Following on from I'm a Celebrity 2023 episode 7, where the groups merged together, Marvin told some campmates about how he proposed to his wife, Rochelle.
Meanwhile, Sam and Nella (affectionately dubbed "Salmonella"!) took on the underwater trial Fishy Business, and the camp leadership vote opened.
Here's what happened in I'm A Celebrity episode 8 last night...
Marvin's one-take proposal
'One shot’ by JLS suddenly makes more sense 😉 #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/piw2nCTzTkNovember 26, 2023
Chatting in camp with Nella and Josie, Marvin dished the details on his proposal to Rochelle: "When I was ready to settle down, and I knew Rochelle was the one, I took her to the Maldives for Christmas.
"On the day, I hired a tiny little island, small, from here to the treehouse, maybe twice the size… they dropped us off maybe 11 am and I stood next to her, saying, ‘Let’s do a picture’. Then I went down on one knee."
The whole thing was a whirlwind and Marvin added: "We got back home, and immediately started planning the wedding. We got married, we had five days together, then she went to America for six weeks to shoot a TV show in LA. Then I met her in New York, we had one night together in New York, she went back to LA, I went back to London, six weeks later she was pregnant, from that one night in New York."
Reacting to the story Nella laughed, saying: "Don’t play with big Marv. He said, ‘I’ve got one night, one night only, I’m going to make it happen tonight.’"
Sam and Ella's Fishy Business
After being chosen by the public to take on the Fishy Business Trial, Sam and Nella headed to meet Ant and Dec, and Sam was thrilled to see them and said it was "really cool" to be chosen.
He admitted: "It’s a pleasure, it’s an honour. I’ve always wanted to be stood here looking at you guys like this, so this is just really, really cool."
However, Ant said: “I’m not sure if Nella agrees…"
Nella agreed, saying: "You’re here to face your fears, it’s not really a free holiday, so, you just expect the unexpected all the time."
But Sam was raring to go, insisting: "We’re a great team. Sam and Nella… it’s catching!"
Revealing the details of their Trial, Dec explained: "This is Fishy Business. This is a question and answer Trial. As you can see under the water are seven tanks, one of them contains questions, the other six display sea creatures, which are all possible answers. Nella, you’re reading the questions, Sam you’ve got to go and find the answers."
Ant added: "Once you’re at your chosen tank, which you think is the answer, you’ve got to release the star using only your mouth. Then and only then will we tell you if the answer is correct. There are 12 questions because there are 12 stars on offer and you’ve got 12 minutes to do this Trial."
The pair raced against the clock, getting a final 10 out of 12 stars as the timer hits zero, meaning they'd secured 10 camp meals. But it had been no easy task, with Sam encountering mud crabs, toads and lobsters along the way!
Tony admits the referee once saved his life
The Campmates are fixated on Tony as he recalls being knocked out by Oleksandr Usyk 🥊 #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/yDTa6FLu5KNovember 26, 2023
Back in camp, Jamie Lynn was getting to know new campmate Tony and asked him: "What does it feel like when you knock somebody out?"
Tony said: “Do you know what, babe? It’s a relief it’s over.”
Jamie Lynn added: “You’re not happy to knock someone out, but you are kind of, because that’s your job…”
But Tony replied: “I live for the knockout.”
Jamie Lynn admitted: "It would be my worst nightmare to know I have to literally fight."
Responding to this, Tony said: "The most important part is controlling yourself emotionally. You can’t be emotionally attached to the event, you’ve got to be cold."
He added: “I don’t think anything I’ve done is really special. Anyone can do it, you’ve just got to be willing to sacrifice.”
Jamie Lynn laughed: "I’m sorry no. No, no, no. There’s a lot of things anyone can do, boxing is not one of them!"
Meanwhile, Sam asked: “What was it like fighting [Oleksandr] Usyk?"
Tony replied: "Too hard. Obviously, he’s amazing. I’ve fought stronger people, I’ve fought quicker people, but I’ve never fought someone like him who has got everything. He works you out.
"He downloads what you do. He’s downloading all the data in front of him. It takes him three rounds to do it. With me, it took him eight. And then he does it, he pulls the trigger. But I was exhausted, like. I remember everything up until round 7. I don’t remember round 8."
Sam asked: “Does he hit hard or not?”
Tony said: "No and I was up at six. He didn’t knock me clean out… I get up at six, thank god the referee didn’t let me because he’d have killed me."
Tony added in the Bush Telegraph: "The referee literally saved my life. Next shot probably puts me away for good. So, boxing at the highest level in the professional business is brutal. My priority was to make it home safe. After that it was to win at all costs.”"
Sam then compared the size of his hand to Tony’s before yelling to Marvin: "This hand is just a hand, but this hand has knocked out so many people!"
Fred then asked Sam: "Could you imagine if Tony Bellew was knocking you out?”
Nick and Frankie's milk float challenge
Nick and Frankie arrived at a milk float-themed challenge, where they were told the rules.
The rules were as follows: "In front of you are 25 milk bottles and my jungle milk float and a tank full of milk. All you have to do is get the milk from the tank into the bottles using the milk float. If you can fill all of them before the sand timer runs out then you’ll win the dingo dollars."
Frankie warned: “It looks too easy - we’re going to get a surprise somewhere along the line.”
As they began, they found that driving the float resulted in the milk pouring over onto them to which Nick said: "The initial shock when the milk came over the sides - it was freezing!"
Struggling to move the milk float, Nick laughed, saying: "I don’t think we’re ever going to make the milk run, I think we’d probably get sacked on the first day."
He jokingly added: “I’d get on a horse with Frankie, I don’t think I’m ever getting back in a motor with him.”
Once they completed it, Frankie rode off with the dingo dollars on Nick’s back. When Kiosk Kevin phoned camp, Marvin answered the phone and revealed to camp that the question was:
Which of these storylines did not happen to Nick’s character Tony in Hollyoaks:
A: He jumped off of a cliff to escape a drug lord
B: One of his children was swapped at birth
C: He opened a balloon shop, which later exploded.
Camp got the question wrong, with the answer being C. When Nick and Frankie returned they revealed they’d lost, a disappointing result!
Follow the leader...
At the end of the episode, viewers were asked to vote for who they wanted to see lead the other celebrities, where they'll be delegating the chores and getting to make use of the camp bus alongside their deputy camp leader.
The results will be announced in Monday night's show.
