Wayne Rooney was "visibly shaking" while filming the opening episode of the new series of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here, revealing that a skydive is his "biggest fear" of the show. The ITV programme returns on Monday, November 16, with the campmates facing a series of challenges before they even reach camp.
Campmates Face Early Challenges
The series begins with Gavin and Stacey star Joanna Page speeding through the Australian wilderness in the back of a buggy, before meeting up with Ricky Wilson and Sharky, who says he has "just been in the car from hell". They are then joined by Claire Sweeney and Leonie Anderson before hosts Ant and Dec arrive.
Dec tells the contestants: "The niceties end here, because from this moment on you're all in direct competition with one another. You're about to face a challenge where there will be serious consequences for the loser."
Ant then informs them: "This truck is about to become your worst nightmare, because one at a time, you each have to scale it, scramble around the outside of it, whilst locating and igniting three flares, all whilst going around these tracks at speed. If you complete it you'll win a meal for camp tonight."
Rooney's Biggest Fear
Meanwhile, over on the Gold Coast, the remaining six celebrities kick off the experience – some with buggy rides down the beach, while Wayne Rooney hovers above in a helicopter before undertaking a skydive. Visibly shaking in the helicopter, the former Everton star says: "Of my whole career, this is probably my most vulnerable…out of the whole show this is my biggest fear."
Ade Adepitan then explains his attitude going into the series: "My everyday life I live out of my comfort zone, why is the jungle going to be any harder? I'll give it everything I've got." After he also skydives, he kisses the ground and declares: "That's for my son."
Cocktail Challenge Awaits
The six celebrities all then meet up in a rooftop bar at a luxury hotel – and are given their own challenge. Waiters are summoned who are carrying trays of huge cocktails, which are revealed to be "prawn-star martinis", made of fermented prawns and blended fish eyes served in a gigantic fish bowl glass.
Ant explains: "At the bottom of each glass is a different safe word, you have to drain your glass using your straw to suck out the fluid and spit it into the bucket next to the glass."
I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! starts on Monday at 9pm on ITV1, STV and ITVX. Spin-off show Unpacked will air nightly after the main show on ITV2, STV and ITVX, presented by Sam Thompson and Kemi Rodgers.
