Miguel’s I’m a Celeb win an act of redemption after his Dancing With The Stars failure

Miguel Mestre says his I’m a Celeb win is an act of redemption after his confidence was shattered on Dancing With The Stars last year.

Miguel Maestre considers his I’m a Celeb win an act of “redemption” after his 2019 TV talent show failure.

Miguel was last night crowned King of the Jungle after beating out Dale Thomas and Rhonda Burchmore in the finale of the Channel 10 show.

The win comes less than a year after Miguel was the first person to be booted from Dancing With The Stars, an experience that Perez Hilton said left the chef scarred.

Speaking to news.com.au last week, Perez said: “He confided in me that after being voted out first on Dancing With The Stars, it really got to him,” Perez said.

“He told me that after Dancing With the Stars, any request that he received to do something that was not cooking related, he turned them all down for six months.”

Miguel Maestre on I'm a Celeb.

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Miguel spoke to news.com.au this morning just minutes before the official wrap party kicked off in South Africa, and he confirmed what Perez said.

“That’s the truth,” the I’m a Celeb winner said. “It rocked my world a little bit. I tried so hard for something and I got so little out of it.

“This time it was the whole country doing the judging, so instead of the three grumpy judges it was actually the whole country getting behind me and just voting for me for who I am,” he said after his win.

“This is a little bit of redemption … I am over the moon.”

In being crowned King of the Jungle, Miguel won $100,000 for his chosen charity, R U OK?, the same charity he was hoping to raise money for on Dancing With The Stars.

“I didn’t go very far in the competition (last year), but now one year later we raise all this money and all this awareness,” he told news.com.au. “It’s amazing.”

This isn’t the first time Miguel has spoken about how shattered he was after his Dancing With The Stars experience. In an interview with Starts at 60, he admitted that he “almost crumbled” after his exit from the show.

“I was trying to represent all the collective chefs of Australia and trying to be very strong in my mind,” he explained to the site last year. “I am a strong person, I’ve worked my arse off in a kitchen all my life and people think I’m tough and always happy, but I almost crumbled on national TV when the people said I had to go home because that was a real moment … I look back now and I feel like I was almost going to crumble.”

Dancing With The Stars 2019 cast: Jimmy Rees, Cassandra Thorburn, Constance Hall, Miguel Maestre, Olympia Valance, Curtly Ambrose, Michelle Bridges, Denise Scott, Samuel Johnson, Courtney Act and Jett Kenney. Picture: Ten

“I felt like I wasn’t good enough,” Miguel said. “In life, people are always going to judge your life, and life isn’t all sunshine and butterflies … But you have to assume that you’re going to stand up again.”

And stand up again is exactly what he did.