I’m a Celebrity 2019 launch – as it happened: Caitlyn Jenner, Nadine Coyle, Ian Wright and co enter the jungle
TV and radio stars will face a number of challenges in the Australian bush and compete to be crowned king or queen of the jungle
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Your support makes all the difference.I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! has returned for a brand new series on ITV, hosted by presenting duo Ant and Dec.
This year's clutch of celebrities includes Caitlyn Jenner, Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway, Girls Aloud singer Nadine Coyle and retired footballer Ian Wright.
The show's new cast additionally includes retired rugby player James Haskell, ex-EastEnders actor Jacqueline Jossa, who played Lauren Branning until 2018, and comedian Andrew Maxwell, best known for providing voiceover for the MTV reality show Ex on the Beach.
DJs Adele Roberts (Radio 1), Roman Kemp (Capital FM), and Myles Stephenson, who won The X Factor in 2017 with his band Rak-Su, have also joined the show.
The launch saw the contestants face a number of challenges just to get to the campsites, from skydiving (Coyle and Jenner) to balancing precariously from the top of a building (Garraway, Wright, Maxwell, Jossa, Kemp and Stephenson).
Contestants have been split into two teams, with each at a different campsite.
Jenner has already emerged as a clear favourite, with fans on social media praising her for her level-headed and apparently fearless approach to each task.
The liveblog has now closed
See the full list of celebrity contestants here, and read our columnist Fiona Sturges's thoughts on the show here.
I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here continues Monday 18 November at 9pm on ITV
My greatest fear is that Nadine will learn how to pronounce "flour" (as in, not "flooooyerrrr") on the show
Oh god they're going for "dramatic" with the tone rather than fun.
Right so Dec's already fluffed his opening lines, we're off to a good start.
Oh we have a Prince Andrew joke!! (Dec, "not everybody can sweat, apparently")
I reckon Kate Garraway will be interesting on this. The guy from Rak-Su is trying to take on the role of "troublemaker" but will clearly just sit on the sidelines and get voted off when people eventually notice he's still there.
So what ITV has done here is start filming the show in exactly the same way as Love Island, including the wannabe "epic" pop music, the drama that isn't really drama, and lots of slow motion.
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