I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here, Wednesday 8.30pm ITV1

Posted by Suzanne Elliott

Tonight’s programme was about voting for your favourite – from now on it’s not so much about who you dislike, but who you like least. 

But before we got to that, we had the last 24 hours in the jungle to relive. 

We cut straight to the chase with the latest trial, Off Your Trolley, and it was the ever-keen Justin and Gino who stepped up to try to win the camp some much-needed food. The pressure was on because there are rumblings in the jungle: the celebs are apparently so utterly rubbish at the tasks that there’s no food left. 

The trial involved Justin pushing Gino around in a supermarket trolley and tipping mouldy, maggot- and cockroach- infested food onto everyone’s favourite pint-sized Italian chef in order to find those vital stars. We were retching as Gino got covered in slimy fish guts – you could almost smell the stench from 10,000 miles away.  

Anyway, the pair won three stars and Gino couldn’t stop jumping, although less with joy and more thanks to the assorted nasties nipping his nether regions.  

Gino’s obsession with the “Romeo and Juliet” of the group continued, with him interrogating Stuart about whether he’s had a “sexy” dream about Sabrina. Stuart ‘fessed up – and the next scene quite rightly showed him having a cold shower. 

With only 48 hours to go, someone had to go – and that someone was always going to be Jimmy or Stuart. Ant and Dec teased us with an ad break and then it was results time… and Stuart got the push. An unsurprising exit: he’s a nice bloke who it would be difficult to dislike, but a little too bland to make people feel passionate enough to pick up a phone and vote as their favourite.  

The post-eviction chat with A&D didn’t reveal anything surprising – the Sabrina question came up and there was a cheesy and not very convincing montage on the “Stubrina” (please, no!) non-romance. Stuart avoided any direct answers about their future together but was happy to bask in the warm glow of his bromance with Gino (his “one and only”).

So do you think there will be post-jungle fireworks between Stubrina? And with only two days to go – who do you want to see in the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! final?

Tell us what you think.

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I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here, Monday 8.30pm ITV1

Posted by Suzanne Elliott

Whoa, so just when we thought life in the jungle was getting a tad boring, firm favourite George Hamilton sensationally quits the jungle.

This news makes for a rather melodramatic start to the show as a slow montage plays out George’s final moments in the jungle. But it perfectly mirrors the out spilling of grief in the camp following George’s announcement. There was much blubbing and gushing about the Hollywood star from those he left behind, “It’s like saying goodbye to my dad again,” says Stuart Manning while Justin took the news particularly hard, declaring himself "absolutely gutted". Blimey, this is heart wrenching.

Kim, meanwhile, took the breakdown of her jungle marriage in typically pragmatic style, declaring that she had “more of a chance of winning now, lovvie”. Her snoring might have been the hardest task for George to overcome in the jungle, but will she keep her promise to George not to let another man sleep in his bed?

Appropriately enough today’s bush tucker trial was called Buzz Off. Sabrina picks Stuart to join her and as they head off into the bush Gino predicts some “kissy, kissy, smoochy, smoochy”.

The task involves Sabrina dressing up as a giant bee while Stuart attempts to direct her over an obstacle course. Their ineptitude sees Stuart continually gunged with maggots and green ants and given repeated electric shocks that have him grimacing like a man forced to watch the Hollyoak's Sunday omnibus. It's hard to see how their 'first date' could be any worse - has it killed any potential spark between the pair?

They’re not a clever bunch this year, losing another chest question tonight and so taking their tally of wrong answers to six out of seven - a record for the show. They do, however, manage to answer questions about themselves (although only just) and win a delicious chocolate cake.

George left the jungle in style, with a last Gino-made supper of freshly made pasta with kangaroo mince sauce. Sabrina then serenades him with ‘That’s What Friends Are For’ and every one continues to well up, before escorting him out by candlelight. 

During the post-jungle chat with A&D, George maintains he left because he didn’t want to go head to head with anyone. But we suspect it was Kim’s canopy shaking snoring that finally drove him out or maybe it has something to do with that revelation that he maintains his well-groomed hair with the aid of Viagra?

With one person out today, will there be an eviction? It looks promising as Ant and Dec stride into camp to inform Justin and Sabrina that one of them is on their way out – but not yet as we’re denied another forced exit tonight

So who deserves to go? Bee-hating Justin or serenading Sabrina? And can the camp – and the ratings – survive the absence of Gorgeous George? Tell us what you think.

Picture: ITV/Rex Features

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I‘m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, Sunday 9pm, ITV1

Posted by Tom Murphy

Whenever we get to the last few days I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, it always ends up with a lazy end-of-term feel. The trials get a bit tamer, the atmosphere in camp gets a bit more jovial - and the shows get longer. So, how did they fill last night's bum-numbing 90-minute epic?

To recap, Saturday night's gripping instalment ended with a dramatic revelation: heavyweight bruiser Joe Bugner and pouting hunk Stuart Manning would have to go head to head in a brutal winner-takes-all challenge – Jungle Jail. The stakes couldn't be higher: whoever won the contest would go back into camp; whoever lost would be going home.

