Why I’m A Celebrity stars no longer have phone numbers on back of T-shirts

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! viewers person spotted a immense alteration erstwhile it comes to the 2024 campmate’s outfits, calling it the ‘end of an era’.

As is modular practice, erstwhile the celebrities caput into the jungle to look Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly’s grim bushtucker trials, they permission down their idiosyncratic possessions and mundane clothing, alternatively having to deterioration a basal azygous consisting of bluish T-shirts and reddish trousers.

But this year, there’s a alteration to the tops, which usually person voting numbers written connected the backmost alongside the campmate’s name.

Strictly Come Dancing’s Oti Mabuse, McFly’s Danny Jones, Tulisa Contostavlos, and Alan Halsall joined Coleen Rooney and Dean McCullough successful the jungle during past night’s motorboat show.

Jane Moore, Melvin Odoom, Barry McGuigan, and GK Barry are besides portion of this year’s line-up with 2 much rumoured stars acceptable to beryllium joining.

Watching the play kick-off connected Sunday night, immoderate fans took to X to stock their astonishment that the voting numbers had seemingly disappeared from the the stars’ backs, with conscionable their afloat sanction written instead.

‘All of the t-shirts having afloat authorities names connected the backmost alternatively than their archetypal names and a telephone fig is sending me,’ @st_ua_rt wrote.

‘Where the numbers,’ @paradeboy added, arsenic @BrattyBarbi wrote: ‘No telephone numbers connected the backmost of their T-Shirts…. End of an Era.’

They besides commented: ‘ITV wholly phasing retired telephone voting is simply a disgrace… the telephone numbers connected the backmost of the celebrities t-shirts was 1 of the past British traditions we had.’

‘So 2024 is the twelvemonth they’ve yet got escaped of telephone voting… who’s gonna outcry telephone the SHORT NUMBER now,’ @marcjohnson27 added.

It turns retired there’s a beauteous elemental mentation down it all, arsenic alternatively of voting via telephone call, votes are being counted connected the app now.

An insider told MailOnline: ‘Over the years the fig of radical voting by telephone has declined and it’s go a precise tiny proportionality of votes cast.’

They added: ‘To simplify the connection to our viewers, we person chosen to lone person escaped online voting this twelvemonth via the app.’

Last night’s votes saw GK Barry, existent sanction Grace Keeling, revealed arsenic the adjacent personage to instrumentality connected tonight’s bushtucker trial.

And after her squealing and screaming yesterday, we tin lone ideate what’s successful store.

As good arsenic their bluish T-shirts and khaki shirts with reddish shorts oregon trousers, the celebrities successful the jungle besides person to deterioration azygous socks – and there’s a crushed down it.

The socks are each agleam red, and are picked to disguise immoderate accidental humor seeping through.

The show’s erstwhile on-site medic, Bob McCarron, antecedently shared that arsenic campmates are apt to beryllium bitten by galore varieties of creepy crawlies, specified arsenic leeches, it saves viewers from having to screen their eyes if they person an aversion to blood.

I’m A Celebrity continues contiguous astatine 9pm connected ITV1.

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