I’m A Celebrity uses largest number of critters for single Bushtucker Trial ever as 120,000 creatures rain down on brave campmates
MORE than 120,000 jungle critters will be used in this year's first I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! Bushtucker Trial.
It is the largest number of creatures used for a single trial in the show’s 14-year history — and they will rain down on four unlucky campmates.
They are Goggleboxer Scarlett Moffatt, 25, Olympic gold medallist Sam Quek, 28, former Strictly pro Ola Jordan, 34, and Diversity dancer Jordan Banjo, 23.
They will enter the Tomb of Torment, where they will have to endure rats, mealworms, spiders, crickets and cockroaches.
It is their punishment for failing a challenge set before they had even entered the jungle.
The Saviours Challenge saw the ten celebrities pair up at their luxury Gold Coast hotel and try to save each other from the task.
Jordan, Ola, TV star Carol Vorderman, 55, Emmerdale actor Adam Thomas, 28, and comedian Joel Dommett, 30, were the first to arrive.
Hosts Ant and Dec said they had to pick another celebrity via a TV screen to compete on their behalf.
Carol chose TV presenter Lisa Snowdon, 44. Jordan bagsed Scarlett, Joel wanted ex-footballer Wayne Bridge, 36, and Adam selected fellow actor Larry Lamb, 69.
Ola went for Rio hockey star Sam.
The pickers were told they would now be known as the City Celebs, while those chosen would be called the Jungle Celebs.
But after the Jungle Celebs arrived to meet the others for the first time, the hosts revealed a cruel twist.
Ant told them that the Jungle Celebs were facing a Bushtucker Trial — and only their new partner could save them.
The City Celebs were told they had to take part in a Walk the Plank challenge. It saw them edge along a 32ft scaffold 334ft up on the roof of a hotel.
After walking to the end of it, they then had to try to stop a clock as close to a minute as possible.
The three celebrities who came closest to 60 seconds would save their partner from the first trial.
Carol was the first to walk the plank and stopped the clock at 61 seconds, saving Lisa from the trial.
Ant joked: “I told you she was good with numbers.”
Adam stopped the clock at 64 seconds, sparing Larry.
Quek's an ogre
OLYMPIC hockey hero Sam Quek has warned her fellow campmates she swears and screams in her sleep.
The gold medal-winning player, 28, says being tired or drifting into a deep sleep can trigger the attacks.
She said: “I sleep-talk sometimes when I’m really tired and had hardly any sleep or if I’ve had a really, really deep one.
“Then I’ve been known to swear or scream.
“But that’s in the really extreme cases where I’ve been really, really tired which I can see happening in the jungle.”
And Joel, who has a fear of heights, stopped it at 67 seconds, saving Wayne.
The Jungle Celebs then returned the favour by trying to save their City Celeb partners.
Sam, Wayne and Lisa had to skydive into the jungle and release a flare as close as possible to 60 seconds after jumping out at 10,000ft.
Wayne was a bag of nerves, telling his pals: “I’m all over the place to be honest.
“My stomach is just turning.”
Once the contestants were safely in the camp, Ant revealed that the celebrity closest to 60 seconds was Wayne with 55 seconds, so Joel was saved.
Lisa managed to release her flare after 67 seconds, which meant Carol was also safe.
Larry, who was unable to skydive because of a hearing condition, and Scarlett had to paddle a canoe into the jungle.
They then had to collect a flag bearing the face of their opposite number and plant it in a holder on the opposite side of the lake.
But they had to do it in as close a time to 60 minutes as possible.
Larry beat Scarlett, doing it in a time of 64 minutes and 27 seconds, saving his partner Adam.
It left Ola, Sam, Jordan and Scarlett to face the Tomb of Torment.
Snow to melt?
LISA Snowdon is the favourite to be the first contestant to quit this year’s show.
The former radio presenter, left, who The Sun on Sunday revealed had an eight-month affair with married footballer Jay Bothroyd, is 5/1 to be the first quitter. Ex-Strictly pro Ola
Jordan is second most likely to duck out at 7/1 and Carol Vorderman is third at 8/1, according to Sun Bets.
Retired footballer Wayne Bridge, right, has the best odds of staying in, with a 50/1 chance of quitting.
