Lily Waddell
I'm a Celebrity's Rev Richard Coles and Maura Higgins 'shamelessly' lie to main camp
Celebrities will quit over Dean McCullough doing the Bushtucker trials, joke Ant and Dec.
Lily Waddell
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I'm a Celebrity's new campmates Maura Higgins and Reverend Richard Coles are "shamelessly" lying to main camp, hosts Ant and Dec have said.
The Rev and Love Island star are settling into a separate camp away from the other 10 celebrities, including Coleen Rooney and McFly's Danny Jones. To their surprise, they are living in a luxurious camp with a double bed, mini fridge, bath and snacks.
However, their secret mission means they cannot let main camp know and they must even convince them they are really roughing it. So far they've managed to beg the main camp for a bed — that they didn't even need — but it's all part of the plan. If Higgins and Coles are successful, the whole camp will win a buffet.
Behind the scenes, this has been amusing Ant and Dec who joked the pair were "shameless" for not doing the chores and lying to the 10 celebs. "They are shameless," they joked when the pair were supposedly tasked with doing the main camp's washing up. In reality, Higgins and Coles do not have to do their washing up — even though main camp think they are.
I'm a Celebrity jungle highlights
Elsewhere in the episode, Ant and Dec joked the stars would threaten to quit if Dean McCullough continues doing the trials because they have all been going hungry.
Last year Grace Dent and Jamie Lynn Spears quit the ITV show — so Ant and Dec found a way to make light of stars leaving the jungle early.
The radio presenter shouted I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here and only managed to get four stars in Lethal Lab trial. It comes after a series of terrible trials. McCullough and GK Barry got zero stars on Wednesday and he got two stars on his own on Tuesday.
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Dean McCullough and Danny Jones are doing the trial
Dean McCullough and Danny Jones are teaming up for the High Street of Horrors trial.
It will be McCullough's fourth trial in a row. On Tuesday, he got two stars. Wednesday he got zero stars while with GK Barry. By Thursday he had managed to get four stars.
How will he fare with the musician's help?
- Lily Waddell
Maura Higgins makes cheeky joke about sleeping with a vicar
Known for her witty sense of humour, Maura Higgins makes an incredibly cheeky joke about climbing into bed with Rev Richard Coles on their first night together.
She says in a piece to camera: "I never thought I would see the day I'm about to sleep with a vicar... But my friends wouldn't be shocked."
Meanwhile, the Rev is just worried he is going to be snoring all night.
There were two in the bed and the little one said… 🛌 #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/84VT2EWTny
— I'm A Celebrity... (@imacelebrity) November 21, 2024
- Lily Waddell
Maura Higgins and Rev Richard Coles are loving being 'evil'
Maura Higgins and Rev Richard Coles are enjoying being "evil" by lying to the main camp.
"I never knew evil could be so much fun. Thanks to Maura, I now do," Rev says.
Meanwhile, Maura cheekily quips: "I taught him well."
They don't even need to earn their food like the main camp. The pair are gifted wild boar meat. Higgins does the prep and Coles cooks up a storm.
Higgins confesses: "I'm in a severe food coma."
- Lily Waddell
Maura Higgins and Rev Richard Coles send begging letter to camp
Maura Higgins and Rev Richard Coles make a plea to I'm a Celeb main camp.
They write they are "miserable" and "living in a hell hole" and they say they want a camp bed. It's a secret mission in order to win the whole camp a buffet.
Jane Moore and Dean McCullough are feeling really bad for them and they decide either one of them will give up their bed to the other camp (who are secretly living it up in luxury!).
- Lily Waddell
All the secret contrabands are out after I'm a Celeb warning
Melvin Odoom warns the I'm a Celeb stars they have to give up the contraband.
Former boxer Barry McGuigan shocks the camp by outing the teabags. "Presumably it's the teabags?" He says.
Alan Halsall and Oti Mabuse have a good giggle. Dean McCullough confesses to the crime in the Bush Telegraph. "Tea bags fell into my backpack," Dean says. "I'm sorry."
