I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

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I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
Created by Granada and LWT
Original work I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (United Kingdom)
Owner ITV Studios
Years2002–present
Films and television
Television seriesI'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (independent international versions, see below)
Miscellaneous
Genre Reality television
First aired25 August 2002;21 years ago (2002-08-25)
Distributor ITV Studios

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! is a reality television format in which a number of celebrities live together in a jungle environment for a number of weeks, competing to be crowned "King" or "Queen of the Jungle". The show was originally created in the United Kingdom by Granada Television and produced by its subsidiary, ITV's then London franchise London Weekend Television (LWT) and developed by a team including James Allen, Natalka Znak, Brent Baker and Stewart Morris. The first episode aired on 25 August 2002 hosted by Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, also known as Ant and Dec. It is now produced by ITV Studios and has been licensed globally to countries including the United States, Germany, France, Hungary, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, Romania, Russia, Australia and India. [1]

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Filming location

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King Ranch (2002)
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Dungay (2003–2019,
2022–)
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Camp locations in Australia
On location in the Dungay Creek 'Jungle', Dungay in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia (April 2004) Imacelebritygetmeottahere004.jpg
On location in the Dungay Creek 'Jungle', Dungay in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia (April 2004)

The UK, German and the 2003 US versions of the series take place in New South Wales, Australia, at a permanently-built up camp and filming studios on a disused banana plantation facility called Dungay Creek in Dungay near Murwillumbah. [2] However the first UK series of the show (aired in 2002) was filmed on a smaller site close to King Ranch (officially El Rancho del Rey) in Kooroomool, [3] near Tully, Queensland, in Australia. [4]

The leaseholder of the privately owned Dungay site is the British production company ITV Studios, formerly Granada Television, which extensively redesigned and built on the previously open site and equipped it with camera and sound technology for TV broadcasting. About 600 mostly Australian crew members, including 136 from the UK, are involved in the yearly production and in excess of 100 cameras are used. [5] Inside the entrance to the filming location is an open area allocated to buildings which accommodate on-site medical facilities, containers for the storage of props, and other backstage facilities. Families and friends of the celebrities are housed here each morning during evictions. A restricted access road ascends to the location of the studios from this area. The four-wheel drive access to the show's set then descends into a valley.

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Gwrych Castle
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Castle location in Wales

In August 2020, it was confirmed that due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related travel restrictions, the 20th UK series would be filmed in Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales. [6] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 15th season of the German version, was originally planned for 2021 to take place for the first time in the history of the show not in Australia, but in North Wales, at Gwrych Castle. [7] On 22 October 2020, it was announced that production in Wales was cancelled and that broadcaster RTL was working on a new concept. [8] On 2 August 2021, it was announced that, due to Australia's border remaining closed amid COVID-19 restrictions in the country, filming for the UK version would again be taking place at Gwrych Castle in Abergele, Wales. As part of the agreement with Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust, ITV announced it would continue to help support the ongoing restoration project of the site. [9]

The Australian series is usually filmed in Blyde River Canyon near Hoedspruit and Kruger National Park, in South Africa. [10] The seventh season however was pre-recorded in Australia during late 2020 at the site used by the British and German versions since 2003. On 18 October 2021, it was announced by RTL that the German version would now be filmed at the same location in South Africa instead of its usual home in Australia, taking the filming slot previously occupied by the Australian version. [11] In September 2022, it was confirmed that ITV would pre-record a special "All-Stars" series in South Africa, featuring former campmates and scheduled to air in 2023. [12]

Other versions of the show have been filmed in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Suriname, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Criticism

This series has been criticised by Tessa Jowell, at the time the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. In an interview with the Financial Times during the second UK series, she said, "If they weren't mostly – save their blushes – has-been celebrities, there might be more interest ... I think that if we saw many more programming hours taken over by reality TV, I hope you'd begin to see a viewers' revolt." [13]

In 2002, CBS, broadcaster of the popular American reality show Survivor , unsuccessfully sued ABC and Granada TV over a planned American version of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, alleging similarities. [14]

The show's use of live insects and other living creatures in the bushtucker trials has led to some public criticism of the show and its producers and those involved in the programming. This issue was highlighted during the 2009 UK series, where celebrity chef Gino D'Acampo killed, cooked and ate a rat. The RSPCA Australia investigated the incident and sought to prosecute D'Acampo and actor Stuart Manning for animal cruelty after this episode of the show was aired. ITV was fined but the two celebrities involved were not prosecuted for animal cruelty despite being charged with the offence by the New South Wales Police. This incident did, however, highlight among certain groups such as Buglife, a British charity for the conservation of insects, and the RSPCA, the controversy surrounding the killing of living creatures for human entertainment.

