FORMER Scottish ­Labour leader Kezia Dugdale risks being critter-cised for abandoning her constituents to go on I’m A Celeb.

The late entrant, 36, will fly to Australia this weekend to join campmates.

3 Kezia Dugdale's appearance in I'm A Celeb will mean she'll miss next week’s Budget and leave voters without a representative for weeks Credit: PA:Press Association

The Member of the Scottish Parliament’s involvement is set to cause a huge political row.

And it comes at a crucial point for her crisis-hit party, with her stand-in replacement Alex Rowley forced to quit this week and a new leader set to be announced today.

The last serving politician to go into the jungle — Tory MP Nadine Dorries in 2012 — was suspended by her party.

She later had to apologise in the Commons for refusing to declare how much she was paid for the ITV show. This week Kezia, who is in a relationship with SNP MSP Jenny Gilruth, hosted back-to-back constituency surgeries in a bid to avoid flak over those she will miss in camp.

3 The last serving politician to go into the jungle — Tory MP Nadine Dorries in 2012 — was suspended by her party Credit: ITV

A source said: “This signing is bound to annoy a lot of taxpayers. Kezia is going to be unable to perform her day job and serve her constituents for several weeks while she’s in the show.

“It might be good publicity for her, but there’s some who will think it’s not so good for the Labour party.”

The source added: “Bosses know she’ll get people talking. Kezia’s a strong figure with some forthright views which she will bring to the show.”

Kezia, a critic of Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn, was leader for two years before resigning suddenly in August.

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3 George Galloway was a Repect Party MP when he sacrificed his own dignity in the 2006 run of Celebrity Big Brother Credit: Rex Features

She stepped down to give her successor “space and time” to prepare for the next Scottish Parliament election in 2021.

Kezia is Scottish Labour’s third leader to resign since the 2014 independence referendum.

Her interim replacement Alex Rowley also stood aside this week after The Scottish Sun revealed abusive texts he had sent a former partner.

One more celebrity is yet to be named to join the camp in Murwillumbah, New South Wales.

One source close to Dugdale said that the Labour leader was going into the Jungle to "speak about politics and Labour values on one of the most popular and watched TV shows in the UK" and would be donating her MSP's salary from the time she's there to charity.

They added she would be back "in time for the Budget".

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