We’re now just two days away from the start of I’m A Celebrity 2015, and the nice people over at ITV have opened up the jungle camp to allow us to have a sneaky little peek at what the stars have in store.
It’s all change in the jungle base – they’ve made it much more cosy, with a private space for any would-be lovers to get comfortable in.
Oh, and there’s a vending machine selling toilet seats. Because of course there is.
Here’s what’s changed in the I’m A Celeb camp this year.
The leader’s throne
Yep, an actual plush red throne has been flown into the depths of the Australian jungle to provide a perch for the bottom of the camp leader. What camp leader? Oh, that’s for us to find out next week, apparently.
Executive producer Tom Gould told The Mirror: “This is the first time we’ve had a leader in camp for a few years. There will be different people taking the leader’s chair over the course of the series and they will be appointed in different ways.
“They will have various privileges, as well as various responsibilities. The chair is one of the top perks of the job and it’s surprising how much they value a soft seat,” he continued.
“They will have to allocate jobs to the other campmates and there will be various other decisions and choices that they will have to make.”
The vending machine
This might end up amounting to genuine psychological torture, because not only will the machine be stuffed full of treats like chocolate and fizzy drinks – plus is that a jar of Nutella we spy? – it’ll also be put right in the campmates’ eyeline. And there’ll be no way to access said treats unless the celebs win enough Dingo Dimes to spend in it. Just imagine that: a week of eating nothing but rice and koala bums, and all the while there’s a jar of Nutella winking at you in the sunlight.
Oh, and the campmates will have to decide what to buy as a group. TORTURE.
The loo
Swallow whatever you’re chewing right now, because this is gross. The dunny, as it’s known in the camp, is still just a wooden bog inside a wooden hut, but this time there’s nothing to actually sit on. Meaning the celebs will have to scrimp all their Dingo Dimes to afford toilet seats and other ‘luxuries’.
Remind us why they’re going in again?
The creek
Remember the bit down by the river where Peter Andre inhaled the scent of Katie Price’s minging braids and whispered sweet nothings to her? Well that lovers’ location has been updated to make it way more private (aside from the cameras and the millions of viewers…) in the hopes more of the celebrities will, er, make themselves at home.
The Mirror is branding this space a ‘SEX DEN’, which is nice and subtle. Executive producer Tom explained that it’s a private area “for romance and to get away from the others”.
“It gets a lot of sun, so it could also be an area for sunbathing,” he went on.
“Before, the treehouse was an area where they could go and have some private time as a couple – but it never really felt like they were out of the camp there. Down at the bottom of the creek is completely out of the way.”
Jesus. Can you even imagine the smell if Spencer Matthews gets in there first? Spunky. (Soz.)
Aaaand that’s pretty much it. The show bosses are keeping that red phone box where it is so they can communicate with the stars, but other than that they’re on their own.
Catch the I’m A Celeb launch on Sunday 15 November at 9pm on ITV.