What happened on I'm a Celebrity 2023 last night? Episode recap

Grace Dent was the first contestant to leave I'm a Celebrity on medical grounds.

In a letter to her campmates, Grace Dent spoke out about her exit, saying: "My heart is broken."

She added: "My dear campmates, I’m so sorry to let you down. I have left the camp for medical reasons. My heart is broken, I have loved and enjoyed getting to know you all.

"You’ve held me up and it’s been a pleasure being your friend through this experience.

"Leaving you all at this stage will be one of the saddest things in my life. I love you all. Your friend, Miss Grace Dent."

And on Wednesday 29th November, Jamie Lynn Spears also quit I'm a Celebrity due to medical reasons.

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What happened on I'm a Celebrity 2023 last night?

Episode 11 - Jamie Lynn left I'm a Celebrity

After spending the night in the camp leader's bus, Sam woke up to a leech on his bottom - ouch!

"I had a leech attached to my a***. I felt so violated," the reality TV star complained in the Bush Telegraph.

Later that day, Nick and Nigel faced the latest Bushtucker Trial. As they arrived, Dec explained: "This is In Too Deep. It takes place in these two giant water tanks behind you. You’ll need to free those stars that are trapped at the bottom. You do this by releasing the spanners that are up there on the side of the tank.

"Then you’ll use them to unscrew the bolts that are holding the stars in place. When the stars are removed, you can collect them and get them in your bag. Only stars in your bag at the end of the Trial will count."

Ant added: "You’ll take it in turns collecting one star at a time. This is a Bushtucker Trial; expect the unexpected.

"You’ve got 11 minutes to get 11 stars. You can stop the Trial at any point by saying, 'I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!' and we’ll stop the Trial, but then you will forfeit any further stars. The other celebrity can play on to get their stars, but with half the time.

"And, of course, you don’t have to do it. You can say, 'No thanks, lads,' but you’ll go back to camp empty-handed."

Nigel quit midway, reducing their time - but in the end the duo managed to win a total of six stars.

Back in camp, Nigel asked Nella if he'd upset her and she said yes, before explaining: "I just feel like you were very dismissive about cultural appropriation yesterday."

She concluded the conversation by saying: "It’s cool. I don’t have an issue with you. Like I said to you a couple of days ago, you are always going to have your opinions and I’m always going to have my opinions and we can agree to disagree, but let’s just not be the best of buds, because clearly we’re just from two different sides of the world and you’ll never understand my issues and struggles."

Speaking in the Bush Telegraph, Nigel said: "I’m worried about being accused of cultural appropriation, not as she took it that I was dismissive of it as a concept completely - but we’ve had a chat about it and that’s fine."

Also in camp, Frankie opened up to his campmates about his life as a jockey, discussing his career and the nerves he faces, saying: "I can control it now, I love it. It’s horrible, but it’s great.

"We get £160 to ride the horse. But if we have a million pound race, I get £100,000 - I get 10%, around there. You’ve got to win the big races to make a good living. To get the big races, you need a good horse. And to get a good horse, you’ve got to work for a big stable, it’s how it works."

That evening, Fred and Danielle teamed up for the Sticky Kiosk Kev challenge.

As they arrived at the road sign-themed challenge, Kiosk Kev said over the tannoy: "G’day, celebrities. Today’s Deals on Wheels challenge will put you in a very sticky situation.

"All you need to do is match the road signs with the correct meaning. The traffic light will go green if you get it correct. Get all six in the right place and you’ll win those Dingo Dollars."

"So, I failed six times my driving test. Six! Sorry…" Danielle said.

During the game, they looked to match the road sign of an uneven road, minimum speed, no vehicles, river bank and more.

They completed the challenge and visited Kiosk Kev.

Camp got the question right after being asked how many 'doofs' are in the EastEnders theme tune - the correct answer being nine - and they won crisps.

This was the last episode that featured Jamie Lynn Spears after the actress quit I'm a Celebrity due to medical reasons.

