would totally freak and gross me out.
For the first time since the show started, the “celebrities” are now religion-free without him and Speidi. Actually now that both Janice Dickinson and him are gone, there really are no celebrities left on the show. And as much as I don’t want to watch it tonight at 8p on NBC, I know I will wind up checking it out to see how they explain his departure.
BTW you can listen to the whole interview on Blog Talk Radio, his part starts at 68:00 in.
