I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! is going to break its own record this series — in the most disgusting way possible.
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There are some staples of the Bushtucker Trials each year in the jungle: the campmates will have to face the Celebrity Cyclone, eat some horrific delicacies, and they'll also be doused with bugs. Lots and lots of bugs!
I'm a Celebrity trials chief Matt Wilkinson has assured Digital Spy ahead of this weekend's launch that on top of lots of new challenges, he's remixed a classic where the campers will be covered with more bugs than ever before.
"This year, there's a trial that's got the most ever bugs in it," he teased. "We've got 160,000 bugs in one trial. I won't tell you which one it is, but it's very exciting."
As for other trials in the works, Wilkinson revealed: "We've also got a trial with the most snakes ever. It's the most snakes in one trial; it's over 50 of them.
"It's a one-player trial, so it's one person and 50 snakes. We've got the biggest underwater trial ever. It's the biggest construction underwater, which is very, very impressive."
The celebrities are certain to get sympathy from viewers for having to endure these wet-and-wild trials, but co-presenter Holly Willoughby has already made it clear that she won't feel bad for them.
"I'm scared of everything, but it's not for me to be worried about that, that's for the celebrities to be worried about," she said. "They've signed up for that so it's their problem, not mine."
Declan Donnelly and Holly Willoughby host the premiere of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! on Sunday (November 18) at 9pm on ITV.
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