Episode 10 - Nella and Frankie teamed up for a dreaded trial

I'm a Celebrity returned for another critter-filled episode stacked with trials, with Marvin, Sam and Tony checking into the Misery Motel and Nella and Frankie taking on the beds trial.

Kicking things off was Marvin, Sam and Tony at the Misery Motel, where they were met with a set of instructions.

Marvin read out the rules: "You have the chance to win up to 10 coins each. One after the other, you will enter your room to search for the coins, while the other two celebrities must look through the window to help you.

"You'll have a total of 15 minutes for all three rooms. At the end of the challenge, you can head to the jungle vending machine, where you can buy some of the stars for tomorrow night's meal and a treat for camp. Good luck."

Marvin went into his room first, while Sam and Tony helped him out with clues - and were showered with critters in the process.

Marvin managed to get all 10 coins in time and the trio moved onto the next room.

At the end of the challenge, they managed to get 24 out of 30 coins and bought a bunch of chocolate for the camp, which the fellow campmates were over the moon with.

Elsewhere was Frankie and Nella, who were chosen by the public to take on the latest trial, Dreaded Beds.

During the challenge, the pair had to enter a room each, lying down on the bed inside. One of the celebrities had to find a number of four digit codes, while the other had to use the codes to unlock the boxes that had gold coins in them.

However, all didn't go according to plan, as the pair finished the trial with no coins won, missing out on getting luxury items for their campmates.

When Marvin, Sam and Tony returned with sweet treats for the camp, Jamie Lynn took herself away to cry.

Tony asked, "OK, mate?" Jamie Lynn responded, "I'm fine… I'm just… No, I'm not…"

Danielle gave Jamie Lynn a cuddle and said, "I don't blame you today." Jamie Lynn then said, "That little square of chocolate p*****d me off."

While in the Bush Telegraph, Jamie Lynn said: "I just want more chocolate."

Episode 9 - Grace Dent leaves the camp

It was another thrilling time in the jungle last night as Josie and Danielle tackled the Down The Tubes trial, three housemates were sent to the Misery Motel, and the camp learned that Grace would be leaving.

Josie and Danielle arrived at the clearing for last night's trial, Down The Tubes.

During the trial, the campmates were strapped into a giant tube and suspended above the valley floor, where they had to unlock stars and throw them to the celebrity in another tube.

The pair proved to be a good team, as Dec confirmed: "There was two that got away, but you managed to lock eight in the box plus the two that you held onto when you dropped out, that makes a grand total of 10 stars."

Viewers also saw that Grace Dent left the camp due to medical reasons.

Announcing the news to the camp was Nick, who read: "My dear campmates, I'm so sorry to let you down. I have left the camp for medical reasons.

"My heart is broken, I have loved and enjoyed getting to know you all. You've held me up and it's been a pleasure being your friend through this experience. Leaving you all at this stage will be one of the saddest things in my life. I love you all. Your friend, Miss Grace Dent."

The campmates all rallied around, saying they would miss her and that she hadn't let them down.

Sam, Tony and Marvin were the three celebrities to head to the Misery Motel, where they were surprised with a shower of critters.

With the episode left on a cliffhanger, viewers will have to tune into tonight's episode to find out what happens!

Episode 8 - Tony Bellew tells the camp what it was like fighting Usyk

On Sunday night's episode, Tony Bellew opened up to the camp about boxing and what it was like fighting Oleksandr Usyk.

In the camp, Jamie Lynn asked Tony: "What does it feel like when you knock somebody out?"

He replied: "Do you know what? It's a relief it's over."

Sam Thompson then asked: "What was it like fighting Usyk?"

Tony admitted: "Too hard. Obviously, he's amazing. I've fought stronger people, I've fought quicker people, but I've never fought someone like him who has got everything. He works you out. He downloads what you do.

"He's downloading all the data in front of him. It takes him three rounds to do it. With me, it took him eight. And then he does it, he pulled the trigger. But I was exhausted. I remember everything up until round 7. I don't remember round 8."

Fred asked: "Because you were so tired?", to which Tony agreed.

