Ant & Dec undertake Bushtucker Trial for charity

Ant & Dec undertake Bushtucker Trial for charity
Ant & Dec undertake Bushtucker Trial for charity (Image credit: JOHN WRIGHT)

TV favourites Ant and Dec are to be seen tackling a Bushtucker Trial, almost a decade after they launched I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! The duo have braved the 'celebrity cyclone' in an effort to raise £100,000 for ITV1's charity show Text Santa, to be screened on Christmas Eve. Despite ribbing contestants repeatedly since the hit series launched in 2002, the tables have not been turned on the pair until now. They filmed the challenge before heading home from Australia, where they had been filming the most recent series, earlier this month. However, they did not have to face creepy crawlies or munch their way through stomach-churning offcuts. Instead they had to make their way up a slippery slide, touching a giant star down on four markers, each worth £25,000. They were blasted with water, wind, plastic balls and high-powered foam to hinder their progress. "It was so much harder than we had expected it to be," said Ant. Dec added: "We were exhausted at the end of it. We really enjoyed it though and the crew certainly took delight in seeing us suffer." Ant and Dec will be hosting the edition of Text Santa with Holly Willoughby on Saturday at 7.30pm.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.