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When the I'm a Celebrity… camp site flooded

The flooded I'm a Celebrity… camp site
  • Posted at 4:25pm
  • 13 November 2008
  • by PaulJones-RT
  • 1 comment

Leeches, snakes, rats, cockroaches, and spiders with a bite even deadlier than that of last year's runner up Janice Dickinson - they're the dangers usually associated with I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! But even deadlier can be Mother Nature herself…

The jungle of Upper Dungay in New South Wales, where the show is filmed, is "dense rainforest, set in an old volcanic crater… It's a dangerous environment," warns series editor Becca Walker. And she was proved right last January when the creek that runs through the plot burst its banks and swept away the camp site.

Of course, no celebs were harmed in the incident - they'd long gone by that time - but the German version of the show (the fabulously titled Ich bin ein Star - Holt mich hier raus!) was about to do its dry run. "There's a nearby mountain [the ominously named Mount Warning] and the water flow down it got too much," says Walker.

The camp site, situated around the communal fireplace and the area where the trails are set, "had just disappeared". "What had been a narrow little creek was suddenly a very wide river bed." The watering hole for celeb swims was full of rocks carried then dumped by the torrent of water (it also swept a bull from a farm to a river mouth 60km away - so it would have had no trouble shifting Christopher Biggins).

Of course, the I'm a Celebrity… team is prepared for anything."Even if the show had been on air," Walker stresses, "we could have evacuated everyone in minutes[…] From a weather and a health-and-safety point of view, everything's monitored 24 hours a day." And the camp is now back to normal. Sort of. The "very wide river bed" has now returned to a creek again, although, says Walker, "the creek runs a different way now, but viewers won't be able to notice any changes."

What will have changed are the Trials. "I can't tell you anything about them," she says, "but expect bigger and better, nastier and scarier!" Let's hope Mother Nature doesn't decide to do the same thing…

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  • Posted on 14 November 2008
  • at 9:57am
  • by MazY

"I can't tell you anything about them," she says, "but expect bigger and better, nastier and scarier!"

Well, that line took me by surprise. I expected her to say that the challenges are more mundane, quite sedate in fact, and possibly not even worth watching.

This "news" is clearly little more than an ad for the programme, given that the news is the camp site flooded when nobody was there and that it had no impact on the show whatsoever.

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