In the Bush Telegraph, Tony added: "The referee literally saved my life. Next shot probably puts me away for good. So, boxing at the highest level in the professional business is brutal. My priority was to make it home safe. After that, it was to win at all costs."

Elsewhere in the jungle, Marvin told the housemate how he proposed to Rochelle Humes, leaving everyone in awe of their relationship.

Chatting in camp with Nella and Josie, Marvin said: "When I was ready to settle down, and I knew Rochelle was the one, I took her to the Maldives for Christmas. On the day, I hired a tiny little island – small, from here to the treehouse, maybe twice the size… they dropped us off [at] maybe 11am and I stood next to her, saying 'let's do a picture'. Then I went down on one knee."

Marvin continued: "We got back home [and] immediately started planning the wedding. We got married, we had five days together, then she went to America for six weeks to shoot a TV show in LA.

"Then I met her in New York, we had one night together in New York, she went back to LA, I went back to London. Six weeks later she was pregnant, from that one night in New York."

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Episode 7 - Jamie Lynn talks about her relationship with sister Britney Spears

It was another busy day in camp on Saturday night, with the celebrities finally merging together at the main camp.

After facing each other in tasks, Tony Bellew and Frankie Dettori merged with the main camp, and Sam Thompson was "so excited" to meet them.

Once the celebrities became one camp again, Josie began getting to know Frankie and asked: "How did you feel when you got your statue?"

Frankie replied: "Embarrassing!" Josie then asked: "Are you joking?"

"Yeah, I feel embarrassed actually," Frankie told the This Morning host.

Elsewhere in camp, Tony told Sam about the trial and how they managed to get 12 stars. Celebrating, Sam asked: "Can I hug you or not?"

Tony replied: "Course you can, mate. Yeah, we've got 12."

In the Bush Telegraph, Sam couldn't hold in his excitement and said: "I've watched a ton of his fights. He's bigger in real life, he's a unit."

Fred also picked up on Sam's excitement over meeting Tony and said in the Bush Telegraph: "Sam is so excited that Tony Bellew has arrived in the jungle. He can't believe his eyes and he can't believe his ears."

Elsewhere in the episode, Sam asked Jamie Lynn about her relationship with her sister, Britney Spears.

When asked if she thought Britney was watching her on the show, Jamie Lynn said: "I can imagine she'd be worried about me on here. I think she's probably checking in on me heavily. I do think she's probably like, 'Why would she do that?'

"She asked me that before I came here, she was like, 'You're really going to do it?' I was like, 'I'm going to go to Australia and check it out.' She's a good big sister, she is. Yeah, I love her. Me and her throw down. The world's seen that. I've learned to stop talking about it publicly, but you know what? Families fight. Listen, we just do it better than most."

Jamie Lynn went on to tell Sam that she and Britney had "a very complicated upbringing" that they both dealt with in "different ways".

She explained: "Sometimes we took it out on each other when perhaps we shouldn't have. I've never, ever… I've been the one person in her life - and she can say this - I've never taken anything from her, you know?

"I've been the one person in her life who's always said, 'I just want to be your sister'. We just had a really weird life so we can't explain it to many people, but at the end of the road I know that that’s my family. I love them."

Episode 6 - Home and Away teams battle it out for breakfast

Another day in the camp saw the campmates get to know each other much more, with Frankie opening up about moving to the UK by himself aged 14 to pursue his dream of being a jockey.

He told Danielle that he watched Eastenders to learn English at first, a sentiment that Danielle admitted in The Bush Telegraph that she's heard many times before and joked about people using Peggy Mitchell's iconic "Get out of my pub" line.

More campmates took on the new challenge, Touchdown of Terror, with Nella and Grace being chosen by the public to take part. Sam was chosen to join Nella while Nigel volunteered to join Grace.

The challenge wasn't as straightforward as throwing a ball but also involved appearances from some creepy crawlies and ended up being a tight call. But the Away team won a nice dinner after the Home team stepped back from the challenge and pulled their cord.

The win definitely lifted Grace's spirits after she had previously admitted to The Bush Telegraph that she didn't have a lot left in her but her win saw the Away team feasting on camel steaks for their dinner.

