Boy George is brought to the verge of tears as he takes on the first eating bushtucker trial of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! 2022.
In a teaser for the challenge, to be screened on Friday evening, the singer is left dry retching as he chows down on six fermented plums at La Cucaracha Café while fellow campmate and Tory MP Matt Hancock watches on in anticipation of his own disgusting dish.
Having a meal like no other, the performer, who is a vegetarian, likens the fermented fruit to eating “perfume” as his eyes begin to water from the taste.
“Oh, something stopped him in his tracks,” host Declan Donnelly quips after George initially chucked four plums into his mouth.
Having a sense of humour, the Voice Australia star cheekily responds, “the taste”, before he adding that the dish, “tastes like you’re being poisoned”.
The Karma Chameleon singer then began to retch as he tries to scoff down the rest of the meal, insisting: “It’s really disgusting, and I can eat anything”.
Viewers will have to tune into Friday’s episode to see if the pair will bring 13 stars back to camp.
On Thursday’s instalment, it was revealed that the public voted for Hancock to take on his third trial on the jungle series.
Hosts Declan Donnelly and Ant McPartlin revealed the former health secretary, 44, and singer-songwriter Boy George, 61, would be taking on the first eating challenge of this series.
The Geordie duo said both would be eat at La Cucaracha Cafe, which means the Cockroach cafe in Spanish.
The West Suffolk MP joined the jungle on Wednesday, entering the camp with comedian Seann Walsh after facing much criticism over his decision from the public and fellow politicians.
The public also voted for Hancock to take on his second trial, the latest Bushtucker Trial, Tentacles of Terror.
Hancock was trapped inside a octopus-shaped cage full of underwater critters during the latest episode.
The MP was tasked with collecting 11 numbered stars in order as the structure was lowered into the water, managing to do so and winning full rations for the camp.
As Hancock made his way back to the camp after passing his second trial, comedian Walsh and soap star Sue Cleaver discussed his decision to enter the Australian jungle.
Defending him, Walsh said: “That man will have a very different account of what he did to what we all think happened and there will be reasons.
“I’m not justifying anything that that guy did or certainly what that government, the decisions they’ve made, but f*** being in his job when that was going on.”
Cleaver replied: “I totally, totally agree with you, but the choice after everything that happened and the impact on everybody at home and families and people in homes to make a choice to come into I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! does not sit well with me.
“He’s got constituents back at home, he’s a serving member of Parliament.”
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said on Thursday that Hancock should “voluntarily leave” the I’m A Celebrity jungle and return to Parliament.
Taking questions on BBC Radio Humberside, Sir Keir said his decision to enter the show was “wrong”.
“He should get back to Westminster, he should get back to Parliament and do his job,” he said.
