Creepy crawlies, impressive heights and underground coffins, these are some of the things we can expect from an I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here Bushtucker Trial. The ITV jungle-based show will be returning this weekend with an impressive line up of stars.
The Daily Mirror Associate Editor (Showbiz)’s Tom Bryant, has travelled to New South Wales to share all the latest I’m a Celebrity… news. Whilst visiting this year’s camp in Australia he had the honour of taking part in his very own Bushtucker Trial, where he left the experience horrified.
He set the scene saying: “For the hundreds of those who’ve appeared on I’m a Celebrity, it’s the one thing that always seems to take them by surprise.” For the latest TV and showbiz gossip sign up to our newsletter.
Tom continued: “Many come out saying the sheer noise of the jungle is enough to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.”
“It’s true….the hum of insects and birdsong is so loud it almost assaults your eardrums. But if any of this year’s contestants happened to arrive early in camp yesterday, they would have heard a very different cry.
“Mainly a muffled one from me instead.”
Whilst undertaking an exclusive tour of the famous jungle, the journalist was subjected to a Bushtucker trial called the Rotten Ringmaster. He said: “It involved me, a camel anus, and 60 seconds to eat it.”
The trial was called the Rotten Ringmaster -Credit:Reach PLC
The rules were delivered in steely fashion by the show’s trial producer James, who said there would be no nose-holding, no swallowing whole or – worse – swigging it down with water.
Sitting on a plank overlooking a pool of suspiciously dark, and foul-smelling, water, Tom was handed the awful-looking specimen which was attached to a cocktail stick.
He said: “But any fleeting pretence of it being a delicious canape soon vanished in one bite.
“How to describe it? Imagine a rubbery, crunchy, hairy piece of leather. Maybe hardboiled for extra bite.
“It was horrific, but I would be damned if it beat me.”
Tom compared the camel’s anus to a ‘rubbery, crunchy, hairy piece of leather.’ -Credit:Reach PLC
Tom successfully received his star after 45 seconds, and forcing the “hairy piece of leather” down, but he was still, obviously, dumped into the brown waters below.
The team shared that this year’s eating trials are being spruced up with a variety of brand new dishes on the menu.
Trial producer Katie is one of the evil masterminds behind these terrible concoctions. She explained: “Camel brain is something we’ve never had on the show before, and we’ll see how it goes down with the celebs.
“Its not so much the taste, it’s the texture that is going to get them.”
He succeeded in the challenge, winning a star -Credit:Reach PLC
Tom revealed that the “team’s attention to detail is second to none.”
Katie added: “We do so much research into them to find the best of the best,” which she apparently said with an evil smile.
She also divulged which dish would be the worst of the eating challenges: “Witchetty grubs are pretty rank, you bite them and they explode. Fish eyes are gross, and fermented eggs are pretty brutal as well.”
This means celebrities thinking of pretending to be vegetarian won’t have an easy ride either. In fact, the trial producer said: “The veggie options can be much much worse like vomit fruit. For anyone thinking they could be vegetarian or vegan on the show, maybe think again.”
I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here will be starting back on Sunday, November 16 at 9pm on ITV and ITV X.
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