Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt caused chaos during their short-lived appearance on the US version of I'm A Celebrity. The reality TV stars, who first found fame on The Hills and appeared in two series of Celebrity Big Brother, quit the camp a staggering four times back in the second season of the American edition back in June 2009.
After just two days in the Costa Rican jungle, the couple decided to leave after refusing to take part in the 'trauma tank' trial, where celebrities had to endure a basin of water and bugs. They decided to come back, but things went from bad to worse as they quit another three times, ending with Heidi being rushed to hospital while 'convulsively throwing up'.
The couple had to compete against each other to win for for their respective teams - going into a snake and rat-infested chamber.
"I'm about to go on a competition against my wife, and I'm going to beat her, even though she is my wife," said Spencer.
While Heidi, who had married her husband just two months before, admitted that he would throw her off a cliff to win.
Spencer managed to get two stars, while Heidi could only manage one, and he was obviously very humble after coming out victorious.
"I, of course, won because what I do, I win at," he said. "Not even Spencer Pratt knows what he's going to do -- where I think I might quit, I might end up staying and winning the whole thing."
But Spencer then claimed that it was his "goodbye trial" and announced to the group that he was "too rich and famous" to stay in the jungle.
In another bizarre twist, Spencer got into an argument with American model Janice Dickinson, who also appeared in the UK version, about religion before being baptised by Hollywood actor Stephen Baldwin.
Speidi decided to leave after just two days, claiming ther were "the most famous people in the world" and would rather head back to "The Hills" than stay in the woods.
However, the remaining celebs were not convinced and placed bets on whether the couple would come back into camp.
The couple eventually returned to the camp and were "committed to competing for their respective charities".
"I'm too rich and I'm too famous to be sitting with these people and cleaning up their s**t in the jungle," Access Hollywood claimed he told NBC's head of programming.
"This cast is devaluing our fame right now. I'm sitting next to VH1 comedians that I have never even seen before... I thought it was gonna be all celebrities. Stars of shows get treated like stars.
"Don't throw me in the jungle and try to make me your little guinea pig torture act."
Their antics did not go down well with NBC's head of reality programming, Paul Telegdy, who slammed the couple after their third threat to quit.
"They are everything that's wrong with America," he brutually claimed. "They are insincere, lazy, entitled and they claim the devil has possessed them."
As punishment for repeatedly leaving, Spedi were allowed to return but were kept in isolation away from the rest of the camp.
They were held in a dark room for a day and a night with only water, rice and beans - with one cast member describing their treatment as "the same as Guantanamo Bay".
But the situation took a dark turn as Heidi began 'convulsively throwing up' and was rushed to hospital to have an ultrasound.
Spencer's sister Stephanie Pratt, who appeared in Celebrity Big Brother and Made In Chelsea, blasted the producers for "going too far".
She tweeted: "Heidi was rushed to the hospital and has an IV in her arm after being locked in a dark room for 3 days w no food or water. Pls pray she will be ok…Her family is flying out to see her in the hospital."
A doctor at the Costa Rican hospital was seen telling Heidi that an ultrasound had come back negative and it did not appear to be anything serious.
"Everything seems to be normal by the ultrasound, so it does seem to be more like we were thinking – a gastric ulcer or gastritis," the doctor said.
While at the hospital at his wife's bedside, Spencer revealed why the couple had quit the show for the fourth time.
"We gave it our all in the camp, but now it's about health. Doctors are going to be with her the next three days," Spencer told the cameras.
"At the end of the day, we went back in and proved to ourselves that it wasn't just about us – it was a life-changing experience.
"We've never really lived in a jungle! I thought we were all going to be chilling at your hotel, we'd come to the jungle, we make drama, we'd do all these crazy stunts, we'd sleep on cots for a little bit, we'd go back.
"No-one told us we were really guinea pigs," he added.
Young Guns actor Lou Diamond Phillips, who went on to win the series, broke the news to the rest of the camp that Speidi were actually gone for good.
"They will not be coming back to camp. They are no longer a part of this competition," he said, relaying information he had received from producers. "They are gone."
But that wasn't the end of the family's involvement in the series, as they were replaced by Heidi's sister Holly.
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