Australian swimming champion Lisa Curry has slammed the glossy magazines over salacious stories about her fiance while she was trapped in the South African jungle.
The former Olympic athlete, who is engaged to Elvis impersonator Mark Tabones, said stories published over the past few weeks implying the love of her life had been flirting with other women were "untrue and unfair".
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From golden girl to camp mother, see the best moments from Lisa Curry's time in I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! Vision: Network Ten.
Speaking with Fairfax Media just hours after being booted off Channel Ten's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Curry said she understands why there is so much interest in her private life, but wishes tabloids would check their facts.
"It's tough to read those stories," she said. "It's hard on us [as a couple] and hard on our family. My mum will call up and say, 'Lisa what's going on?' My poor mum has to read it as well.
"But the people who know the truth know the truth. And that's all that matters."
One particularly nasty story did, however, rattle the 15-time international gold medal winner. A few weeks into her 41-day stay in the South African jungle, a magazine published a story saying Tabone was flirting with several fans.
"He had his shirt off," Curry explained. "But he was actually going to see a woman with terminal cancer and he was changing into a nice shirt for this lady. That upset Mark a lot."
During her time in the jungle, Curry revealed she has not married Tabone yet because she still needs to officially divorce ex-husband Grant Kenny. It was widely reported last year that the pair had eloped.
As for why the Curry decided to return to reality television (she appeared on The Celebrity Apprentice Australia in 2011), the swimming champion said she has been asking herself that very question over the past few weeks. On set, Curry broke down into tears several times because she missed her partner and family.
"Well, I'd never been to South Africa before," she said. "And after travelling around Australia for two years and visiting a lot of rural towns and seeing how hard our farmers are doing, I wanted to do something.
"The days I was really struggling, I thought of the farmers who still get up every day to keep their farms going."
Like former evictees Carson Kressley and Ash Pollard, Curry thinks a woman will win this year's I'm A Celebrity for the first time in the show's history.
"It's out of Casey [Donovan] and Nat [Bassingthwaighte]," she said. "I think either one of them can take it out - it just depends on what the country thinks. Both are great people and I hope one of them wins it."