I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (British TV series) series 1

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I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
Series 1
Presented by	Anthony McPartlin ; Declan Donnelly
No. of days	15
No. of castaways	8
Winner	Tony Blackburn
Runner-up	Tara Palmer-Tomkinson
Location	Tully, Queensland, Australia
Companion show	I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW!
No. of episodes	15
Release
Original network	ITV
Original release	25 August –; 8 September 2002
Series chronology
	Next →; British series 2

Last updated October 31, 2024

The first series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! was broadcast on ITV from 25 August to 8 September 2002. Ant & Dec presented the main show on ITV, whilst Louise Loughman hosted the spin-off show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW! on ITV2. The winner of this series was radio DJ Tony Blackburn.^[1]^[2]

Celebrities

The show began with eight celebrity contestants. They were:^[3]

Celebrity	Famous for	Status
Tony Blackburn	BBC Radio 1 presenter	Winner on 8 September 2002^[4]
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson	Socialite & television presenter	Runner-up on 8 September 2002
Christine Hamilton	Television personality & author	Eliminated 6th on 7 September 2002
Nell McAndrew	Glamour model	Eliminated 5th on 6 September 2002
Rhona Cameron	Comedian	Eliminated 4th on 5 September 2002
Darren Day	Actor, singer, & presenter	Eliminated 3rd on 4 September 2002
Nigel Benn	Former Middleweight boxer	Eliminated 2nd on 3 September 2002
Uri Geller	Television paranormalist	Eliminated 1st on 2 September 2002

Results and elimination

Indicates that the celebrity received the fewest votes and was eliminated immediately (no bottom two)

Indicates that the celebrity was named as being in the bottom two

Indicates that the celebrity had the highest number of votes that day

	Day 9	Day 10	Day 11	Day 12	Day 13	Day 14	Day 15 Final	Trials
Tony	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st (Day 15)	3
Tara	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd (Day 15)	2
Christine	4th	4th	5th	3rd	3rd	3rd	Eliminated (Day 14)	2
Nell	3rd	3rd	3rd	4th	4th	Eliminated (Day 13)		1
Rhona	5th	6th	4th	5th	Eliminated (Day 12)			1
Darren	7th	5th	6th	Eliminated (Day 11)				2
Nigel	6th	7th	Eliminated (Day 10)					2
Uri	8th	Eliminated (Day 9)						1

Bottom two	Darren, Uri	Nigel, Rhona	Christine, Darren	None	Christine, Nell	None
Eliminated	Uri Fewest votes to save	Nigel Fewest votes to save	Darren Fewest votes to save	Rhona Fewest votes to save	Nell Fewest votes to save	Christine Fewest votes to save	Tara Fewest votes to win
Eliminated	Uri Fewest votes to save	Nigel Fewest votes to save	Darren Fewest votes to save	Rhona Fewest votes to save	Nell Fewest votes to save	Christine Fewest votes to save	Tony Most votes to win

Bushtucker Trials

The contestants take part in daily trials to earn food

The public voted for who they wanted to face the trial

The contestants decided who did which trial

The trial was compulsory and no-one decided who took part

Trial Number	Date	Name of Trial	Celebrity participation
1	25 August 2002	Jungle Shower^[5]	Tara^[5]
2	26 August 2002	Snake Surprise^[5]	Nigel^[5]
3	30 August 2002	Buried Alive^[5]	Rhona^[5]
4	31 August 2002	Bushtucker Bonanza	Uri
5	1 September 2002	Stinking Swamp	Darren
6	2 September 2002	Hell Holes	Darren
7	2 September 2002	Night Watch	Nigel
8	4 September 2002	Pig Chase	Christine
9	4 September 2002	Sneaky Snake Run	Tony
10	5 September 2002	Bucking Bull	Nell
11	6 September 2002	Spider Web	Tony
12	7 September 2002	Underwater Treasure Hunt	Christine
13	8 September 2002	Final Trial	Tara Tony

Star count

Celebrity	Number of Stars Earned	Percentage
Christine Hamilton		90%
Darren Day		94%
Nell McAndrew		100%
Nigel Benn		81%
Rhona Cameron		75%
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson		100%
Tony Blackburn		58%
Uri Geller		100%

Ratings

All ratings are taken from the UK Programme Ratings website, BARB.^[6]

Episode	Air date	Official rating (millions)	Weekly rank for all UK TV channels
1	25 August	6.71	21
2	26 August	6.89	21
3	27 August	6.14	30
4	28 August	6.46	27
5	29 August	7.01	20
6	30 August	7.23	18
7	31 August	6.70	24
8	1 September	7.27	17
9	2 September	7.97	20
10	3 September	7.98	19
11	4 September	8.72	15
12	5 September	7.89	21
13	6 September	7.66	25
14	7 September	8.09	18
15	8 September	10.95	8
Series average	2002	7.58	—

Home Media

On 7 October 2002, a compilation of clips from the series was released on VHS^[7] and DVD^[8] by Video Collection International and Granada Media. Released as an "Unseen and Uncut" release, it contains some clips deemed to be too raunchy to be shown on TV.