Elsewhere, Jamie Lynn tried her best to understand the world of Made in Chelsea through speaking to Sam about his time on the show. And it seemed as though Sam did enough to pique her interest as she admitted she's going to go back and watch previous seasons of the E4 show.

Fred also questioned Jamie Lynn about her sister Britney and her well-known kiss with Madonna but the conversation also opened up to Frankie, who asked Jamie Lynn about rumours over the two not getting along anymore, which Jamie Lynn denied.

The second challenge of the episode came with the Power Shower Playoffs which saw one celebrity donning a hilarious sponge costume and rather expectantly, the challenge ended in chaos. The Away team's Josie and Marvin scooped up the prize for that one but their win was quickly sidelined after the next playoff, Handball, saw the Home team come out victorious and win the coveted breakfast.

Of course, the Away team was sad about their loss but now the attention has turned to the next challenge, Down Your Sorrows, which is another eating challenge that will likely be gross in typical I'm A Celeb style.

Episode 5 - The camp was divided

The fifth episode of I'm A Celeb saw the camp divided – quite literally. As the campmates arrived at 'Scarena', Ant and Dec informed the campmates that they would be taking on the Locker Shocker Trial.

The rules were simple and the challenge involved the campmates unlocking stars and moving them up through a mesh maze. But it wouldn't be an episode of I'm A Celeb without some fittingly disgusting additions so there was everything from fish guts to feathers dropped on the campmates as they tried to unlock their stars.

The first five to finish formed one team while the losing five formed another but the twist came when Dec revealed that the winning 'Home' team could go back to Main Camp, but the losing team had to head to Snake Rock and are now the 'Away' team.

The teams were then introduced to their coaches, new camp additions Tony Bellew and Frankie Dettori who then had to go head-to-head to determine which team they would coach. Frankie won and became the Home team coach while Tony became the Away team coach.

The new camps were decked out in the team's new colours, along with uniforms for them all and the campmates started to bond with their new coaches.

Then, the teams had to take on a challenge called Slam Dunk'd which saw Nella and Fred paired up while the other team's Nick and Marvin took on the task.

It was an anticipated moment for Nella and Fred, especially seeing as the pair didn't get off to the smoothest of starts with one another after the week's earlier disagreement.

Nella and Fred came out victorious in the challenge, leading fans to wonder whether their disagreement had finally been put to one side. The Home team enjoyed a lovely dinner with Jamie Lynn saying a Thanksgiving prayer, while Tony's Away team only ate rice and beans for the night.

Episode 4 - There are new arrivals in camp!

It was a tense time in the jungle in episode 4, with a rat in the camp, Nella Rose admitting she considered quitting and two new arrivals making their way Down Under.

In the morning, Nick Pickard spotted there was a hole in their rubbish bag, to which he said: "Something's had a gnaw at that."

A few of the housemates were fed up with how food was being disposed of, which led to rats going for the leftovers.

Elsewhere in the episode, Nella Rose admitted that if Jamie Lynn had chosen to leave the show the night before, she would have followed suit.

While in the Bush Telegraph, Nella explained: "Whenever I feel uncomfortable, whenever I feel sad, I do tend to leave. I do tend to not carry things through if I feel uncomfortable. So the fact I've lasted in the jungle for this long is astonishing."

The YouTuber opened up to food critic Grace Dent about her troubles, explaining that she often doesn't follow through with things.

She said: "I've never, ever in my life started something and finished it. Ever. I always quit, or I always sign on short term or if I don't like it I can leave… this is the one thing I said I'm going to try and stick it through, but I can already see myself… if I get in my head too much…"

Grace then asked: "Do you bolt? You run the minute things start to pick up?"

Nella replied: "When I was younger, I was put in a lot of situations that I had no control over. I was sad and miserable. So now that I have the control over my happiness and the things I want to do, I think I'm kind of, I've become obsessed with it: 'Oh, you don't have to do this if you don't want to.'"

As the episode continued, Jamie Lynn took on the Climb of Cruelty trial, which saw her reach 100ft in the air, managing to get all 10 stars for her campmates.

