ITV I'm A Celebrity's Alan Halsall savage swipe at Ant and Dec has viewers cringing

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! returned to ITV connected Sunday nighttime with a caller enactment up of celebrities hoping to beryllium crowned King oregon Queen of the jungle

Coronation Street prima Alan Halsall took a lighthearted jab astatine I'm a Celebrity hosts Ant and Dec during the show's archetypal episode.

The fashionable programme, which features celebrities tackling demanding Bushtucker Trials successful the Australian jungle, has returned with Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly arsenic hosts.

This year's contestants purpose to instrumentality the jungle crown from 2023 victor Sam Thompson. Just minutes into the archetypal episode, Tulisa, Oti Mabuse, Jane Moore, Danny Jones, and Dean McCullough participated successful a stomach-churning portion task earlier skydiving from a helicopter.

After landing, they met their chap campmates: GK Barry, Coleen Rooney, Melvin Odoom, Alan Halsall, and Jane Moore. Half of the celebrities made their entranceway by skydiving onto the formation to conscionable the remaining formed members earlier racing to the campsite.

Before being selected by Tulisa and winning the archetypal challenge, Alan made a cheeky remark astir Ant and Dec's height. "I mean they are lone tiny they could beryllium about," helium joked, to which Melvin replied: "They're astir my tallness to beryllium fair".

In a astonishing twist, Alan revealed his biggest fearfulness successful the jungle isn't creepy crawlies oregon heights - it's bacon and fish. Tensions whitethorn beryllium simmering beneath the aboveground successful the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! camp, arsenic a feud appears to beryllium connected the skyline betwixt 25 twelvemonth aged societal media influencer GK Barry and broadcaster Dean McCullough, 32.

In a candid chat with MailOnline, Dean positioned himself arsenic a "glass fractional afloat benignant of guy" who has small patience for those who conscionable privation to "put their feet up".

Contrastingly, GK embraced her "glass fractional bare benignant of girl" persona, viewing her clip connected the amusement arsenic a accidental to "relax successful a hammock for a mates of weeks", adjacent acknowledging, "I won't bring overmuch to the camp, oregon cleanable much."

Dean didn't mince words erstwhile helium cautioned the different contestants, remarking, "There could beryllium a fewer radical connected that lineup who think, 'I'm conscionable going to beryllium this 1 out, I'm not going to bash the washing up' but yes they are."

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