There has been criticism that the producers present the celebrities as living in a "dangerous" jungle, despite the fact that they are actually kept in a controlled environment, with some of the scenery being artificial, e.g. a pond and a small waterfall. [15]

In November 2014, TV presenter Chris Packham wrote an open letter to Ant & Dec asking them and ITV to end the "abuse of animals" in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. He described the trials as "out of date" and "silly". [16] Packham again requested that the programme end its perceived animal abuse on stage during the 2019 TV Choice Awards, whilst imploring celebrities and those in the television industry to be more conscious of the environment. [17]

In January 2021, the Australian version of the reality show received criticism for its "sick', "traumatic" and "unnecessary" content when a contestant was bitten by a snake in an episode. [18]

In November 2022, the British installment was criticized for its casting of Matt Hancock as a contestant, the serving Member of Parliament for West Suffolk who had been disgraced for his breaching of COVID-19 guidelines as Health Secretary. ITV reportedly paid Hancock £400,000 to participate. [19] [20] [21] In November 2023, the British show was criticised again by some for its casting of Nigel Farage as a contestant. As a chief campaigner for Brexit, and a right wing figure many felt that his appearance was inappropriate. ITV reportedly paid Farage 1.5 million pounds for his appearance. The presenters, Ant and Dec later asked ITV to stop booking politicians.[ citation needed ]

International versions

Status legend
StatusMeaning
CurrentFranchise with a currently airing season
AwaitingFranchise awaiting confirmation
UpcomingFranchise with an upcoming season
EndedFranchise no longer in production
UnknownStatus unknown
OriginalOriginal version (in title column)
Versions of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! by country
CountryLocal titleFirst episodeStatusFilming locationNetworkWinnersPresenters
Australia I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! [22] February 1, 2015Unknown
 Network Ten
Canada (Quebec) Sortez-moi d'ici  [ fr ]February 19, 2023Current
 TVA
DenmarkJeg er en celebrity - få mig væk herfra! [30] March 15, 2015Ended Kruger National Park, South Africa TV3
FinlandOlen Julkkis... Päästäkää Minut Pois!January 21, 2022Ended Argentina, South America [32] MTV3 Season 1, 2022: Kyösti Mäkimattila  [ fi ] [33]
France Je suis une célébrité, sortez-moi de là ! April 14, 2006Ended
 TF1
Germany Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus! January 9, 2004Current
 RTL
GreeceI'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! [34] October 11, 2023Ended
 Skai TV [35]
  • Season 1, 2023: Tasos Xiarcho [36]
Hungary Celeb vagyok, ments ki innen! October 6, 2008Ended
 RTL Klub
  • Season 1, October 2008: Mariann Falusi
  • Season 2, Oct–Nov 2008: Andrea Keleti
  • Season 3, October 2014: Zsolt Erdei
  • Season 4, Oct–Nov 2014: Andrea Molnár
  • Season 5, 2017: Péter Kabát
  • Season 6, 2022: Curtis
India Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao July 13, 2009Ended Taman Negara, Malaysia Sony
MexicoSoy famoso ¡sácame de aquí!May 4, 2022Ended Dominican Republic Azteca Uno
NetherlandsIk Ben Een Ster, Haal Me Hier Uit! [39] April 20, 2014Ended Suriname RTL 5
  • Season 1, 2014: Mathijs Vrieze
Romania Sunt celebru, scoate-mă de aici! [41] February 16, 2015Ended Kruger National Park, South Africa (2015)
La Romana, Dominican Republic (2022) [42] 		Pro TV
Russia Звёзды в Африке [45] September 19, 2021Ended [lower-alpha 1] Kruger National Park, South Africa TNT
  • Season 1, Fall 2021: Vyacheslav Malafeev
  • Season 2, Spring 2022: Oleg Vereshchagin
  • Season 3, Fall 2022: Anton Filipenko
 Mikhail Galustyan
Olga Buzova
Новые звёзды в Африке
(Not a licensed version)		March 12, 2023
  • Season 1, Spring 2023: Alexander "ST" Stepanov
  • Season 2, Fall 2023: Evgenia Iskandarova
Sweden Kändisdjungeln September 11, 2009Ended Taman Negara, Malaysia TV4
United Kingdom I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
Original		August 25, 2002Upcoming
 ITV
United States I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! February 19, 2003Awaiting
  • Dungay, New South Wales, Australia (2003)
  • Costa Rica (2009)
  • TBA

Notes

  1. ↑ In 2023, the show aired without ITV Studios' involvement in the production and thus changed its name to Новые Звёзды в Африке.

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