I’m A Celebrity’s Jamie Lynn Spears revealed her famous sister Britney’s very wacky rider she requested during her Vegas residency.
The actress, 32, spoke to her campmates about her family and their traditions on Monday’s episode of the jungle show.
Jamie Lynn revealed that Britney had a very unusual request when she performed her Piece Of Me residency in Vegas between 2013 and 2017.
Outside of her shows at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, The Hit Me Baby One More Time superstar stayed in a luxurious three-floor suite at the Rio, which had previously been inhabited by Elton John.
After Made In Chelsea‘s Sam Thompson described to Jamie Lynn how he imagined her home life would be, she revealed Britney is a big fan of crawfish – and that it was her special request in Vegas.
She said: ‘We’re from Louisiana, we love crawfish. My sister and all of us, we love crawfish so much, but she [Britney] only wanted the good crawfish.
‘So the company in Louisiana would have them overnighted in a box for her, in an ice chest… Even in Vegas, she’d have crawfish, [she’d be] eating crawfish in the Elton John suite.’
Britney’s grandmother used to be well known for her crawfish across the state of Louisiana.
For years, she had her own business called Granny’s Seafood and Deli, where Britney used to work the cash register and clean tables when she was a young girl.
Louisiana is famed for its crayfish – or crawfish – and popular gatherings include ‘crawfish boils’, which centre around eating the crustacean.
The Spears family hosts an annual crawfish boil, with Britney harbouring a special love for the fishy meal.
Elsewhere in Monday’s episode, Jamie emotionally opened up about her eldest daughter Maddie’s near-death experience on Monday night’s installment of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
The younger sister of Britney spoke to her fellow campmates about the traumatic ordeal which took place in February 2017 when Maddie was just eight years old.
In the incident, Maddie was riding an ATV near a pond on the family’s Louisiana property when she tried to steer away from a drainage ditch.
According to a police report, she ‘overcorrected’ and ended up in the pond – still secured by her seatbelt and trapped to the ATV.
She spent two minutes submerged under the water while Jamie was just 100 yards away – before being airlifted to hospital, where her mother asked a priest to read her last rites.
As the campmates sat around the fireplace, Jamie Lynn recounted the horrific ordeal as she struggled to hold back tears.
She said: ‘I almost lost my oldest daughter… she drowned and we couldn’t save her.
‘We tried really hard. She was trapped under a little side-by-side that we ride around our pond.
‘This is in 2017. She was 8 or 9 or something like that. My father-in-law, my mother-in-law, me and my husband, we run to jump in to save her.
‘In that moment you think: “This is not real, she’s going to pop up, this isn’t real.”‘
Maddie was ultimately freed by EMTs and brought to the hospital in stable but critical condition – after Jamie and her husband Jamie Watson desperately tried to save her but couldn’t get her out of the safety belt.
Jamie continued: ‘I could feel her arm, and I’m jerking it, I couldn’t get her up because it’s a pretty heavy machine.
‘In that moment you think, you know logically she’s been under water too long… nobody can live if they’ve been under water this long. You logically are thinking these things.
‘Then you hear the sirens coming. Thank god my mother-in-law, first thing she did was call 911… she was caught in the safety netting. So when they got there, she was not alive. They took her from me and they incubated her.’
Describing her own experience, she said: ‘I was sitting on the rocks, I’d thrown up on myself, the adrenalin, then I heard her [my mother-in-law] call my mum and say, “Lynn, we’ve lost Maddie”.
‘Then the fire fighter came over three seconds later and was like, “We’ve got a pulse, we’ve got a pulse..”‘
‘They airlifted her… she’s hooked up on life support, breathing machines and all that… they come in, a priest to read her her last rites, and when they did, her body physically sat up, her spirit responded to it for whatever reason… ‘
Maddie finally regained consciousness and was surrounded by family who stayed by her hospital bed following the accident.
She was able to leave the hospital six days after the first fell into the pond – and the now 15-year-old has since been able to enjoy a perfectly normal life with no repercussions.
Jamie added: ‘She got better and better every day and walked out of the hospital. This has no repercussions.
‘So that’s when I became Catholic. For about five minutes I thought I’d lost my daughter and then I was given the miracle of having her back.’
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