# I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! is a reality television format in which a number of celebrities live together in a jungle environment for a number of weeks, competing to be crowned "King-" or "Queen of the Jungle".
The show was originally created in the United Kingdom by Granada Television and produced by its subsidiary, ITV's then London franchise London Weekend Television (LWT) and developed by a team including James Allen, Natalka Znak, Brent Baker and Stewart Morris. The first episode was aired on 25 August 2002, hosted by Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, better known as Ant and Dec.
It is now produced by ITV Studios and has been licensed globally to countries including the United States, Germany, France, Hungary, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, Romania, Russia, Australia and India.

## Filming location

The UK, German and the 2003 US versions of the series take place in New South Wales, Australia, at a permanently-built up camp and filming studios on a disused banana plantation facility called Dungay Creek in Dungay near Murwillumbah. However, the first UK series of the show (aired in 2002) was filmed on a smaller site close to King Ranch (officially El Rancho del Rey) in Cardstone, with a temporary studio built on the banks of Kooroomool Creek, near Tully, Queensland, in Australia. For the fifth British series in 2005, there were reportedly plans to relocate the show to the coastal town of Cardwell (also in Queensland); however these were subsequently dropped due to logistical problems and time constraints in building the new set and required infrastructure.
The leaseholder of the privately owned Dungay site is the British production company ITV Studios, formerly Granada Television, which extensively redesigned and built on the previously open site and equipped it with camera and sound technology for TV broadcasting. About 600 mostly Australian crew members, including 136 from the UK, are involved in the yearly production and in excess of 100 cameras are used. Inside the entrance to the filming location is an open area allocated to buildings which accommodate on-site medical facilities, containers for the storage of props, and other backstage facilities. Families and friends of the celebrities are housed here each morning during evictions. A restricted access road ascends to the location of the studios from this area. The four-wheel drive access to the show's set then descends into a valley.
In August 2020, it was confirmed that due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related travel restrictions, the 20th UK series would be filmed in Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 15th season of the German version was originally planned for 2021 to take place for the first time in the history of the show not in Australia, but in North Wales, at Gwrych Castle. However, on 22 October 2020, it was announced that production in Wales had been cancelled and that broadcaster RTL was working on a new concept. On 2 August 2021, it was announced that, due to Australia's border remaining closed amid COVID-19 restrictions in the country, filming for the UK version would again be taking place at Gwrych Castle in Abergele, Wales. As part of the agreement with Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust, ITV announced it would continue to help support the ongoing restoration project of the site.
The Australian series is usually filmed in Blyde River Canyon near Hoedspruit and Kruger National Park, in South Africa. The seventh season, however, was pre-recorded in Australia during late 2020 at the site used by the British and German versions since 2003. On 18 October 2021, it was announced by RTL that the German version would now be filmed at the same location in South Africa instead of its usual home in Australia, taking the filming slot previously occupied by the Australian version. In September 2022, it was confirmed that ITV would pre-record a special "All-Stars" series in South Africa, featuring former campmates and scheduled to air in 2023.
Other versions of the show have been filmed in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Suriname, Indonesia and Malaysia.

## Criticism

This series has been criticised by Tessa Jowell, at the time the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. In an interview with the Financial Times during the second UK series, she said, "If they weren't mostly – save their blushes – has-been celebrities, there might be more interest ... I think that if we saw many more programming hours taken over by reality TV, I hope you'd begin to see a viewers' revolt."
In 2002, CBS, broadcaster of the popular American reality show Survivor, unsuccessfully sued ABC and Granada Television over a planned American version of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, alleging similarities. The production company behind Survivor also attempted to take legal action, but this was later dropped.
The show's use of live insects and other living creatures in the bushtucker trials has led to some public criticism of the show and its producers and those involved in the programming. This issue was highlighted during the 2009 UK series, where celebrity chef Gino D'Acampo killed, cooked and ate a rat. The RSPCA Australia investigated the incident and sought to prosecute D'Acampo and actor Stuart Manning for animal cruelty after this episode of the show was aired. ITV was fined but the two celebrities involved were not prosecuted for animal cruelty despite being charged with the offence by the New South Wales Police. This incident did, however, highlight among certain groups such as Buglife, a British charity for the conservation of insects, and the RSPCA, the controversy surrounding the killing of living creatures for human entertainment.
There has been criticism that the producers present the celebrities as living in a "dangerous" jungle, despite the fact that they are actually kept in a controlled environment, with some of the scenery being artificial, e.g. a pond and a small waterfall.
In November 2014, TV presenter Chris Packham wrote an open letter to Ant & Dec, asking them and ITV to end the "abuse of animals" in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. He described the trials as "out of date" and "silly". Packham again requested that the programme end its perceived animal abuse on stage during the 2019 TV Choice Awards, whilst imploring celebrities and those in the television industry to be more conscious of the environment.
In January 2021, the Australian version of the reality show received criticism for its "sick", "traumatic" and "unnecessary" content when a contestant was bitten by a snake in an episode.
In November 2022, the British instalment was criticized for its casting of Matt Hancock as a contestant, the serving Member of Parliament for West Suffolk who had been disgraced for his breaching of COVID-19 guidelines as Health Secretary. ITV reportedly paid Hancock £400,000 to participate.

