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I'm A Celebrity runner-up Shaun Ryder: My teeth cost £25,000

I'm A Celeb star Shaun Ryder spent thousands on new teeth

Shaun Ryder's teeth were broken and rotten before his investment at the dentist

I'm a Celebrity runner-up Shaun Ryder had a beaming smile on the reality show - thanks to his £25,000 teeth.

The former frontman of band the Happy Mondays replaced his not-so-pearly whites after years of drug abuse left his gums in a terrible state.

‘I had really good teeth until I got into my 30s,' Shaun, 48, told jungle mate Britt Ekland.

‘But with the copious amount of drug abuse it tended to go funny.'

Shaun, who has now been clean for a decade, admits to trying everything - including crack, coke, acid, heroin, ecstasy, speed and weed.

He was worried his new gnashers might not survive the School Dinners Bushtucker Trial, but the expensive molars held up.

‘They're actually industrial diamonds, like what they stuck the tiles on the space shuttle with,' he tells the Guardian.

‘They're worth about 25 grand.'

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