Hold onto your stomachs, folks—I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! is cranking up the gross factor to unprecedented levels with a brand-new trial that’s guaranteed to make you gag from the comfort of your couch. Dubbed the “Rivals” challenge, this nightmare showdown is set to divide the camp into winners and losers like never before, turning the jungle into a battlefield of slime, stench, and sheer survival.
Picture this: the celebrities are pitted against each other in head-to-head duels on a spinning, comic book-inspired stage that adds a dizzying twist to the torment. The stakes? Sky-high. Victorious pairs will bask in the luxury of “Win City,” complete with all the perks a celeb could dream of in the wild. But the defeated? They’ll be banished to the dismal depths of “Doomsville”—a barren hellhole with no beds, just basic rations of rice and beans, and a whole lot of regret.
Last night’s sneak peek from Unpacked’s Kemi Rodgers had fans recoiling in horror as she unveiled the first round of this revolting rivalry. Pairs of stars must plunge their faces into overflowing boxes brimming with slippery slime and the putrid remains of rotting fish guts, fishing out stars using nothing but their mouths. Kemi didn’t mince words: the odor alone is “horrific,” a nauseating assault on the senses that lingers like a bad nightmare. And if you thought that was the peak of repulsion, brace yourself—the challenges escalate with pig brains squishing underfoot, bloody offal sloshing around, and live snakes slithering into the mix. All this while the rest of the camp watches on, ramping up the pressure to fever-pitch levels. Who will crack first under the gaze of their rivals?
But rewind to the night before, where the show’s infamous Bushtucker Trials sparked a firestorm of controversy. Reality TV royalty Jack Osbourne tackled his solo ordeal, “Drown The Hatch,” and absolutely demolished it in what felt like the blink of an eye. The setup? Eight underwater chambers, each a submerged puzzle hiding stars amid creepy crawlies like water dragons, mud crabs, eels, and toads. With just two minutes per chamber and a goal of twelve stars total, Jack confessed pre-dive: “I’m a little nervous about doing this alone… I have to come back with ten stars.”
What followed was pure domination. Ant and Dec could barely contain their shock as Jack blitzed the first chamber in a jaw-dropping 26 seconds. His lightning pace never faltered, conquering all eight sections with time to spare and snagging every single star. Emerging triumphant, he even dubbed the watery gauntlet “fun!”—a sentiment that left viewers divided.
Social media erupted in a frenzy. Critics blasted the trial as “too easy,” with one fan tweeting, “Jack did well but methinks the trials are a bit too easy this year.” Another groaned, “This is boring to watch cause Jack is making it look easy,” while a third echoed, “Jack is making this look so easy!” Yet, amid the backlash, praise poured in for the Osbourne heir. “WOW Jack, he is jungle’s own Aquaman!” raved one supporter, and another hailed the dad-of-four: “Oh my god Jack is a machine!”
As the Rivals challenge unfolds, one thing’s clear: if last night’s “easy” trial ruffled feathers, this gut-churning spectacle is about to redefine disgust. Will the stars rise to the occasion or retch in defeat? Tune in—the jungle just got a whole lot messier!