After winning all the stars, she said: "All I was thinking about was, 'You've got hungry campmates.'"

At the end of the episode, it was confirmed that boxer Tony Bellew and jockey Frankie Dettori would be joining the camp as late arrivals.

It was revealed that the two latecomers would become camp coaches and lead their new campmates into battle in the 'Scarena'.

Episode 3 - Fred Sirieix vs Nella Rose

Things got very heated in the jungle in episode 3, as Nella Rose revealed that Fred Sirieix had offended her the night before.

In the morning, the campmates were talking about the weather, with Fred saying: "It’s just rain, rain, rain, it’s chucking it down."

Grace Dent said: "Camp, to me, feels like about day 11 at Glastonbury. Really rainy Glastonbury. Instead of seeing Coldplay tonight, I’m just going to see Fred in his underpants again."

Fred then tried to offer Nella rice, but she ignored his calls to her.

Speaking on the Bush Telegraph, Nella explained: "Last night, after dinner, Fred made a comment about him basically how he could be my dad. I took offence to that, because one of the first conversations we had together was me opening up about the fact that my dad’s passed away."

Fred told Nella that she needed to eat and called her several times, but she continued to ignore him. At which point he went over to check what the issue was.

Nella explained that people only get "one chance" to disrespect her and that she felt disrespected by his comments given that her dad has passed away.

Fred apologised, but Nella insisted that she wouldn't be eating his food going forward, and that they wouldn't be "friends".

You can watch the argument below:

Also in last night's episode, Nigel Farage talked about his previous plane and car crash, admitting that he was "being an idiot, flying a banner".

Fred then asked: "What was on the banner?"

"A Brexit message, obviously…" Nigel said, before adding, "Vote for independence or something like that."

He continued: "I don’t recall being unconscious, but I do recall the explosion, the plane flipping over, being stuck in there, everything broken… every rib front and back, split sternum, punctured lung… it was bad."

Having been voted by the public, it was now time for Nella to take on the latest trial.

"I just feel like everybody thinks I’m going to do so well. The pressure’s on me," she said as she joined hosts Ant & Dec.

Ant then explained the trial, saying: "Nella, this is No Time to Cry - through the fence and hidden deep underground is an evil villain’s secret lair.

"You have to take on the role of secret agent and infiltrate that secret lair, collecting stars as you go. The stars are hidden behind protected glass. To get them, you’re going to need this super hi-tech magnetic secret agent watch…"

Dec added: "It’s basically a magnet we’ve glued to some velcro. But you get the idea."

Encouraging her, Ant said: "We’re all behind you."

Dec joked: "Quite far behind you…"

Once underground, Nella faced a maze of lasers. She had to try to navigate them while trying to free the star with the magnetic watch. Breaking the lasers, she kept being forced to start back at the beginning.

With three stars in her bag, a frantic Nella rushed past points, as Ant & Dec tried to encourage her back. She then faced being electrocuted as she attempted to get a further star.

Nella then chose to leave the trial early, shouting: "I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!"

Rejoining Ant & Dec with three out of 10 stars for camp, she said: "That’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Confined spaces. The electric shocks. I was confined, underground, electrocuted, it was giving hell. I feel like I was in hell. They’re going to be so disappointed in me… I’m so disappointed in myself."

Back in camp, Fred, Sam Thompson and Marvin Humes talked about meeting their partners.

"Fred, I’m going to be honest with you mate, it was really romantic… she slid into my DMs. This is so lame. I liked a couple of her photos to just to sort of let her know I was alive and she followed me on Instagram… then I said to her, 'Look, I’m going to be really honest with you, I’m really bad at this digital texting stuff, I’m going to get it wrong soon, can I take you out on a date…?'" Sam said.

Of meeting his now wife, Marvin said: "I met Rochelle when JLS and The Saturdays were doing shows together. I’d always said to the boys, 'I really like her, I think she’s hot.'

"We went to a nightclub in Ireland after doing a show together one night and we were just chatting, getting on really well. She went to the toilet, right? She left her handbag at the table with me. So then, I thought, right, got her phone out and called myself so I had her phone number. It took about three months of pestering her to get a date."

