I’m A Celebrity 2019 launches on Sunday night with one of the biggest and most elaborate entrances to the Jungle camp to date.
Ten celebrities have been taken out of their lives of comfort and their journey to the Jungle begins this weekend.
This year’s celebrities are ex-football and broadcaster Ian Wright MBE; pop star Nadine Coyle; ‘Rak-Su’ singer Myles Stephenson; Radio 1 DJ Adele Roberts; comedian Andrew Maxwell; soap star Jacqueline Jossa; Capital Radio DJ Roman Kemp; Olympian and TV personality Caitlyn Jenner; ex-England rugby player James Haskell; and TV and radio presenter Kate Garraway.
In scenes airing tonight on ITV, the celebs started the show split into two groups: Ian, Nadine, Myles, Kate and James arrived by super car and one-by-one boarded a luxury yacht moored off Australia’s stunning Gold Coast.
The five remaining celebrities Roman, Jacqueline, Andrew, Adele and Caitlyn each boarded speedboats and made their way to a beach.
The celebrities on the boat had to race to swim to shore with the winner having the chance to pair up with any one of the five on land. The last one would get no choice of partner.
Once they were teamed up in pairs, they would fight to become one of two Power Pairs who would enjoy special privileges both on the journey to camp and whilst in the Jungle.
The celebrity pairings would have to complete one of three routes to camp – either The Planks, a skydive or a canoe.
Three pairs – Ian & Jacqueline, Roman & Myles and Kate & Andrew – made their way in helicopters to The Focus Building in Australia’s Surfers Paradise. Making their way up to the roof, they were greeted by a structure 334 feet above the ground.
I’m A Celebrity’s infamous Planks were back – but this time they were tougher than ever because not only did each celebrity have to go out, but also down.
In pairs they had to walk to the end of the plank which was suspended off the edge of the building, then climb down the ladder.
They were faced with a red light which later turned green and at which point the celebrity had to hit a switch with their foot (on one leg) as quickly as possible.
Meanwhile, Nadine & Adele and Caitlyn & James made their way in helicopters to the edge of the Jungle.
A laminate revealed they had to make their way to The Pontoon of Doom which contained 5 coloured tokens. The pair who retrieved the tokens in the quickest time would become the final power pair.
James and Adele had to canoe downstream to their Pontoons and retrieve the tokens. However, both Pontoons were locked and they needed a key to open them.
Nadine and Caitlyn had to skydive from 10,000 feet to collect the keys and reunite with their partners at the Pontoon.
Nadine was really nervous before her skydive and started to get teary so Caitlyn gave her a big hug and comforted her.
To find out more tune into I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! Sunday 17th November at 9pm on ITV.
Turn over to ITV2 directly after for companion show I’m A Celebrity…Extra Camp with all the behind the scenes gossip on the ITV show.
This year’s Extra Camp is hosted by Joel Dommett, Emily Atack and Adam Thomas.
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