## International versions

Status legend :
| Status | Meaning |
| Current | Franchise with a currently airing season |
| Awaiting | Franchise awaiting confirmation |
| Upcoming | Franchise with an upcoming season |
| Ended | Franchise no longer in production |
| Unknown | Status unknown |
| Original | Original version (in title column) |
Versions of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! by country :
| Country | Local title | First episode | Status | Filming location | Network | Winners | Presenters |
| Australia | I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! | February 1, 2015 | Current | Kruger National Park, South Africa (2015–2020, 2023–) Dungay, New South Wales, Australia (2021–2022) | Network Ten | Season 1, 2015: Freddie Flintoff Season 2, 2016: Brendan Fevola Season 3, 2017: Casey Donovan Season 4, 2018: Fiona O'Loughlin Season 5, 2019: Richard Reid Season 6, 2020: Miguel Maestre Season 7, 2021: Abbie Chatfield Season 8, 2022: Dylan Lewis Season 9, 2023: Liz Ellis Season 10, 2024: Skye Wheatley Season 11, 2025: Current season | Julia Morris Chris Brown (2015–2023) Robert Irwin (2024–) |
| Canada (Quebec) | Sortez-moi d'ici | February 19, 2023 | Upcoming | Costa Rica (2023) Panama (2024) | TVA | Season 1, 2023: Andréanne A. Malette [fr] Season 2, 2024: Clodine Desrochers Season 3, 2025: Upcoming season | Alexandre Barrette (2023–2024) Jean-Philippe Dion [fr] (2023–2024) Rosalie Vaillancourt [fr] (2025) Guy Jodoin (2025) |
| Denmark | Jeg er en celebrity - få mig væk herfra! | March 15, 2015 | Ended | Kruger National Park, South Africa | TV3 | Season 1, 2015: Gustav Salinas [da] | Jakob Kjeldbjerg Lasse Rimmer |
| Finland | Olen Julkkis... Päästäkää Minut Pois! | January 21, 2022 | Ended | Argentina, South America | MTV3 | Season 1, 2022: Kyösti Mäkimattila [fi] | Janne Kataja Aku Hirviniemi |
| France | Je suis une célébrité, sortez-moi de là ! | April 14, 2006 | Ended | Teresópolis, Brazil (2006) Kruger National Park, South Africa (2019) | TF1 | Season 1, 2006: Richard Virenque Season 2, 2019: Gerard Vives | Christophe Dechavanne Jean-Pierre Foucault (2006) Laurence Boccolini (2019) |
| Germany | Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus! | January 9, 2004 | Awaiting | Dungay, New South Wales, Australia (2004, 2008–2009, 2011–2020, 2023–) Kruger National Park, South Africa (2022) | RTL | Season 1, Early 2004: Costa Cordalis Season 2, Late 2004: Désirée Nick Season 3, 2008: Ross Antony Season 4, 2009: Ingrid van Bergen Season 5, 2011: Peer Kusmagk Season 6, 2012: Brigitte Nielsen Season 7, 2013: Joey Heindle Season 8, 2014: Melanie Müller Season 9, 2015: Maren Gilzer [de] Season 10, 2016: Menderes Bağcı [de] Season 11, 2017: Marc Terenzi Season 12, 2018: Jenny Frankhauser [de] Season 13, 2019: Evelyn Burdecki [de] Season 14, 2020: Prince Damien Ritzinger Season 15, 2022: Filip Pavlović [de] Season 16, 2023: Djamila Rowe [de] Season 17, 2024: Lucy Diakovska Season 18, 2025: Lilly Becker | Sonja Zietlow Dirk Bach (2004–2012) Daniel Hartwich (2013–2022) Jan Köppen [de] (2023–) |
| Greece | I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! | October 11, 2023 | Ended | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | Skai TV | Season 1, 2023: Tasos Xiarcho | Giorgos Lianos Kalomira |