Later that day, Danielle Harold and Sam gave Jamie Lynn spears a pep talk, after she admitted: "I don’t know how I’m so emotionally weak."

"You’re so strong. This is tough, babe. Tough. So tough. It’s not easy," Danielle said.

"It’s important to remember you’ve come from a whole different continent, you don’t know anyone here, it’s hard. It’s real hard," Sam added.

During the night, the campmates found out there was a chance to win their luxury items.

Danielle, Sam, Grace and Marvin were tasked with standing behind bars. They had long paddles, which they had to use to hold up a box denoting each campmate’s luxury item. They had to hold it up long enough to stop it falling down a trapdoor.

They managed to win Josie her pillow, Danielle's pineapple-shaped lilo, Nick's cushion and Nella's lip gloss. However, they missed out on losing the other six items due to the intensity of the challenge.

Episode 2 - The celebrities spent their first night in camp

The second episode saw the celebrities spend their first night in the jungle, with some of them admitting they heard some strange noises while everyone was sleeping.

Singer Marvin Humes raised suspicion and said: "Everyone had a rough night's sleep, lots of crazy sounds!"

Sam Thompson agreed and said: "The noises [that] were made. The noises were crazy."

It seems Sam and Marvin have formed a type of bromance, with the latter teaching Sam the routine to JLS song, Everybody in Love.

Later on, Jamie Lynn Spears opened up to Fred Sirieix about her family life, in particular regarding her older sister, Britney Spears.

"Your sister is an obviously a superstar, you're a superstar, why? How come the both of you, what made it?" Fred asked.

Jamie Lynn replied: "I think every family fights and has their stuff, but I talked to her before I came here and we love each other."

The singer went on to explain her rise to fame and appearance on Zoey 101.

"All we ever did was sing and dance, that was our whole household, that's how we were," she told the TV presenter.

"We auditioned for a show called All That, and that's when I was on All That for three years before I did Zoey [101]. It was very successful.

"After I finished Zoey, I had my love of my life, what I thought, I decided to keep the baby. I was 16. The whole world was like, 'You're a s**t, you're horrible, your life is over.'"

Spears explained that she moved away from the spotlight and "hid", revealing she had 20 paparazzi following her around every day.

"They wouldn't leave me alone," she said.

"They came and lived in Mississippi, middle of nowhere. It was horrible. I hated it so much. I just wanted to be normal. I wanted my baby to be normal. Everybody told me I was going to be a horrible mum. So I was like, I've got to raise this baby by myself, and I did."

In the Bush Telegraph, Jamie Lynn said: "I'm proud of where I'm at now. I don't share it in a way of being sad or crying about it, but it's like, I don't know, I just... I'm really thankful."

In a moment that had viewers in stitches, Sam began asking Marvin about JLS's rise to fame and their dance routines on tour.

Marvin explained: "For about a year, we tried the old school way of making it, knocking on record companies' doors, management companies, and just no one was interested at all.

"We were about to call it a day and Aston was like, 'Why don’t we give it one more shot at X Factor?' All worked out."

When asked if The X Factor was the band's big break, Marvin said: "Yeah, 100 per cent!"

Sam then began singing: "Everybody in love, now put your hands up… Marv, what's the dance?"

Marvin got up and started teaching Sam some dance moves.

Marvin started singing another JLS track: "She makes me wanna…"

Sam quickly got the dance routine locked down and said: "I feel great! That was intermediate, that wasn't easy."

Nella Rose and Nigel Farage then took on the Jungle Pizzeria trial after being voted for by the public.

The campmates were told by Ant & Dec they would be taking turns to eat slices of pizza, with interesting toppings.

Among the mix of pizzas was a 'Pepper Groaney', 'a Veggie Scarian' and a 'Quattro For-gag-io'.

As Nella tried hard not to vomit her way through dishes that included giant mealworms and fly pupae, she joked: "No one's ever going to marry me after this!"

