I'm a Celebrity 2024 launch show viewing figures revealed

These figures lucifer past year’s debut but autumn abbreviated of the 9 cardinal highest recorded successful 2022.

However, this marks ITV's highest overnight assemblage of the twelvemonth for a non-sporting event.

The premiere featured contestants tackling a assortment of grueling challenges, including cockroach-filled races, capsized canoes, and fish-eye cocktail blending. Tulisa Contostavlos and Coronation Street’s Alan Halsall claimed triumph successful a competitory showdown.

Viewers rapidly highlighted BBC Radio 1 presenter Dean McCullough arsenic a standout, praising his "hilarious" quip astir Coleen Rooney’s infamous "Wagatha Christie" proceedings during their archetypal encounter.

In the series' archetypal nationalist vote, GK Barry was chosen to look the adjacent Bushtucker Trial, ominously titled Vile Volcano.

Among this year’s contestants are erstwhile Strictly Come Dancing pro Oti Mabuse, McFly vocalist Danny Jones, boxer Barry McGuigan, Loose Women prima Jane Moore and broadcaster Melvin Odom.

There was an added astonishment successful store viewers during Sunday night’s premiere erstwhile Comedian Peter Kay made an quality to beforehand his record-breaking circuit during an adbreak.

During the archetypal commercialized interruption of the ITV show, viewers were treated to a comic advertisement featuring Kay.

In the advert, the 51-year-old comedian, famed for Phoenix Nights and Car Share, was seen carrying a aureate toilet into his mother's bungalow, a motion to his palmy 2002 Mum Wants A Bungalow tour.

As Kay entered the house, present adorned with a mural of Queen’s Freddie Mercury connected the store door, an onlooker asked: “Are you doing immoderate much shows?”

To which helium responded with humour, shouting: “I person nary prime – she wants it each now.” A graphic past flashes connected screen, revealing that Kay is extending his Better Late Than Never tour, which primitively kicked disconnected successful 2022, with 21 caller dates.

The further performances volition statesman successful February 2025 and tally until February 2026, including his first-ever shows astatine Aberdeen’s P&J Live, Brighton Centre, Bournemouth International Centre, and Isle of Man Villa Marina.

Kay has already acceptable aggregate records connected his tour, including selling retired 45 dates astatine London’s O2 Arena and reaching 100 performances astatine Manchester’s AO Arena.

In a statement, the comedian said: “It’s been fantastic doing what I emotion most, stand-up comedy. Laughter is much important than ever successful these challenging times and with the outgo of surviving inactive astatine an all-time high, summons prices for the caller dates volition commencement from £35.”

Tickets are acceptable to spell connected merchantability connected Saturday, 23 November astatine 10am.

I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! airs connected ITV1 and ITVX airs each nighttime astatine 9pm.