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I’m a Celeb to come from ruined castle in freezing North Wales

THIS year’s I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! will come from a roofless haunted castle in North Wales, ITV bosses have confirmed.

Covid restrictions have led to the show being switched from the Australian jungle to a crumbling ruin overlooking the Irish Sea.

Celebrities including Corrie legend Beverley Callard – and possibly Strictly’s AJ Pritchard, football superstar Eric Cantona and This Morning’s Eamonn Holmes – will have to endure freezing November temperatures at Gwrych Castle, Abergele.

And the weather will also cast doubt on the show’s famous shower scenes. ITV director of television Kevin Lygo told the virtual Edinburgh TV Festival yesterday: “I didn’t want a year without I’m A Celebrity and Australia was always going to be a challenge.

“When it became clear we wouldn’t make it, we began hunting the UK and found an extraordinary place in Wales, a beautiful Walt Disney castle, crumbling and tough. “Producers will have to come up with different challenges and tasks and the team are thrilled.

“Our celebs thought they were going to hot, sunny, bug-infested Australia and now they are going to freezing cold North Wales in the dark but everyone is still there and excited.”

Lygo went on to say hosts Ant and Dec were “thrilled” the series was taking place.

Last year’s show, won by actress Jacqueline Jossa, went out live at dawn Aussie time.

Lygo explained it will be different this time. “Here we’ll go live and it’ll be dark so we will have to find a way around that. It’ll be fun, it’ll be good.”

Team will have to invent new challenges.. they are thrilled

ITV BOSS KEVIN LYGO SPEAKING YESTERDAY