So the two lads were taken off and given their challenge: escaping from a makeshift prison camp via a network of underground tunnels. Sadly, despite exhausting attempts to ramp up the tension, it was no contest: Stuart got out and rang the "bell of freedom" before Joe had even found the combination to his trap door.

I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!, Saturday 9.45, ITV1

Posted by Julie Richardson

With Sam being taken out of the jungle equation on last night's show, it was business as usual for the remaining celebs. Another day, another Bushtucker Trial and today it was Justin's turn to rise to the challenge.

Squeezing into the tiniest pair of shorts known to man, he took the plunge for Great Barrier Grief which involved a big pool, three Perspex chambers full of all manner of pond life and eight stars. After a small mishap which ended up with Justin sporting a bloody nose having bashed straight into the Perspex wall, the plucky Scotsman managed to bag himself all eight stars.

It was Gino and Joe's turn to bring back the Celebrity Chest. Dressed in a turkey outfit Gino was winched across a ravine by boxer Joe and had to drop giant eggs into a basket below until he managed to pot seven eggs to get the key. But would the happy campers get the question right in order to get the contents of the chest? Unsurprisingly they got it wrong and Joe had a strop.

If that wasn't enough excitment for the day the remaining celebs went speed dating with aging Lothario George Hamilton. The aim was to woo George, who caused much amusement in camp by declaring Joe his ideal date due to his no nonsense approach to romance.

There was no eviction tonight. Instead the public were asked to cast their votes to decide which two celebs would face Jungle Jail. Joe and Stuart were the chosen two. After doing time one of them will return to camp while the other will leave the jungle for good.

But who do you think will win the Jungle Jail challenge?

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I‘m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, Friday 9pm, ITV1

Posted by Julie Richardson

There was no jungle eviction last night – which was particularly annoying for our blogger who was waiting to report on who got the boot. Instead, Ant and Dec were on hand to tell us which of the campers had got the least votes from the public and would be up for eviction this evening.

The three lucky celebs on the public hit list are (in no particular order): ex-Page Three stunna Sam Fox; singer and one-time-pal of Alesha Dixon, Sabrina Washington; and snooker ace Jimmy White. But do they really deserve to be up for eviction?

Sam was the biggest surprise of the bunch. Since she dived on to the show, she’s been up for the whole jungle experience. Her enthusiasm and team spirit haven’t faltered and she appears to be a genuinely nice gal.

Jimmy hasn’t really had much airtime – but hopefully that’s about to change. According to the jungle drums, he's taken part in his first Bushtucker Trial today, so we should find out how he got on this evening.
 
And then there’s Sabrina. She seems nice enough, but that’s about it really. The most exciting thing she’s been involved in so far has been a heated debate with ex-boxer Joe Bugner over how to cook chicken - and even then it wasn’t all that exciting. Oh, and there’s the “will-they-won’t-they?” romance with Stuart Manning, but that appears to be going nowhere fast.

But to be quite honest, I’m not actually sure I really care who goes. Katie Price may well be over-exposed and over-paid, but since she left the jungle, the most entertaining celebs on the show have been Ant and Dec by a long shot. Still, if you are still watching and you do care, tell us who you think should go tonight.

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Jungle drums

Poste by Julie Richardson

Chef Gino d'Acampo is apparently getting a little cheeky in camp, according to evicted I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! contestant Colin McAllister.

Colin revealed to The Sun that Gino has taken to pulling his pants down and giving everyone an eyeful of his derrière. "It started a couple of days ago when he made his bottom dance in his pants – and the next day he gave a flash of his Italian cheeks," revealed the interior designer.

And that's not all. According to Colin the Italian chef is really sexually frustrated. "His horny Italian blood is bubbling at the moment. Every conversation is either about food or sex."

Any more news from Down Under? Well, the camp was infested with rats last night after the contestants left lamb bones in the fire. The rats could be heard scurrying under the beds and an I’m A Celebrity… source said: “Many [of the contestants] were so scared they wouldn’t put their hands out of their sheets.”

Meanwhile, Kim Woodburn and Joe Bugner have taken part in the latest Bushtucker Trial. They headed for the Jungle Arms where the pair had to down five rounds of jungle drinks in order to win food for the camp. The cocktails included blended cockroaches and pulped crocodile foreskin complete with a crocodile willy stirrer – nice! Pictures of Kim taking part in the trial suggest that if she finds herself short of cash when she gets out of the jungle she could always enter a few gurning contests.

Kim and Joe's task will be screened on tonight's show on ITV1 at 9pm, when we should also find out who the next celeb to be booted from the camp will be.

Picture: Rex

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I‘m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, Tuesday 9pm, ITV1

Posted by Will Parkhouse

With The Katie Price Show having come to an end on Monday, I'm A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! was left with 10 contestants and an ample vacuum. The show attempted to fill the Katie-shaped hole with a fairly unexciting Bushtucker Trial and, more interestingly, a hint of romance.

