I’m A Celeb star Edwina Currie lives her life like a Carry On movie!

I know more, much more, than I want to know about Edwina Currie’s sex life and so do the millions of viewers who watch I’m A Celebrity…

Is there nothing this woman won’t reveal, in intimate detail, about her encounters with men.

Does this former Health Minister in John Major’s Government really think bragging about her sexual exploits makes her interesting? Well, she’s mistaken. The trouble with Edwina is she tries too hard.

I met her in the Palace of Westminster several years ago after she’d written a steamy novel about political life.

She was wearing a vivid, emerald green suit, killer heels and sheer black tights. We sat in deep leather armchairs sipping tea from china cups and she gazed around her at the men in grey suits coming and going.

“See that one over there?” she said, nodding at a well-known, middle-aged political figure.

There was a knowing look and a smug smile. “Fine man.” And she wasn’t talking about his politics.

Edwina Currie is incorrigibly flirtatious. She’s also brash, amusing and an expert at the female gossip game.

She’s a self-made woman who knows what she wants out of life and has always been determined to get it.

Edwina has been married twice and has two daughters. To talk to, she’s very down-to-earth and practical but possessed of a deep-seated need to shock.

“Writing about sex excites me,” she told me. “It’s reliving the moment.”

I thought then it was a particularly cringe-making comment. And that’s what she’s doing on I’m A Celebrity, spicing up her anecdotes, but it’s making her look faintly ridiculous.

Edwina has always had a knack for reinventing herself.

When her political career ended she refused to be beaten and wrote novels and her memoirs, in which she revealed her affair with that most unlikely sex object, former PM John Major.

How his mild-mannered wife Norma must have suffered as she read the revelations in that book.

I don’t understand the “tell it all” streak in women like Edwina. Is it about money, notoriety, or just to sell a book?

Why hurt someone you once cared about? And why embarrass yourself and your family?

Last month, Valerie Treiweiller former partner of French President Francois Hollande, wrote a devastating book about their life together.

He came out of it looking like a prat. But she once loved him so what does that say about her?

Women do themselves no favours when they rush into print to talk about their sex life. And reality TV is no place to boast about being a cougar.

Please, Edwina, have a bit of dignity. Wrinklies and sex aren’t a steamy combination. Even in the jungle.