Boozy 'Bushtucker Trial' leaves son heartbroken
By Paul Byrne
A DRUNKEN dad broke his son's heart by eating his three pet stick insects in a home-grown Bushtucker Trial with five mates.
The boozy pals were watching the final of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here on TV when Pete Wilson produced a meal of jellied eels, cod roe, fish eyes, tripe, ox tongue, raw eggs and tequila worms.
After the feast, they couldn't agree who had won so they decided to settle it by eating a live bug.
And all eyes settled on the Australian leaf insects in a tank in the corner of the room.
Pete's seven-year-old son Adam had named them Matt, Charlie and James after the members of his favourite pop band Busted.
Mechanic Pete, 27, whose wife Mandy and Adam were asleep upstairs, said: "I don't remember that much about it.
"The tequila was flowing all night and I guess I must have drunk too much. We were in hysterics watching Paul Burrell's Bushtucker Trial and we were getting more and more drunk by the minute. By the time the show was over, we were smashed. We were so drunk we would have eaten almost anything. The food tasted awful, but everyone was desperate to be king of the jungle and we just kept going until we ran out of things to eat.
"I remember us arguing over who the winner was and someone said we could settle it by seeing who would be the first to eat a live insect.
"One of the lads spotted Adam's stick insects in their tank in the corner of the room and said: 'What about one of those?'
"I decided to go for it and wolfed all three down, so there was no doubt about the winner.
"I can still remember the sound of the first one crunching in my mouth.
"I'm surprised I didn't throw up. It was disgusting.
"I felt physically sick the next morning when I remembered what I'd done, but it had nothing to do with what I'd eaten.
"Adam was in tears when I came down for breakfast. He said Matt, Charlie and James had escaped from their tank and he couldn't find them anywhere. He'd turned the house upside down looking for them and he asked me to help him.
Pete, from Leeds, said: "I've never felt so bad in my life. I didn't know what to tell him.
"Once he'd left for school, I owned up to Mandy.
"The guilt was killing me. Not surprisingly, she went ballistic.
"She kept saying: 'How could you?' She told me to get out the house and she hasn't spoken to me since."
Pete, who has begged his son to forgive him, added: "I've been an absolute idiot. I feel like the world's worst dad.
"I will do absolutely anything to make it up to Adam.
"He hasn't spoken to me since he found out, but I'm hoping he will forgive me."
By Paul Byrne
A DRUNKEN dad broke his son's heart by eating his three pet stick insects in a home-grown Bushtucker Trial with five mates.
The boozy pals were watching the final of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here on TV when Pete Wilson produced a meal of jellied eels, cod roe, fish eyes, tripe, ox tongue, raw eggs and tequila worms.
After the feast, they couldn't agree who had won so they decided to settle it by eating a live bug.
And all eyes settled on the Australian leaf insects in a tank in the corner of the room.
Pete's seven-year-old son Adam had named them Matt, Charlie and James after the members of his favourite pop band Busted.
Mechanic Pete, 27, whose wife Mandy and Adam were asleep upstairs, said: "I don't remember that much about it.
"The tequila was flowing all night and I guess I must have drunk too much. We were in hysterics watching Paul Burrell's Bushtucker Trial and we were getting more and more drunk by the minute. By the time the show was over, we were smashed. We were so drunk we would have eaten almost anything. The food tasted awful, but everyone was desperate to be king of the jungle and we just kept going until we ran out of things to eat.
"I remember us arguing over who the winner was and someone said we could settle it by seeing who would be the first to eat a live insect.
"One of the lads spotted Adam's stick insects in their tank in the corner of the room and said: 'What about one of those?'
"I decided to go for it and wolfed all three down, so there was no doubt about the winner.
"I can still remember the sound of the first one crunching in my mouth.
"I'm surprised I didn't throw up. It was disgusting.
"I felt physically sick the next morning when I remembered what I'd done, but it had nothing to do with what I'd eaten.
"Adam was in tears when I came down for breakfast. He said Matt, Charlie and James had escaped from their tank and he couldn't find them anywhere. He'd turned the house upside down looking for them and he asked me to help him.
Pete, from Leeds, said: "I've never felt so bad in my life. I didn't know what to tell him.
"Once he'd left for school, I owned up to Mandy.
"The guilt was killing me. Not surprisingly, she went ballistic.
"She kept saying: 'How could you?' She told me to get out the house and she hasn't spoken to me since."
Pete, who has begged his son to forgive him, added: "I've been an absolute idiot. I feel like the world's worst dad.
"I will do absolutely anything to make it up to Adam.
"He hasn't spoken to me since he found out, but I'm hoping he will forgive me."