Helen Flanagan and I’m A Celebrity stars will face ‘horrifying’ lack of privacy due to new camp feature
HELEN Flanagan will face a “horrifying” lack of privacy due to a new feature in the I’m A Celebrity: South Africa camp.
The stars will face no privacy thanks to an open-air dunny which is entirely open to the elements - and prying eyes.
It’s part of the programme’s most savage camp ever, where the long drop is based a lot closer to the sleeping and living quarters than usual.
An ITV source said: “We’re not just dealing with spiders and snakes here, there are real, man-eating wild animals in South Africa so the dunny is much closer to camp than in Australia.
“We just couldn’t have the A-listers roaming the dangerous bush in the night.
“So it’s a lot closer to camp which has its highs and lows - there is zero privacy, it’s totally open to the elements and for the women especially, left their modesty at risk.”
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The celebs, which also include Carol Vorderman and Amir Khan, will face other challenges thanks to the series including the highest trial in the show’s 21 year history.
They are forced to walk the plank and balance on huge red balls suspended a whopping 840 m - 2,760 ft - in the air.
An ITV source added: “If the celebrities think they learned some tricks of the trade in Australia, they are in for a shock. Producers this year had an entire national park to play with.
“Believe me, there were no holds barred.”
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Other new twists include the use of a vuvuzela horn - South Africa’s national instrument - instead of a klaxon.
The series was filmed last summer in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, where the highest point is a hill called Khandzalive in the south-west near Berg-en-Dal.
It comes as ITV shared a new trailer for the series, which has been dubbed its ‘all stars’ as it gathers the programme’s most memorable names since its first ever outing in 2002.
In one clip, Carol, 62, is seen suspended hundreds of metres in the air before it cuts to Helen, 32, as she makes her way across inflatable balls hanging in the sky.
She will be joined by the late Princess Diana's former butler Paul Burrell, 64, Diversity dancer Jordan Banjo, 30, Happy Mondays star Shaun Ryder, 60, retired javelin thrower Fatima Whitbread, 62, and former English international cricketer Phil Tufnell, 56, with more celebs to come.
The action begins on April 24 on ITV1 and ITVX.