The I'm a Celebrity camp has some key features that have been in the show for years including the well-known waterfall.
Stars of the show have been seen showering under the running water in swimwear. It's been two years since the Celebs have been an environment where it's hot enough to get their kit off as the ITV show temporarily moved to Wales for the coronavirus pandemic.
But now, the campmates are back in the Australian jungle surrounded by the usual set that we all know and love. The celebs have worked together to complete Bushtucker trials, and while there's nothing fake about the challenges, not everything is as it seems in the Australian jungle the campmates call home, reported The Mirror.
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After her stay in 2006, journalist Lauren Booth said: "The waterfall, like the pool beneath it, was not part of the jungle at all, but a man-made creation." She added: "Unless, of course, 'real' rainforest waterfalls get turned off between three and six every afternoon."
Then there's the small matter of the rocks that surround the jungle camp. That same year, the late David Gest noticed that the boulders around the camp were actually hollow and appeared to be made from papier-mache.
Why? So that crafty camermen could hide in them. But they eventually gave themselves away by shifting around or being heard stifling yawns by campmates.
A source close to the show previously addressed the trickery, explaining that certain things have to be built by hand, "because they don't naturally occur where one would like them to." Meanwhile, the rain you see is real, but there's a reason that campfire never goes out - even in the most torrential downpour.
It turns out there's actually a retractable canopy 50ft up in the air. However, it's not completely weather-proof and leaks if the rain is too heavy. And speaking to the Daily Mail, a source insisted, "A lot of the camp is not under shelter — it's not like the roof at Wimbledon!"
As for the bugs, with 250,000 cockroaches, 153,000 crickets, 2.5million mealworms, 500 rats, 30 snakes, six metre-long crocodiles and 20 small crocodiles used in 2013 for example, there's a big demand to fill. So rather than run around the jungle trying to catch insects, the bugs are actually bought from a creepy crawly breeding factory.
The process doesn't always go without a hitch though. In 2004 former East 17 star Brian Harvey took part in a gruesome House of Pies Bushtucker Trial which involved burying his face in fly-filled pies to collect stars.
But according to reports, the insects had been bred in such a way that they couldn't even fly. And some years there's a shortage of bugs, like in 2012 when weather conditions across Australia sparked a cockroach crisis.
The following year witchetty grubs had to be struck off the menu because they hadn't bred successfully and one series desperate producers apparently paid locals $5 for every spider they could find. When it comes to the bigger creatures, those crocs aren't quite as menacing as they seem. And that's because the baby ones apparently have their jaws tied shut to prevent any of the celebs getting bitten.
Furthermore, two giant crocodiles seen basking on the riverbank during actress Catalina Guirado's trial actually turned out to be latex models - although ITV has said it doesn't use them anymore.
Of course, jungle life isn't all starvation and fear with romances often blossoming around the camp fire. The most famous was Katie Price and Peter Andre who fell for each other in 2004 and tormented the rest of their campmates with endless flirting and massages.
But if they'd met in 2016, they could have conducted their courtship in private thanks to the introduction of a secret sex cave next to the shower. Producer Oli Nash told The Mirror: "Next door is a secret cave which will be hidden behind a locked door. It will be used a number of times through out the series for our celebrities.
"Inside it is just a plain cave with a bench but we will be using it through out the series for various events. The floors are a bit hard - but it can be used for romance."
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