Episode 1 - The celebrities arrived in camp

The first episode kicked off with this year's celebrities arriving in Australia. First to arrive in the scorching outbacl was This Morning presenter Josie Gisbon. She was soon joined by former politician Nigel Farage and social media star Nella Rose.

The contestants were told that they'd have to take on a set of challenges to win time for the rest of their campmates to complete tasks for stars, which equate to meals in camp.

The trio set off in a car to another location to start their first challenge, which required two people to put their heads in hell holes and one person to dunk their head into barrels to find tokens.

Josie opted for the barrels saying: “I’ll take one for the team, I’ll take the barrels. I don’t mind sticking my head in things that don’t belong…”

Josie managed to win three tokens and so did Nigel, giving them a total of six minutes.

Meanwhile on the Gold Coast, Sam Thompson, Danielle Harold, Grace Dent and Fred Sirieix were flown by helicopter to the top of a building 100m off of the ground.

Ant and Dec then arrived to reveal the rules of the challenge: "In pairs, you’ve got to make your way over the edge of the building, down the ladders, along the narrow ledge, until you come to your pole. In order to win stars, you’ve got to lie face down on the pole and shimmy yourself and your star all the way to the end of the pole. When the star is in the yellow zone, you’ve won that star.”

Next up was Grace and Sam, who were also successful giving them a winning total of four stars.

Having just met for the first time Marvin Humes, Jamie Lynn Spears and Nick Pickard learned they would have to face a skydive before heading off to do the very first Trial of the series.

While Marvin, Nick and Jamie Lynn made their way to the Trial, Nigel, Nella and Josie faced another challenge to earn them time. This time round, two of them had to sit in thick gunk in the bed of a truck while searching for tokens tied up on bits of rope. Meanwhile the other had to search for tokens hidden under the bonnet and in the glove box, with some snakes in there, too.

"This is not the glamorous jungle entrance that I wanted," Nella quipped.

Nella opted to go for the gunk in the back with Nigel. This time proved more successful for Nella, who found all three tokens. Meanwhile Nigel found two and Josie earned two despite saying of the snakes: “They’re looking at me like they want to bite me!”

In total this earned their fellow campmates seven minutes for The Temple of Doom.

Still buoyed up from their skydive, Nick, Marvin and Jamie Lynn met Ant and Dec for the debut Bushtucker Trial of the series.

Ant explained: "The amount of time you have to do this Trial isn’t down to us. You see, over 2000 miles away, in the middle of Australia, right in The Outback, other celebrities have been taking on challenges to win you time. Out of a possible nine minutes, they’ve won you…. seven minutes!"

Dec then explained the gameplay: “Two of you are going to be strapped into two perspex boxes, either side of the Temple. You’ll take it in turns to find jungle related words on the rotating discs beside you. When you’ve got a word you shout it out. If it’s correct a star will lower above the third celebrity who is strapped to a stone table in the centre. To win the star they will take it off using only their mouth and drop it on the table beside them. Then it’s over to the other celebrity in the other perspex box.”

Opting to be in the boxes Marvin and Jamie Lynn soon found they had green ants for company, while Nick struggled to release the stars with his mouth while covered in spiders and other critters.

However, successfully finding words including ‘tree’, the trio won the remaining six stars so headed into camp to share the good news they had a 10/10 dinner heading their way.

After completing their challenges, all the contestants met in camp where there were lots of starstruck celebs.

Fred and Sam quickly got the fire going, as Danielle gushed: "It’s just mad, I’m with Britney Spears’s sister. I used to watch Zoey 101 when I come home from school. So it was a bit weird, a bit random.”

In the Bush Telegraph Sam said of seeing Nigel Farage enter: “You just don’t see that coming. I’m living in a camp with Nigel Farage… You know when someone’s got their trousers hitched up real high, I was like, yeah, fair play mate…”

That evening, Fred took charge of cooking their meal, saying: “I love to cook. At home I’m in charge of pleasure. It’s going to be the same here.”

He then served up 'jungle paella' after quizzing the contestants about their relationship statuses, to which Josie joked: "Fred, I’m not desperate!”

I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! continues nightly at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX.

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