I’M A CELEB TO GO BACK DOWN UNDER
I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! will return to Australia this year if travel is possible, the chief of ITV has said, despite the success of the show in Wales.
Producers abandoned plans to head to Australia in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Last year’s series, which was a hit with viewers, took place at Gwrych Castle, near Abergele in North Wales, instead.
The channel’s chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall said the show, hosted by Ant and Dec, is “meant to be in Australia”.
She said the castle format, won by podcast host Giovanna Fletcher, had been a “tremendous success”.
But she said: “If we can go back to Australia – and this show is meant to be in Australia – then that’s what we’ll do.”
Plan
Speaking as ITV published its group annual results, she added: “We have a very good plan if not, as we have already done it once (in the castle).”
Ant McPartlin recently said he would be “very happy” for I’m A Celeb... to return to Wales.
He and co-host Declan Donnelly were “welcomed” there, he said, telling Digital Spy: “There were cardboard cutouts of me and Dec in the butcher’s, and the local school did a tribute.
“We’d happily go back there. We’d miss the sunshine, mind.”
Dame Carolyn also said Love Island will be returning in the summer, although the location of the show, usually filmed in a villa in Majorca, is still to be confirmed.
The programme, now hosted by Laura Whitmore, has been a huge hit for ITV2.
The summer series was cancelled last year due to COVID-19.
THE country’s favourite cooking show returned last night with celebrities set to step into the famous tent.
The celebrity special, in aid of Stand Up To Cancer, saw Hollywood’s Daisy Ridley and James McAvoy come face-to-face with Paul Hollywood as they vie to emerge as star baker.
Also taking part are pop star Jade Thirwall, presenter Stacey Dooley and Youtuber KSI.
Daisy, 28, is now an international megastar after her role as Rey in the final three Star Wars movies.
But one of her first roles was as a naked CORPSE called Hannah Kennedy in the autopsy drama Silent Witness.
We’d still like to knead those pert tits, mind!