Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly have teased the upcoming spin-off of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here. The duo confirmed back in September that there will be a new special series of the ITV reality show after rumours.
The All Stars series has already been filmed in South Africa and is set to air on ITV1 later this year. The programme will feature an all-star cast of celebrities who previously starred on the original version of the show.
Among those reportedly trying to be crowned the ultimate King or Queen of the jungle are Coronation Street's Andy Whyment , who took part in the show in 2019 where he was a close runner-up to former EastEnders star Jacqueline Jossa , former soap star Helen Flanagan, who appeared on the ITV show ten years ago, and former winner Joe Swash who has been away filming for weeks.
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And speaking in an interview for the first time about the series, Ant and Dec admitted that it is "quite brutal". Dec said to Lorraine Kelly on ITV's Lorraine on Friday (January 6): "It's kind of an all-stars… taking some of your favourite campmates from the last 20 years and taking them for a brand new challenge in South Africa.
"So it's a completely different landscape and they’re doing it again. They’re competing to become the first ever I'm A Celebrity Legend of the Savanna. It’s very special."
Ant continued: "And it’s slightly different to the show we do in Australia because they go head to head in trials and whoever loses leaves. It’s quite brutal, so that’s how we decided the winner."
Recalling a funny battle they faced during filming for the series, which came before the usual series in Australia at the end of last year, Ant told Lorraine: "Do you know what though, there was loads of baboons when we filmed the series. There was baboons everywhere. Like we’d be in the middle of doing a trial and then you would just hear the noise, literally just behind the cameraman, and a whole family of baboons…
"Is that what you call them? A group of baboons? A school of baboons? I don’t know. A babble of baboons would just sit watching the trial." To which Dec said: “They came along in the middle of the trial, they just came along and just sat there. That was the audience! Hopefully there will be a few more watching when it goes on telly.” Ant then joked: "We didn’t get any laughs from the baboons."
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