McGuigan says it was best for them to own up to it because he didn't want them to lose out anymore food.
Tulisa also admits someone has snuck her something to use in the food but she didn't want to use it. "I didn't want to get punished," she says.
It is Odoom who gave Tulisa the salt.
No need for Wagatha Christie to work this one out!
- Lily Waddell
Punishment for camp after tea contraband
Me 3 minutes into my diet… #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/fALidkh83m
— I'm A Celebrity... (@imacelebrity) November 21, 2024
Melvin Odoom is furious to find out he has completed the challenge — only to lose half of the cupcakes because of the tea contraband.
Dean McCullough had sneaked in teabags to the jungle and some of the stars enjoyed a cuppa. Ant and Dec had been waiting to get their revenge.
They decide to strike when the celebs are least expecting it — meaning the stars now have to split five cupcakes between them.
"Contraband has consequences!" Ant and Dec cheerfully announce to I'm a Celeb watchers.
It's true: revenge is sweet!
- Lily Waddell
Melvin Odoom totally trusts new I'm a Celeb campmates
Reverend Richard is surprisingly good at being bad 😈 #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/Yi22jpPPAV
— I'm A Celebrity... (@imacelebrity) November 21, 2024
Melvin Odoom completely believes Maura Higgins and Rev Richard Coles as he's being covered in offal, meanwhile they are totally clean and even enjoying snacks.
"Don't cry Maura," he says.
The Love Island star keeps saying "jesus christ" and having to apologise for blasphemy to the rev.
"I'm starving," she complains, while munching on grapes.
- Lily Waddell
Maura Higgins and Richard Coles deceive Melvin Odoom
Maura Higgins and Rev Richard Coles have to persuade Melvin Odoom they're having a terrible time.
Meanwhile, they're actually having a relaxing time during the challenge while throwing nasties all over Odoom.
Odoom says: "We're all going to go through this together." They're trying to win the cupcakes. "I'm trying to work out who is going through a worse time, you or me?"
- Lily Waddell
Ant and Dec joke Maura Higgins and Rev Richard Coles are shameless
Coleen Rooney and GK Barry were horrified at the "fake" Junkyard Jungle, with all the luxuries hidden away from them.
They felt bad leaving their dirty dishes with them when Maura Higgins and Rev Richard Coles sneakily enjoyed deceiving them.
Ant and Dec revealed behind the scenes that Higgins and Coles will not be doing the chores. "They're shameless," they joke. Although of course, the Geordie presenters know full well it's exactly what they do every year — enjoying the luxury while the celebs are roughing it in the jungle.
- Lily Waddell
Maura Higgins and Richard Coles to meet I'm a Celeb campers
When the alarm goes off, Maura Higgins and Rev Richard Coles are getting a warning someone from main camp is nearby.
They then must hide their luxuries. "We must rinse it," she tells him.
Richard Coles asks: "What does that mean?"
"Make it so convincible." She says.
- Lily Waddell
Richard Coles comes up with cunning plan to deceive I'm a Celeb stars
Maura Higgins and Rev Richard Coles must convince the other camp they are roughing it.
They must get one of the stars to give up their bed — even though it is them who is living in luxury.
Rev Richard Coles comes up with a cunning plan. He said Higgins must pretend to be distressed and he will say he's really worried about her.
It's a plan. Will it work?
- Lily Waddell
Maura Higgins and Richard Coles are delighted with posh camp transformation
Maura influencing a priest was not on my 2024 bingo card #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/ZFCl2buUuC
— I'm A Celebrity... (@imacelebrity) November 21, 2024
Richard Coles and Maura Higgins are delighted when the camp is transformed in front of their eyes.
They get a double bed that unfolds, a bubble bath, robes, a mini fridge with food and more.
The pair are tasked with secret mission in I'm a Celeb: they must lie to the other campers saying they are roughing it.
Higgins is delighted they have great camp and that she is a good liar. Rev Richard Coles promises to learn fast.
"They can starve!" She says.
