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I’m A Celebrity bosses forced to cancel Dingo Dollar challenge tonight as storm causes chaos
I’M A Celebrity bosses have been forced to cancel the Dingo Dollar challenge tonight after a storm caused chaos in the Australian camp.
Producers decided to ditch the task after torrential rain poured overnight in Murwillumbah, north-eastern New South Wales.
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A show source told the Mirror: “The camp has been very dry this year up until now but the last 48 hours has been rain filled.
"It's the first time for years and years that anyone can remember a challenge being cancelled."
Declan Donnelly opened tonight's episode, telling viewers "the storm clouds are gathering".
Explaining what was coming up, he added: "A storm hits camp bringing thunderball and lightening"
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The campers woke up to a wet and grey morning, but Caitlyn Jenner and Andy Whyment were nice and dry in the leaders' hut.
Andy remarked: "The rain didn't stop all night and I was quite lucky because I was in the penthouse."
Jacqueline Jossa could be seen under her rain cover, and later told viewers in the Bush Telegraph: "My hammock was soaking wet so James gave me his bed which I felt terrible about."
Later in the episode, viewers witnessed the rain after a sudden fall forced the campers to flee to Caitlyn's hut.
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They grabbed everything that they could and shoved it in the telephone box before climbing the hill to take cover.
Cliff Parisi told viewers: "It absolutely p****d down. And all of a sudden it stopped."
It comes after James Haskell faced a fan backlash on Saturday during the Dingo Dollar challenger, after he said he was "too intelligent and switched on" to debate the question - insisting it should be answered with a show of hands instead.
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The star kicked off after dithering broke out in camp over the answer to a simple A or B question in last night's Dingo Dollar Challenge.
He sulked: "It irritates the p*** out of me because it’s that simple. Explain the question, answer the question A or B.
"It’s a circus of stupidity. I can’t do it, I’m too intelligent and too switched on. Just put your hands right up, let someone count them, right, the majority win, shut up and let’s move on.
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"I’m not going to kill my brain cells doing that. It’s like someone is sticking a screwdriver in my eye."
He then mistakenly added that he was going to "sit back and watch everything umplode".
The rant even earned criticism from I'm A Celebrity spin-off host Emily Atack, who said on Extra Camp that it had made her "angry".
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