| Hungary | Celeb vagyok, ments ki innen! | October 6, 2008 | Ended | Aristóbulo del Valle, Argentina (2008) Kruger National Park, South Africa (2014, 2017) Colombia (2022) | RTL Klub | Season 1, October 2008: Mariann Falusi Season 2, Oct–Nov 2008: Andrea Keleti Season 3, October 2014: Zsolt Erdei Season 4, Oct–Nov 2014: Andrea Molnár Season 5, 2017: Péter Kabát Season 6, 2022: Curtis | Balázs Sebestyén (2008, 2014, 2022) János Vadon (2008, 2014, 2022) Ramóna Kiss (2017) Peti Puskás (2017) |
| India | Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao | July 13, 2009 | Ended | Taman Negara, Malaysia | Sony | Season 1, 2009: Mona Wasu | Mini Mathur Yudhishthir Urs |
| Mexico | Soy famoso ¡sácame de aquí! | May 4, 2022 | Ended | Dominican Republic | Azteca Uno | Season 1, 2022: Alfredo Adame | Horacio Villalobos Atala Sarmiento [es] |
| Netherlands | Ik Ben Een Ster, Haal Me Hier Uit! | April 20, 2014 | Ended | Suriname | RTL 5 | Season 1, 2014: Mathijs Vrieze | Jan Kooijman [nl] Nicolette Kluijver |
| Romania | Sunt celebru, scoate-mă de aici! | February 16, 2015 | Ended | Kruger National Park, South Africa (2015) La Romana, Dominican Republic (2022) | Pro TV | Season 1, 2015: Cătălin Moroșanu Season 2, 2022: Anisia Gafton | Cabral Ibacka Mihai Bobonete (2015) Adela Popescu (2022) |
| Russia | Звёзды в Африке (1-4) Звёзды в джунглях (5-) | September 19, 2021 | Unknown | Kruger National Park, South Africa (1-4) Tayrona National Park, Colombia (5-) | TNT | Season 1, 2021: Vyacheslav Malafeev Season 2, 2022: Oleg Vereshchagin Season 3, Spring 2023: Alexander "ST" Stepanov [ru] Season 4, Fall 2023: Evgenia Iskandarova Season 5, 2024: Igor Chekhov | Mikhail Galustyan Olga Buzova |
| Sweden | Kändisdjungeln | September 11, 2009 | Ended | Taman Negara, Malaysia | TV4 | Season 1, 2009: Karl Petter Bergvall [sv] | David Hellenius Tilde de Paula |
| United Kingdom | I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Original | August 25, 2002 | Upcoming | Tully, Queensland, Australia (2002) Dungay, New South Wales, Australia (2003–2019, 2022–present) Gwrych Castle, Abergele, Wales, United Kingdom (2020–2021) Kruger National Park, South Africa (All Stars, 2023) | ITV | Series 1, 2002: Tony Blackburn Series 2, 2003: Phil Tufnell Series 3, Early 2004: Kerry Katona Series 4, Late 2004: Joe Pasquale Series 5, 2005: Carol Thatcher Series 6, 2006: Matt Willis Series 7, 2007: Christopher Biggins Series 8, 2008: Joe Swash Series 9, 2009: Gino D'Acampo Series 10, 2010: Stacey Solomon Series 11, 2011: Dougie Poynter Series 12, 2012: Charlie Brooks Series 13, 2013: Kian Egan Series 14, 2014: Carl "Foggy" Fogarty Series 15, 2015: Vicky Pattison Series 16, 2016: Scarlett Moffatt Series 17, 2017: Georgia "Toff" Toffolo Series 18, 2018: Harry Redknapp Series 19, 2019: Jacqueline Jossa Series 20, 2020: Giovanna Fletcher Series 21, 2021: Danny Miller Series 22, 2022: Jill Scott All Stars, 2023: Myleene Klass Series 23, 2023: Sam Thompson Series 24, 2024: Danny Jones | Declan Donnelly Anthony McPartlin (2002–2017, 2019–) Holly Willoughby (2018) |
| United States | I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! | February 19, 2003 | Ended | Dungay, New South Wales, Australia (2003) Costa Rica (2009) | ABC (2003) NBC (2009) | Season 1, 2003: Cris Judd Season 2, 2009: Lou Diamond Phillips | John Lehr (2003) Damien Fahey (2009) Myleene Klass (2009) |