Fans of ITV's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! have voiced their disappointment, labelling Wednesday night's Bushtucker trial the 'dullest' of the series so far. The criticism erupted on social media as viewers compared the seemingly low-key challenge to more extravagant tasks from earlier in the week.
Dangerous Discoveries Fails to Impress
The trial in question, named 'Dangerous Discoveries', saw contestant Jack Osbourne tasked with finding eight ancient coin stars buried in sand. Jack, who has built a reputation for excelling in trials, was positioned in an archaeological dig site. For the first part, he was strapped on his back and had to search four 'hell holes' containing various creatures to find four stars.
In the second stage, he could move freely to locate the remaining four stars hidden across the site, all within a ten-minute time limit. The holes contained yabbies, scorpions, toads, frilled lizards, small crocodiles, spiders, snakes, and a ridge tail lizard—a series first according to hosts Ant and Dec.
Viewers Question ITV's Budget
Despite Jack's successful retrieval of seven out of eight stars, fans were left underwhelmed. Many took to X, formerly Twitter, to express their boredom and directly question whether ITV's budget had been 'slashed' for the challenge. The sentiment was heavily influenced by the previous night's trial, which featured Shona McGarty in a large-scale, big-budget task.
Comments from viewers included claims that the trial was 'boring' and 'not hard', with one fan stating, 'This is the dullest trial I've ever seen.' Another speculated, 'Either the budget has been slashed or the trail creative team have brain fog. Most trials this year have been remixes of another earlier trial.' The contrast was stark, with one user noting, 'The way Shona had the hardest trial last night whilst Jack has possibly the easiest trial of the series so far.'
Camp Fallout from 'Milkgate' Continues
Wednesday's episode also dealt with the ongoing fallout from the 'milkgate' scandal, where campmates Kelly Brook, 'Ginge', and Aitch secretly ate communal milk bottle sweets. With Kelly now voted off, Ginge attempted to clear his name by placing the blame solely on her, a move that did not sit well with the remaining celebrities.
Shona McGarty was reportedly particularly unimpressed with Ginge's deflection, especially after she herself faced significant backlash earlier for using contraband butter. Following the trial, a weary Jack Osbourne summed up his experience to Ant and Dec, quipping, 'That was the worst dig in the sand I've ever had!'—a feeling seemingly shared by a sizable portion of the audience at home.