- Lily Waddell
Maura Higgins declares it is 's***' I'm a Celeb camp on arrival
Maura Higgins says it is "s*** camp" when she joins Rev Richard Coles in the Jungle Junkyard.
The Love Island star admits she's terrified of spiders and the priest says he is worried about looking fat on TV!
- Lily Waddell
Richard Coles is not happy with I'm a Celebrity's separate camp
Rev Richard Coles is unimpressed by the I'm a Celeb camp.
Looking round the Jungle Junkyard"Tiny camp. Lots of old junk lying around. It's a very basic camp indeed."
Coles admits he once fell asleep by some bins outside a nightclub in Ibiza and that's what he compares this camp too.
- Lily Waddell
Coleen Rooney reveals Wayne Rooney's romantic gesture
Coleen Rooney detailed Wayne Rooney's special gesture to her.
She told GK Barry: "Wayne's always wrote me poems."
The podcast star can't believe it. She says: "Wayne Rooney?"
Coleen says: "You know the hotel pads? He was always writing a little poem and putting it in his bag and he’d give it to me when we got home."
GK says: "That is so cute!"
The social media influencer hints she would like her girlfriend Ella to write her poems when she comes out the jungle.
- Lily Waddell
Coleen Rooney says the public wanted her to split from Wayne Rooney
Coleen Rooney opened up about her relationship with Wayne Rooney.
She detailed she felt the pressure from people who wanted her to split from Rooney after mistakes he has made. Defiantly, she declared she has always loved him.
She adds: "Since the first mistake he’s made, that’s been in the public, people have not forgiven. When things have happened the public have wanted it to just go oh, split, you know, that's it, split them up. But the fact is, there's always been love still there."
She goes on to say: "It has been difficult, but we're happy now, after all those years… We're a team.”
- Lily Waddell
Check out the next Bushtucker trial
The voting is now open for the next Bushtucker trial. Who will you vote for?
Will it be Dean McCullough... again?
The Vote is open! Head to the App now to send two Campmates on an all expenses paid trip to The High Street of Horrors 🛍️https://t.co/1T3gDe0DE8 #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/50qf8t0D7y
— I'm A Celebrity... (@imacelebrity) November 21, 2024
- Lily Waddell
Dean McCullough is bathed by celebs for getting four stars
Ant and Dec are speechless after Dean McCullough got a "hero's welcome" for only getting four stars.
Danny Jones even bathed the radio star!
Ant said: "What the bloody hell. They give him a hero's welcome and a bubble bath!"
It got him asking what they would do if he got 10 stars. "Don't ask," says Dec. "We couldn't show it!" He jokes.
- Lily Waddell
Dean McCullough shouts I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here
Ignorance is bliss. (kinda) 😌 #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/Fi03BQwkNU
— I'm A Celebrity... (@imacelebrity) November 21, 2024
Dean McCullough shouted I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here again — and this time over fish guts.
The first time he had called I'm a Celebrity this week was because of sand.
This time round Ant and Dec couldn't believe the radio star had faced spiders and snakes but he couldn't handle the fish guts. All because he didn't know what it was.
The whole camp celebrated McCullough getting four stars though.
- Lily Waddell
Dean McCullough gets third star but fails to do fourth
Dean McCullough has a new tactic for the trials.
"I don't want to know," he tells Ant and Dec. "Please don't tell me."
McCullough managed to get another star with his tongue but failed to get the fourth star.
- Lily Waddell
Dean McCullough gets two stars so far
Lethal Lab is underway.
Dean McCullough is wearing "safety gloves" containing insects. "What's the crack?" The radio star asks them.
The radio star successfully completes the task and gets two star
"They're all over my arms!" He declares. "They're all over my armpits."
- Lily Waddell
Celebs are going to quit over Dean McCullough doing the trials, joke Ant and Dec
Ant and Dec hilariously joked that the celebs were going to quit because Dean McCullough was doing the Bushtucker trials.
McCullough has been doing badly with the trials — only getting two on Tuesday and zero when he took on the trial with GK Barry on Wednesday.
