Jenny Eclair

Jenny Eclair is a well-known Comedian and novelist who took part in the tenth season of I'm a Celebrity UK, where she entered the jungle on Day 4 as a late entrée. On December 3rd,2010, Jenny came out in 3rd Place.

Background
Jenny was born on the 16th of March in 1960 to English parents in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Eclair returned to England when she was two years old, and she started her education at Queen Mary school. She studied at the Manchester Polytechnic School of Drama and joined a cabaret group variously referred to as Kathy Lacreme and the Rum Babas, and Cathy La Crème and the Rum Babies. After moving to London, Eclair's first job was at Camberwell Arts College as a life model which she did for about 2 terms. She then saw an advert in The Stage looking for novelty acts and found work doing punk poems. In 1989, she was named the Time Out Cabaret Award winner. After an early appearance as a German hotel worker in Auf Wiedersehen Pet Eclair starred in the ITV drama The Bill and appeared in the early 1990s Channel 4 comedy series Packet of Three with Frank Skinner, as well as the follow-up series Packing Them In. In 1995, she became the first female solo winner of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival's Perrier Comedy Award. In 1997, she played "Josie" in the stage play Steaming by Nell Dunn. In 2001, she published her first novel Camberwell Beauty.