GAME ON
Ant and Dec reveal the FOUR I’m A Celebrity stars in the running to win immunity after huge show shake-up
Coleen needed medical attention during a trial
THE four I'm A Celebrity stars in the running to win immunity from the next TWO vote-offs have been revealed.
In a huge show shake-up tonight's elimination was cancelled in favour of gruesome challenges that dictated which four stars will battle it out to win a place in this series' Cyclone Trial.
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At the end of the show, hosts Ant and Dec revealed Coleen, Danny, Maura and Oti will fight it out for the coveted pass.
Earlier in the episode, the camp was told they would be split into two groups of four to take part in trials at the Arcade of Agony.
Two winners from each group would then go through to the final.
The first four celebrities revealed to face the Arcade of Agony were Danny Jones, GK Barry, Richard Coles and Coleen Rooney.
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Assessing her competition, GK said: “Coleen and Danny, are you joking me? The two most competitive, mentally strong people ever.”
Coleen said of the challenge: “I live in a house full of competitive boys so yeah, I’m always up for a fight!”
At the trial site, they were each allocated a grabbing machine loaded with balls to win. Every ball they won contained a number of tickets that they could deposit into the ticket collection box.
Every go on the grab machine required a coin, which they had to retrieve from a box of fish guts.
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They had ten minutes to try and win as many tickets as they could. The two celebrities with the most tickets at the end of the trial would go through to the final round and they’d be one step closer to winning the ticket to Cyclone.
The celebs were joined by plenty of critters in their grab boxes, plus each celebrity had a star for camp hidden in one of the balls, equating to one meal for camp.
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GK said: “This is hell!”
Coleen got off to a flying start as the first celebrity to retrieve a coin and play the grab machine, winning a ball and a handful of tickets. Danny wasn’t long after and picked up a star in his first ball as a meal for camp.
GK struggled to win balls from the grabber, as she said while being covered in critters: “Oh my god, they’re in my pants!”
Hoping to motivate the celebrities during the game, Ant and Dec started a sing song, crooning: “Coins and balls and tickets and stars!”
Coleen was next to find a star in one of the balls, as a struggling Richard got coached by Ant: “Your technique’s not great, you’ve really got to be over the top of the ball to grab it.”
When their time ran out, Coleen came out of her grabbing booth and said: “I’ve got one in my ear!”
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A medic took a closer look and removed it safely with a syringe. The critter crawled out as Ant said: “Oh my god! It just jumped out!”
Asking how she found the trial, GK replied: “I would like to never do that again.”
Next up to visit the Arcade of Agony was Maura Higgins, Barry McGuigan, Oti Mabuse and Alan Halsall.
Heading to the trial clearing, Alan said of the Cyclone: “We all want to get to that point, it’s like the final tick on the wishlist of I’m A Celebrity! I think we’re all excited and I think we’re all gonna go out there and do our best”
Maura, in contrast, said: “I’m not particularly excited about it, I’m very nervous and I don’t really know what to expect.”
The Love Island star screamed her way through and came up with an unusual tactic to break the balls open, squatting down and hitting the ball on the floor.
Alan was next to find a star for camp, and with time running out, Barry picked up his speed so much, he nearly slipped on his way back to the grim ball machine.
With only one minute remaining, and it being up to Maura and Oti to find the remaining two stars, Ant shouted: “This is really tense!!”
Oti managed to find her star with just seconds remaining.
When they finished the trial, it appeared Maura was impressed with her competitive performance, as she said: “F**k me, that was good! I think I broke a nail!”
Dec said of the competition between the four of them: “Very hard to call, it’s gonna be really, really close.”
They won three stars in total for camp, with Ant and Dec sharing that they would reveal the amount of tickets they got and who was through to the final in the morning.
Returning back to camp, Barry said of the Trial: “It was very competitive, it was good fun, I really enjoyed it.”
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As they reunited with the camp, they learned they had won five stars out of a possible eight.
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