They joked there would be stars "quitting" — but not Dean McCullough. The presenter jested it would be the nine other celebrities who would walk because they were so hungry!
Terrors are unleashed in the Lethal Lab 🪳 and Dean’s got some very hungry Celebs to feed… #ImACeleb returns tonight at 9pm on ITV1, STV and ITVX. pic.twitter.com/6sJDhEXyC1
— I'm A Celebrity... (@imacelebrity) November 21, 2024
- Lily Waddell
Stars enjoy illegal I'm a Celeb tea
Barry McGuigan is shocked to find out the celebs got their hands on tea.
Those watching at home had learned Dean McCullough had sneaked in the tea bags — but it had been noticed by Ant and Dec.
"Why are they dark?" Barry asks Dean.
Alan jokes: "We got a bit of mud in the kettle but if you try it, it’s not too bad.”
Barry is still unsure and takes a sip cautiously. Then he realises it is tea. "Fantastic!" He says.
The celebs celebrate with a cheers. Dean says, "To whatever today has in store."
- Lily Waddell
Ant and Dec spit out their coffee over contraband
Ant and Dec spat their tea out as they playfully mocked Dean McCullough for smuggling in tea and sharing it with the other celebs.
They agreed: "Contraband equals consequences."
The Geordie presenters said the celebs wouldn't get away with it. "They need to wake up and smell the coffee!"
It descended into jokes about coffee and airfryers.
- Lily Waddell
Ant and Dec mock Dean McCullough getting zero stars
Ant and Dec opened the show making fun at Dean McCullough.
They mocked him saying he was "waking up surrounded by stars" — unlike Wednesday's trial where he and GK Barry got zero stars. This meant everyone went hungry, dining on just beans and rice for dinner.
- Lily Waddell
Dean McCullough makes plea to Ant and Dec in latest trial
Dean McCullough is taking on the latest Bushtucker trial Lethal Lab in Thursday's episode.
Locked in a container, his head is in a separate unit where he get the star with his tongue. Only he's not in there alone. There are some nasty bugs dropped on him!
In tense scenes, Ant and Dec are about to reveal the insects they are putting in the boxes before McCullough makes a plea. "Don't tell me," he says. He repeats this several times.
Dec agrees he won't tell him what is going to be dropped in the box. Instead, he says that the celebrity will have "company".
Will McCullough be able to hold his nerve? It comes after he and GK Barry got zero stars in Wednesday's trial. It follows McCullough's Egypt-themed trial where he only got two stars for camp.
Everyone is getting pretty hungry back at camp...
Terrors are unleashed in the Lethal Lab 🪳 and Dean’s got some very hungry Celebs to feed… #ImACeleb returns tonight at 9pm on ITV1, STV and ITVX. pic.twitter.com/6sJDhEXyC1
— I'm A Celebrity... (@imacelebrity) November 21, 2024
- Lily Waddell
Maura Higgins jets to I'm a Celebrity from Las Vegas
Maura Higgins is fresh from her trip in Las Vegas.
From Las Vegas Casinos to Dingo Dollars, the Love Island star is heading Down Under to give up her luxury celebrity lifestyle.
And she did zero preparation in advance.
She says: "I have probably been doing the worst thing by loading up on all my favourite foods, drinking as much red wine as I can and eating as much pasta. I probably should have weaned myself o things, but that’s not how my brain works!"
- Lily Waddell
Maura Higgins is 'stripping back' her glamorous looks on I'm a Celeb
I'm a Celebrity is worlds away from Love Island.
Yet the glamorous reality star Maura Higgins is looking forward to ditching her fake tan and make-up.
Plus, she is happy about leaving behind her phone too.
She said: "It will be nice to strip back. I love my fake tan but I am excited to be without it. My skin is going to be flawless. It really is a detox and I am excited to have a phone detox too."
- Lily Waddell
Richard Coles reveals biggest I'm a Celebrity fears
As well as going in late, Reverend Richard Coles has concerns over how he will cope with the lack of eating.
