I'm A Celebrity has been hit with weather chaos - just days before the show is due to kick off.
The ITV jungle show will be back this Sunday evening, airing on Virgin Media in Ireland, with three stars - Nigel Farage, Josie Gibson and Nessa Rose - taking on a very special show first challenge. However, the local area has been hit by changing weathers, causing havoc for the team.
Whilst the stars were filming this big segment in the Northern Territory, temperatures were constantly rising and were about 15 degrees above the usual November temperatures, whilst there have also been thunderstorms in the area.
Nigel, Josie and Nessa will be tasked with a special challenge to win time for their other campmates, who will get an unwelcome arrival into the jungle by taking on a string of challenges of their own.
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A source told The Sun of the weather issues: "The changing weather across the dual centres has the team in overdrive – one minute the celebs are boiled and the next they’re soaking wet. This is the most extreme weather in years and it’s making logistics a nightmare. Plans keep changing with each hour that passes as they tick down to launch."
A record number of snakes have been spotted in camp - and the arrival of the celebrities is only going to make it worse.
The show's health and safety boss Jeremy Douglas revealed: "We have had a lot of snakes on the site this year, you get small-eyed snakes and brown tree snakes predominantly," whilst executive producer Laura Woolf added of the situation in camp: "We've had 15 snake sightings across the site and then we've had to identify some venomous ones in camp. It gets worse when the celebs come in because they leave food everywhere. It's like they don't realise they're living in a jungle!"
There will be a new version of the Walk The Plank challenge 100 metres up on top of the Focus Building in Surfers Paradise. Executive producer Laura Woolf added: "The launch show is bigger and there are things we have never done before. One of the trials we have got this year is the highest rig we have ever done in Australia. And there won't be a split camp this time, they will all come to the main camp by the end of the first show and it is nice they will all be together."
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