The challenge went to Stuart and Gino, who furthered their burgeoning bromance by taking on The Slime-Filled Tubes of Terror. Actually, it was called "slip and slide", but we thought that sounded a bit weak, so we changed it. That's just the power of words.

The pair had to work together to collect stars from inside a hollow Perspex seesaw suspended above some water. It was like the final scene of The Italian Job crossed with a Marx Brothers movie – but sadly not half as entertaining as that sounds, despite Gino's hammy (and surely deliberate) misunderstandings. "Backwards, backwards, backwards, backwards," shouted Stuart, with enough clarity to put Dolby to shame. "Backwards or forwards?" yelled Gino, in the style of a needy child.

I‘m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, Monday 9pm, ITV1

Posted by Jane Murphy

So it turns out there’s only so many times a woman can attempt to eat a kangaroo anus, get covered in slime or wear a helmet full of giant spiders before she suddenly realises that, actually, she doesn’t really have to do this and she could just go home. Who knew?

Yes, Katie Price has left the jungle - although she did pop back to explain her reasons to Ant and Dec on last night’s show. In a nutshell? Doing the trials was like torture, she missed her kids and she just didn’t want to be there any more. “I’ve got to put myself first for once,” she deadpanned.

Oh, and having had time to reflect on the past seven months, she admits she’s “acted like a twit” since her break-up with husband Peter Andre. But being back in the place where the pair first fell in love has given her time to reflect - and she’s now decided to dump cross-dressing cage fighter Alex Reid. Hmmm… let’s hope he kept the receipt for that engagement ring, eh?

So why does Katie think the public voted for her to do so many Bushtucker Trials? “Maybe some people wanted me to suffer,” she pondered. “And others just wanted to see me.” By the way, if you voted for Katie to take part in today’s Bad Pit challenge, you can apply for a refund. Or you could just let ITV donate the money to charity instead. And maybe try to get out more.

Anyway, Katie’s departure meant Kim Woodburn was drafted in as her replacement to partner Joe Bugner in the trial. The pair put aside their differences to win all nine stars in a challenge that involved Kim wearing a blindfold while operating a crane and lowering Joe into a pit of snakes.

Anything else? Oh yes - ex-EastEnder Lucy Benjamin became the first celebrity to be voted out of the jungle. And if that sounds like a bit of an after-thought, that’s how it came across on the show, too.

Seeing as so much time was given over to Katie’s departure, poor Lucy barely had time to sit down with Ant and Dec before the credits began to roll. Still, she’s had a once-in-a-lifetime experience: she got to jump out of a plane and eat rat cooked by a celebrity chef. What more could you wish for?

So what did you think of Katie’s post-show interview? And will you miss Lucy? Did you even notice she was in there? Tell us what you think.

Picture: Rex Features

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I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, Friday 8.30pm, ITV1

Posted by Michael Baggs

They spent 22 days in the Australian jungle being forced to eat bugs, sleep in squalor and wake up next to Timmy Mallett. Somehow Joe Swash, George Takei and Martina Navratilova endured these hardships and entered the final of this year’s I’m A Celebrity in remarkably good humour. Perhaps it was the promise of a hot shower and a meal that wasn’t still wriggling that was keeping the finalist’s spirits up as their jungle adventure came to end.

The unlikely trio of a former Eastender, a Wimbledon champ and a genuine sci-fi hero spent their last day congratulating each other as they all set about trilling how wonderful it was to simply make the final. The spark of competition was notable by its absence - surely the celebs couldn’t really be so good natured?

A successful final trial can secure victory for even the most anonymous contestant - Matt Willis and a kangaroo anus springs to mind - and each finalist was given a last chance to prove themself.

Cheeky everyman Joe Swash took to a claustrophobic underground task with his typical happy-chappy attitude. “They’re gonna go up my bum” he yelled as he was sealed in a coffin full of eels and rats, before asking himself “Why can’t I just get a normal job?” If he did that, there would be a lot of unemployed vermin in Australia. Joe lasted ten minutes and scored the finalists five stars and the first part of a luxury meal.

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, Thursday 8.30pm, ITV1

Posted by Tom Murphy

It always happens – we get down to the last few, and instead of tension, back-biting and tooth-gnashing, we get love, peace and understanding. Rather than a grim ordeal of testicle-munching and exposure to the elements, it turns into the kind of drink-fuelled camping mayhem you enjoyed with your mates when you were 16.

After mourning the expulsion of “ebony Adonis” Simon Webbe - “his buns were very well formed” - George Takei, along with David Van Day, Joe Swash and Martina Navratilova, was summoned for a joint Bushtucker Trial - “Celebrity Cyclone”. The Starfleet veteran performed with distinction, striding into an onslaught from water cannon and a wind machine to lead the team to four-star success.

Joe was still in the grip of a major adrenaline rush by the time they got back to camp, throwing himself frenziedly into another mini-task. Four ice creams had been hidden within the camp, and had to be found and eaten before they melted. While Joe left no shrub unturned to find the final goodie, David showed a lot less enthusiasm, heading instead into the bus to play with his toiletries.