I’m a Celebrity live: Viewing figures revealed as 2024 stars enter jungle
The public have voted for GK Barry to take on the Bushtucker Trial in tonight’s episode
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Your support makes all the difference.The 2024 cast of I’m a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! are settling into life in the jungle after a chaotic launch episode that saw them drink gruesome cocktails and skydive out of helicopters.
In tonight’s episode, internet star GK Barry will take part in tonight’s Bushtucker Trial, which is called “Vile Volcano”, while the rest of the campmates get to know each other.
Sunday night’s launch episode saw fans single out Radio 1’s Dean McCullough as an early favourite after he made a “hilarious” joke about fellow campmate Rooney’s “Wagatha Christie” trial the moment he met her.
Among this year’s contestants are N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos, Coronation Street actor Alan Halsall and Strictly Come Dancing pro Oti Mabuse. Others include McFly singer Danny Jones, boxer Barry McGuigan and Coleen Rooney, who is the show’s highest-paid star in its history.
ITV revealed on Monday (18 November) that the first episode was watched by a peak of eight million, and an average of seven million. This is on a par with last year’s launch, with both respective episodes down from the nine million viewers reached in 2022.
New episodes of I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! air on ITV1 and ITVX every night at 9pm.
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During the first advertisement break in the hit ITV show, which saw celebrities such as Coleen Rooney, Alan Halsall and Tulisa Contostavlos enter the jungle, a humourous commercial for Kay was aired.
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Coleen Rooney gave her campmates an insight into her relationship with Wayne Rooney, who she has lived with since she was 16 years old.
“Was it love at first sight?” asked Oti Mabuse. “It was for him. Not for me.”
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Fans bemoaned the absence of the celebrities’ phone numbers on their T-shirts, which had typically been printed on their clothes to help remind viewers at home of their respective numbers when calling to vote.
On X/Twitter, one fan wrote: “Hate that they have their full name on the back of their shirts and no number to call it looks stupid #imaceleb.”
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The Independent’s Katie Rosseinsky did not find herself at all entertained by this year’s first episode.
“If anything, the celebrities seem, whisper it, too nice – which is great for their enjoyment levels, but, let’s be honest, not so good for us viewers at home,” she writes.
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