I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! fans were all left disappointed by Thursday night’s episode.
Radio 1 presenter Dean McCullough was voted to take on his third trial in three days after becoming the first campmate of the series to yell “I’m a celebrity get me out of here” at the start of the week.
McCullough, 32, failed to secure any stars for camp in his second trial the following day and promised he would find “redemption” for his poor performance on Thursday.
The presenter took on the Lethal Lab where he was shut into seven different “containment areas” alongside cockroaches, crickets and mealworms, giant lizards, snakes and spiders.
McCullough easily secured four stars for camp before once again shouting “I’m a celebrity get me out of here” when fish guts poured over him in the fifth containment.
Although McCullough said he was happy to take four stars back to camp viewers were less impressed with the presenter’s performance and the trial as a whole.
“Please most boring and easiest trial ever seen on the show just hand him the 10 stars,” one person wrote on X/Twitter.
“Have these been simplified for Dean because he’s so s***?” another viewer questioned.
“I’m a celebrity (Juniors edition) for Dean,” a third social media user joked.
It comes shortly after Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly admitted they felt deflated when McCullough quit his first trial.
Donnelly explained: “We are genuinely disappointed because you are prepared to do the whole trial and you want to see the whole thing.
“There’s a lot of time gone into the trials so when it’s called early your like, ‘oh,’” he said.
“That’s why we continued to ask him some questions after because we were really enjoying it.” McPartlin added.
When asked if the crew become frustrated when a celebrity quits a trial early, the Geordie presenters emphasised the effort the I’m a Celeb staff go to for each trial.
“They just want to see it done properly,” McPartlin said. “Even in the past when we’ve had people not go through with it we’ve sometime bought the trials back because we want them to be seen.”
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