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Welcome back to the jungle… I’m a Celebrity returns

The new series of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here starts next month (ITV)
The new series of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here starts next month (ITV)

THE clocks have gone back, the nights are ever longer and with bonfire night past we’re now in a headlong rush to Christmas.

But at least we have I’m A Celebrity  . . . Get Me Out Of Here! to cheer our chilly evenings!

ITV’s jungle japes favourite is back next Sunday its latest run of Down Under delights and drama.

Before this year’s high jinks, here’s our look back at some of the classic moments.

 

FIVE ROMANCES/BROMANCES

  • There’s no topping the love story to beat them all, Katie Price and Peter Andre’s smooch-fest in a hammock in 2004 that led to marriage.
  • Catatonia singer Cerys Matthews’ steamy jungle moments with EastEnders’ Marc Bannerman continued later when he split from his girlfriend.
  • Jake Quickenden and Nadia Forde and Mark Wright and Emily Scott were among those who flirted up a storm.
Peter Andre and Katie Price (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Peter Andre and Katie Price (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
  • Amy Willerton and Joey Essex had a brief love affair after their obvious jungle chemistry.
  • And ‘bromances’ always flourish, from Joe Swash and George Takei to Mark Wright and Dougie Poynter.

FIVE BUST-UPS

  • Darren Day and Tara Palmer-Tomkinson kicked off in the very first series over his flatulence.
  • And wind was behind another monumental shouting match between pop star Brian Harvey and Janet Street-Porter. He quit soon after.
  • Kendra Wilkinson let loose an expletive-ridden rant at ex-MP Edwina Currie who dared to interrupt her reality TV musings.
Lady Colin Campbell (ITV)
Lady Colin Campbell (ITV)
  • Boxer Nigel Benn told Scots comedian Rhona Cameron she was lucky she wasn’t a man or else he’d knock her out.
  • At the centre of last year’s big talking points, Lady C could fill a series on her own. Choreographer Brian Friedman said she gave him bullying flashbacks, while she had run-ins with Duncan Bannatyne, Tony Hadley and Janet Ellis.

FIVE SHOWER MOMENTS

  • If only Myleene Klass knew what she was doing. Actually, she probably did when she donned that white bikini back in 2006.
  • Many still have flashbacks at the sight of Matthew Wright recreating that look three years ago.
Myleene Klass (ITV)
Myleene Klass (ITV)
  • Boxer David Haye won over female fans with his naked dips in 2012.
  • Corrie star Helen Flanagan took several bikinis to get pulses racing.
  • And sexy shower outfits last year may also have helped Vicky Pattison go all the way to becoming Queen of the Jungle.

FIVE TRIAL TERRORS

  • Princess Diana’s butler Paul Burrell looked traumatised as he had to actually remove a testicle from a kangaroo before eating it.
  • TOWIE’S Ferne McCann won admirers last year for having snakes crawl all over her face in an underground chamber.
  • Athlete Fatima Whitbread had viewers gasping as medics had to flush a cockroach from up her nose. She kept it as a souvenir.
  • The screams are probably still reverberating from EastEnder Dean Gaffney’s time in the “jungle spa” which literally made him sick.
  • Every trial was a terror for Helen Flanagan – so viewers picked her time after time. She just refused!

 

FIVE FUNNIEST MOMENTS

  • Snooker player Steve Davis tripping and tumbling headfirst into a pool before he’d even started a challenge.
  • TOWIE star Joey Essex revealing he couldn’t tell the time and Amy Willerton trying to teach him using twigs.
  • Chef Rosemary Shrager kept viewers, if not campmates, endlessly amused with her deafening snoring.
  • Michael Buerk went from the newsman who inspired Band Aid to donning a bird costume and doing bird calls on a wire.
  • From refusing to make the helicopter trip in to quitting within three days – and insisting real prisoners received better treatment than she did in her mock jail – Gemma Collins was comedy gold.

FIVE THRIVING JUNGLE KINGS AND QUEENS

  • First winner Tony Blackburn was 59 at the time and it seemed like his major broadcasting days were over. But the success put him right back in the limelight with big-paying TV and radio deals.
  • Italian chef Gino D’Acampo became the nation’s dish of the day. He’s now an ITV hit on This Morning and Let’s Do Lunch, just a couple of the shows that put him on the track to becoming a multi-millionaire.
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Gino
  • Former X Factor star Stacey Solomon cemented her reality telly popularity and has raked in millions since through TV deals.
  • EastEnder Charlie Brooks won by a last-second swing from Ashley Roberts – but it’s the Pussycat Doll who had the last laugh. She landed big TV deals from Dancing On Ice to Saturday Night Takeaway and moved to the UK.
  • Life for last year’s champ Vicky Pattison changed in a heartbeat after the show. The former Geordie Shore bad girl moved into mainstream TV via shows like Loose Women and recently found herself a luxurious £500,000 Essex home.

I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here! ITV, Sunday November 13, 9pm.


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