ROCKHAMPTON comedian Joel Dommett has been named runner-up in this year's “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here”.

The 30-year-old former Castle School student has kept audiences across the country entertained for the past three weeks, surpassing early expectations to make the final alongside the Queen of the Jungle, Gogglebox star Scarlett Moffatt, and Emmerdale actor Adam Thomas who left the camp in third place.

After leaving the camp, Joel spoke on ITV about the simplicity of having no news or social media, joking that he would happily take part in a made-up sister show "I'm a Celebrity, get me back in there".

Suprised to have gotten so far, he joked: "I have never come second in anything! This is great..I have always come further down the line.

"I just feel like I have been thoroughly un-entertaining. I feel like I have been sat there watching Adam and asking how can I be as entertaining as that?"

When asked about the show's winner, he said: "She is the best human being I have ever met, she is fantastic."

In his final trail tonight, he was given a number of classic Bushtucker dishes to eat; a dead hawkmoth, a pig snout, fish eyes and goat genitals, topping it off with a glass of blended scorpions.

Before the final result, the campmates were given the chance to pay tribute to the final two, with fellow comedian Danny Baker called Joel "the dryest man on the planet" adding: "He's got wit, not just belly laughs, but wit."

TV presenter Martin Roberts also said: "He was really sensitive, he was really funny, and he was an absolute delight to be around."

During his time on the show, Joel not only took part in a range of gruelling Bushtucker trials, but was also given the covert job of causing mischief in the camp, having to get fellow campmates to call ex-Eastenders actor Larry Lamb “Sweetcheeks”, and convincing footballer Wayne Bridge that he had a crush on Carol Vorderman.

Prior to appearing on the ITV show, Joel has been in Skins and the British version of the popular Comedy Central show Impractical Jokers.

This year’s camp featured a range of household names, which also included former Strictly Come Dancing professional Ola Jordan, presenters Martin Roberts and Lisa Snowden, Olympic gold medallist Sam Quek, comedian Danny Baker and dancer Jordan Banjo.