I’m a Celebrity 2024 live: Ant and Dec make bold claim about this year’s contestants
They've not seemed hugely impressed by the class of 2024
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Your support makes all the difference.I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! hosts Ant and Dec have made a bold claim about this year’s contestants.
Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly haven’t held back when poking fun – and even growing frustrated – at the crop of stars in the jungle, with Dean McCullough and Barry McGuigan falling victim to the presenting duo’s many jokes.
They claimed in the latest episode, which ared on Tuesday (26 November), that the team of 2024 after the “screamiest bunch we’ve ever”.
In tonight’s episode of I’m a Celebrity, Maura Higgins and Jane Moore took on the latest trial, “The Fright at the End of the Tunnel”, winning six stars for camp.
Meanwhile, Reverend Richard Coles opened up about grieving his late partner while Oti Mabuse shared what she found to be “the hardest thing” about prematurely giving birth to her daughter.
Follow along with all the live updates from tonight’s episode below
Ahead of the show, Oti Mabuse defended her decision to join I’m a Celebrity one year after the birth of her daughter.
The former Strictly Come Dancing star’s baby was “very premature” and spent six weeks in a neonatal intensive care unit. Mabuse was also diagnosed with sepsis following the birth.
Of her decision to fly to Australia, Mabuse told The Mirror she would “never get another opportunity” to do the show as she wants to focus on other job opportunities and growing her family in the future.
I’m A Celebrity: Ex-Strictly star Oti Mabuse defends leaving baby to do series
‘My daughter won’t remember it,’ the professional dancer said
I’m a Celebrity 2024 salaries ‘revealed'
I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! 2024 features the ITV show’s highest-paid star yet.
The reality TV juggernaut has been a fixture on screens since 2002 and, over the years, the amount of money paid to the participating contestants has exponentially increased.
This gap has widened even more in the last four years alone, with Noel Edmonds, the one-time highest-paid star, receiving £600,000 for what ended up being just one week in the jungle in 2019.
Find out details about the salaries of this year’s stars here:
How much are I’m a Celebrity 2024 contestants being paid
This year’s cast includes highest-paid star in ITV show’s 22-year-history
Oti Mabuse praised
Fans of I’m a Celebrity have praised contestant Oti Mabuse for opening up about her daughter’s premature birth.
On Tuesday night’s episode (26 November) of the ITV show, ex-Strictly professional dancer Mabuse, 34, shared the poignant moment with fellow jungle-mate Reverend Richard Coles.
Read more here:
I’m a Celebrity star Oti Mabuse reveals ‘hardest thing’ about premature birth
‘It’s hell,’ says ex-Strictly Come Dancing star, as Rev Richard Coles offers to pray for her daughter
The public have decided the person they want to face “Shock Around the Clock” is... TULISA!
She took the news like a champ.
It’s not Alan, GK Barry, Reverend Richard, Jane, Dean, Coleen, Barry, Danny, Melvin, Oti – meaning it might also be Tulisa.
Who will be doing the next Bushtucker Trial?
Ant and Dechave just gone into camp to reveal the result of the vote – and, straight off the bat, it might be Maura.
After Maura and Jane’s efforts in the Bushtucker trial, the campmates have been treated to a dinner of mud crabs. And they needed boxer Barry’s help to crack them open! Talk about having to work for your dinner
Fans of I’m a Celebrity have praised contestant Oti Mabuse for opening up about her daughter’s premature birth.
On Tuesday night’s episode (26 November) of the ITV show, ex-Strictly professional dancer Mabuse, 34, shared the poignant moment with fellow jungle-mate Reverend Richard Coles.
I’m a Celebrity star Oti Mabuse reveals ‘hardest thing’ about premature birth
‘It’s hell,’ says ex-Strictly Come Dancing star, as Rev Richard Coles offers to pray for her daughter
Richard Coles opens up about loss of his former partner
The emotion hasn’t stopped there: Richard has just spoken about the loss of his former partner, David. He tells Oti: “I miss him. He’s just left a massive hole in my life and I’m living my life around that loss.”
Read more here:
Richard Coles opens up about grieving his late partner on I’m a Celebrity
Former priest Coles had a heart-to-heart with dancer Oti Mabuse
Oti Mabuse opens up about premature birth
Oti Mabuse has just opened up to Richard about the scary premature birth of her baby, who was placed in an incubator after birth.
A tearful Richard has his own story for Oti, telling her about her he once baptised a very premature boy who has grown up to be a healthy young footballer.
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