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I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! returned to ITV1 and ITV2 for a ninth series on 15 November 2009. It broadcast for three weeks and concluded on 4 December 2009. There was however an additional Coming Out episode on 7 December 2009, showing all the celebrities and what they did after they left the jungle.

The second series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! was broadcast on ITV from 28 April to 12 May 2003.

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! returned for its tenth series on 14 November 2010. It ran for 3 weeks. Ant & Dec returned as the presenters for the main show, and its spin off show Get Me out of Here... Now returned, with Caroline Flack and Joe Swash as main presenters. On 4 December 2010, singer Stacey Solomon won the show.

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! returned for its eleventh series on 13 November 2011, where Ant & Dec were back as presenters. On its spin off show, Get Me Out of Here NOW!, Laura Whitmore, Russell Kane and Joe Swash were new presenters.

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! returned for its twelfth series on 11 November 2012 and finished on 1 December 2012. Ant & Dec returned as main hosts, with Laura Whitmore and Joe Swash returning as hosts of spin-off show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW!. On 16 June 2012, it was announced that Russell Kane would be leaving Get Me Out of Here! NOW!. He has been replaced by comedian Rob Beckett.

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! returned for its thirteenth series on 17 November 2013 on ITV, and ended on 8 December 2013.

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! returned for its fourteenth series on 16 November 2014 on ITV and ended on 7 December 2014.

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! returned for its fifteenth series on 15 November 2015 on ITV.

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I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! returned for its seventeenth series on 19 November 2017 on ITV. The series is the third in a three-year contract, as confirmed by Ant & Dec at the end of the Coming Out show in December 2016.

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! returned for its nineteenth series on 17 November 2019 on ITV. This series featured Anthony McPartlin's return as the show’s co-host, who was replaced by This Morning co-presenter Holly Willoughby in 2018, after deciding to take a year’s hiatus from television. He appeared again alongside Declan Donnelly. The series opening episode was watched by 13.17 million people.

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! returned for its twentieth series on 15 November 2020 on ITV. Due to the COVID-19 travel restrictions, the series was not filmed in Australia for the first time in the show's history, but was instead filmed at Gwrych Castle in Abergele, Wales.

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! returned for its twenty-second series on 6 November 2022 on ITV. The series returned to Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia, for the first time since 2019, following the easing of travel restrictions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Ant & Dec returned to present the series.

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References

↑ "I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!: former winners". The Telegraph. 17 November 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
↑ Lockett, Jon (9 September 2002). "King of the jungle Tony Blackburn triumphs". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
↑ Busk-Cowley, Mark (2014). I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!: The Inside Story. Bantam Press. p. 218. ISBN 978-0593073483.
↑ Eden, Tim Walker (16 November 2012). "Former I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! winner Tony Blackburn criticises 'cruel' Bushtucker trials". ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 26 November 2019.
1 2 3 4 5 6 "You Won't Believe How Tame The First Ever 'I'm A Celebrity' Bushtucker Trial Was". tyla.com. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
↑ "Weekly top 30 programmes | BARB".
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↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Celebrity-Get-Out-Here-DVD/dp/B00006LA00/ref=tmm_dvd_title_0?_encoding=UTF8 ^{[ bare URL ]}

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[1] "I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!: former winners". The Telegraph. 17 November 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2019.

[Lockett-2] Lockett, Jon (9 September 2002). "King of the jungle Tony Blackburn triumphs". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 November 2019.

[3] Busk-Cowley, Mark (2014). I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!: The Inside Story. Bantam Press. p. 218. ISBN 978-0593073483.

[4] Eden, Tim Walker (16 November 2012). "Former I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! winner Tony Blackburn criticises 'cruel' Bushtucker trials". ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 26 November 2019.

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[6] "Weekly top 30 programmes | BARB".

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v t e I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (UK)
Contestants
Series	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Winners	Tony Blackburn Phil Tufnell Kerry Katona Joe Pasquale Carol Thatcher Matt Willis Christopher Biggins Joe Swash Gino D'Acampo Stacey Solomon Dougie Poynter Charlie Brooks Kian Egan Carl Fogarty Vicky Pattison Scarlett Moffatt Georgia Toffolo Harry Redknapp Jacqueline Jossa Giovanna Fletcher Danny Miller Jill Scott Myleene Klass (South Africa) Sam Thompson
Related	Franchise Spin-offs Extra Camp The Daily Drop South Africa

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
Series 1


Presented by	Anthony McPartlin Declan Donnelly
No. of days	15
No. of castaways	8
Winner	Tony Blackburn
Runner-up	Tara Palmer-Tomkinson
Location	Tully, Queensland, Australia
Companion show	I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW!

No. of episodes	15
Release
Original network	ITV
Original release	25 August (2002-08-25) – 8 September 2002 (2002-09-08)
Series chronology
Next → British series 2