The reality TV star has good reason to be concerned after GK Barry and Dean McCullough won zero stars in the Bushtucker trial on Wednesday. That followed a night where McCullough won two stars. The radio star takes centre stage again for the trial in Thursday's episode.
Coles shared his fears saying: "I am also worried about how I am going to cope with educating myself on 500 calories a day. Five hundred calories is normally elevenses for me!"
Being an I'm a Celebrity late arrival is tougher, says Rev Richard Coles
Reverend Richard Coles admits going in late is a tough gig.
“I have flown in from Brazil and the Amazon to do this, as I have been giving some talks there. It’s a tougher gig being the late entrant as you already have some groups forming.
"And I am nervous of going in there and not recognising people. You could be talking to the most famous influencer in the world and not know who it is. So that will be tricky."
- Lily Waddell
What we know about Maura Higgins
What about Maura Higgins? Here is what we know!
Phobias: I am scared of absolutely everything! I wouldn’t touch a worm, ant – it’s going to be a massive challenge for me.
Biggest misconception you want to dispel in the jungle? The only reality show I have done is Love Island, which is based around finding love and talking about relationships. This is my chance to show my vulnerable side and talk about work, rather than boys.
Role in camp: It’s definitely either cooking or chores. I love to cook and clean at home.
Aside from family, what will you miss the most whilst in camp: My sleep mask for my eyes and watching Titanic at night, as that is what I fall asleep to.
Best & worst attributes: I feel like I will bring humour to the camp and not take things too seriously. I will be encouraging of others. Worst? I can be loud at times and I am impatient.
Dream camper: Rihanna. I have an obsession with her! She can sing us a few songs in camp.
- Lily Waddell
Who is Rev Richard Coles?
Here are some fun facts about Rev Richard Coles.
Phobias: I’m not great on heights but I don’t want them to find out!
Biggest misconception you want to dispel in the jungle? Nothing. People can think what they like. It’s a free country.
Role in camp: I love cooking but I am not sure how good I will be cooking crocodile.
Aside from family, what will you miss the most whilst in camp: My phone. I spend half my life connecting with people. I will also miss the piano.
Best & worst attributes: I used to be a vicar and so I would like to think I’m good at getting on with lots of different people. My worst? I do snore. I have to wear this anti-snoring thing at home and my partner gets very short tempered. I hope I don’t torment people too much with that!
Dream camper: Kevin De Bruyne - I would be a bit tongue tied if I met him but I think he is the best footballer in the world.
- Lily Waddell
Who is Maura Higgins dating? Love Island star joins I'm a Celebrity as new campmate
Maura Higgins is rumoured to be dating close friend Pete Wicks, who is starring on Strictly. They have been seen kissing but both parties insist they are good friends.
Falling in love in the jungle — like Katie Price and Peter Andre in 2004 — is not part of the plan.
She says: “I am single at the moment, but honestly no-one is going to fancy me in the jungle. Trust me!”
“The only reality show I have done is Love Island, which is based around finding love and talking about relationships,” she adds. “This is my chance to show my vulnerable side and talk about work, rather than boys.”
- Lily Waddell
Meet I'm a Celebrity's new campmates
The I'm a Celebrity camp is about to be shaken up thanks to its two new arrivals.
I'm a Celebrity's new campmates Maura Higgins and Reverend Richard Coles are joining the ITV jungle show — alongside the likes of Coleen Rooney, Barry McGuigan and GK Barry.
Two very different characters, Higgins and Coles are certainly going to bring lots to jungle camp life.
In a surprise twist they will not be joining their 10 fellow I'm a Celebrity stars just yet!
Ant and Dec have tasked the jungle newbies with a secret mission. It's been kept tightly under wraps but we can't wait to see how it unfolds in Thursday's episode.
Two new Bombshells are about enter the Jungle. 💛 Pray for them! 🙏 Welcome Reverend Richard Coles and Maura Higgins! #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/l0UbgKriYz
— I'm A Celebrity... (@imacelebrity) November 20, 2024
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