Former Pussycat Dolls star Ashley Roberts has come second in series 12 of reality TV show 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!'

The blonde beauty stormed into last night's final alongside Eastenders actress Charlie Brooks, beating off strong competition from celebrities including boxer David Haye, former Coronation Street actress Helen Flanagan and Made In Chelsea star Hugo Taylor.

Roberts lost out on the jungle queen crowning after facing off with Brooks for the 'Final Feast' Bushtucker Trial in which the pair had to eat delicacies including camel penis, witchety grubs and raw fish eyes in order to celebrate their final moments in the Australian camp with a Mexican-themed final meal.

After winning the luxury meal, US singer Roberts claimed: "That was the most disgusting thing I've ever done in my life. That eyeball and the popping of the eyeball. It smelled. I am never doing anything like that again in my entire life."

Despite being a popular campmate and completing her set trials with gusto, Roberts graciously accepted second place in last night's final (December 1) - adding she was stunned to have gotten so far in the competition.

She gushed to hosts Ant & Dec after leaving the jungle: "I have gotten beyond what I ever expected. I'm so proud of myself.

“I’m excited that people will get to know me as Ashley Roberts and not just a Pussycat Doll. I don’t think the UK had any idea who I was as an individual, so it’s pretty crazy that people have been picking up the phone and voting for me.”

It is now reported Roberts is set to make the most of her newfound popularity in the UK. Her friend Bobby Newberry - who was in Australia last night to welcome the 31-year-old American as she left the jungle - told the Sunday Mirror:

“Ashley would love to move to the UK and make a career there, and I think that’ll be her next move. She’s on a path ...she would love to do television presenting. She just missed out on a job at the X Factor USA, hosting the show and I know she was very keen to do that. If she got the opportunity to work on the UK show, she would do that in a heartbeat.

He added: “The UK loves her and they want more of her, so this isn’t the end of her on ­television screens in the UK. She’s a hugely talented person. Music has always been her passion and she actually has a new track out now. But she could easily turn her hand to presenting. She has told me she would love to do acting as well. Ashley’s a free spirit and she would go wherever she needed to go.”

Roberts and Brooks survived 22 days in the jungle.