I’m A Celeb star exposes big fat show LIE

It's only taken two decades for the I'm A Celeb secret to be exposed

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by Eden-Olivia Lord |
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This year’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! truly has been what we need during this freezing cold autumn (yes, it’s not officially winter until 21 December).

We have Coleen Rooney being an absolute babe, Dean McCullough has left us in tears of laughter during the Bushtucker trials and why is Oti Mabuse the sweetest person ever?

It’s seriously making us want to sign up for the show. Well, after we become full-time influencers, launch a podcast and become a WAG - like GK Barry. Although there’s some parts of the show that would put us off signing up...

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the im a celeb cast ©ITV

Number one - sleeping outside with any animal that roams the jungle.

Number two - those dreaded Bushtucker trials where you’re eating parts of animals you shouldn’t even see.

Number three - emptying the dunny.

You’d have pay us the alleged £1.5million Coleen Rooney’s on to empty that. We’ve seen Dean literally run out of the toilet with his trousers down his legs because of a huge spider…

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dean has been hilarious ©ITV

However, it turns out that all is not as bad as it seems and in fact, cleaning the dunny is one big fat LIE.

According to I’m A Celeb 2003 winner Phil Tufnell, the campmates don’t actually clear out the dunny.

In his memoir Phil explained, ‘A little secret here – the contestants remove the dunny, but don’t actually empty it. They carry it down to a camouflaged wooden hut, tap on the door, and clear off.

‘It's basically an extreme version of that old knock-and-run game where you wrap a bit of dog muck in newspaper, set it on fire, drop it by someone's front door, ring the bell, and leg it.’

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phil won the show in 2003 ©Brian Cassey/Shutterstock

Well, that’s that then.

Phil who is a former England cricketer starred on the show alongside EastEnders’ Danniella Westbrook, Emmerdale’s Chris Bisson and singer Toyah Ann Willcox but he beat them all - so we believe every word he says about the jungle.

And while they don't have to literally clear it out we’d still dread having to go anywhere near that outside toilet in the middle of the jungle with spiders, flies and anything else sharing the room with us.

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Eden-Olivia is the deputy editor of Closer Online and she’s worked in showbiz since 2016. One of her favourite ever I'm A Celeb moments was Dean Gaffney's live trial... She's still laughing about it.

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