I’m a Celebrity 2019 launch – as it happened: Caitlyn Jenner, Nadine Coyle, Ian Wright and co enter the jungle

TV and radio stars will face a number of challenges in the Australian bush and compete to be crowned king or queen of the jungle

I'm A Celebrity: meet the 2019 celebrity campmates

I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! has returned for a brand new series on ITV, hosted by presenting duo Ant and Dec.

This year's clutch of celebrities includes Caitlyn Jenner, Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway, Girls Aloud singer Nadine Coyle and retired footballer Ian Wright.

The show's new cast additionally includes retired rugby player James Haskell, ex-EastEnders actor Jacqueline Jossa, who played Lauren Branning until 2018, and comedian Andrew Maxwell, best known for providing voiceover for the MTV reality show Ex on the Beach.

DJs Adele Roberts (Radio 1), Roman Kemp (Capital FM), and Myles Stephenson, who won The X Factor in 2017 with his band Rak-Su, have also joined the show.

The launch saw the contestants face a number of challenges just to get to the campsites, from skydiving (Coyle and Jenner) to balancing precariously from the top of a building (Garraway, Wright, Maxwell, Jossa, Kemp and Stephenson).

Contestants have been split into two teams, with each at a different campsite.

Jenner has already emerged as a clear favourite, with fans on social media praising her for her level-headed and apparently fearless approach to each task.

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See the full list of celebrity contestants here, and read our columnist Fiona Sturges's thoughts on the show here.

I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here continues Monday 18 November at 9pm on ITV

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[17 November 2019 21:47 · roisin.oconnor]

Here we go here we go here we go

[17 November 2019 21:49 · roisin.oconnor]

This is pretty hardcore!!

[17 November 2019 21:51 · roisin.oconnor]

Roman and Miles are up next, I feel like they're going to try and do it quicker than the first two.

[17 November 2019 21:52 · roisin.oconnor]

YES ANT WE GET IT, IT'S BLOWY

[17 November 2019 21:54 · roisin.oconnor]

Right so now I'm worried for Kate Garrett.

[17 November 2019 22:00 · roisin.oconnor]

I don't understand why the producers were allowed to be heard laughing in the background at all Ant and Dec's lame jokes, it's like watching a bad pantomime.

[17 November 2019 22:03 · roisin.oconnor]

So Andrew has managed to hit his button... and so has Kate!

[17 November 2019 22:09 · roisin.oconnor]

Right so two of the contestants have to row to the campsite, from the sound of things, and Caitlyn and Nadine I think* are going skydiving.

[17 November 2019 22:18 · roisin.oconnor]

Caitlyn Jenner is so chill about just throwing herself out of a plane.

[17 November 2019 22:20 · roisin.oconnor]

Yay Nadine! What a trooper.