Christine Hamilton, who was one in every of I am a Celeb’s first ever campmates, has shared behind-the-scene secrets and techniques behind the ITV jungle present.It comes as Hamilton was within the information this week along with her husband and former Conservative MP Neil Hamilton after their kitchen was submerged in water after Storm Bert floods.Speaking to Yahoo UK about I am a Celeb, the previous campmate says: “It is probably the most stunning place to be within the rainforest. It is fantastic and it is enjoyable, all of the cooking on the campfire and goodness is aware of what. I shall be feeling twinges of envy and the enjoyable they’re having [on I’m a Celebrity], attending to know folks discovering out that — sure — they’re fairly as ghastly as you thought they had been.”From giving into movie star calls for to spraying down the camp, Hamilton laid out what occurred within the very first collection of I am a Celeb in 2002 that she “completely beloved” and appears again on with “a lot affection”.I am a Celeb threats to quitNeil Hamilton and Christine pictured in 2017. (Getty)Stars threatening to give up I am a Celeb is not a brand new factor TV bosses need to deal with, in reality it has been taking place because the very starting of the present. The When Louis Met… The Hamiltons star recalled fellow campmate Tara Palmer-Tomkinson warning she would stroll if she did not get cigarettes.She stated: “Tara was a really addictive character. She was hooked on medicine. She was hooked on alcohol. She was hooked on nicotine. She was hooked on intercourse truly. And he or she’d smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke.”Clearly once you obtained onto the helicopter to exit that was her final cigarette. Simply earlier than she obtained on the helicopter and that was it. Inside 12 hours, she was barely shaking and threatening to stroll out.”Tara Palmer-Tomkinson pictured getting back from Australia with I am a Celeb collection two stars Danniella Westbrook (left) and Anthony Worrall Thompson. (Getty)Palmer-Tomkinson got here second place in I am a Celeb and her fellow campmate Hamilton claimed the star did not stroll as a result of she obtained cigarettes. She stated. “I do not suppose any of this went out to most people. It was behind the scenes stuff. They despatched in nicotine patches which no person actually fearful about that. However then they despatched her in some cigarettes.”Palmer-Tomkinson’s request wasn’t a “diva” demand, Hamilton stated, however as an “addict”. The creator stated she hoped TV bosses had been “tighter on the foundations” now and that “nicotine addicts” should not be allowed to go Down Beneath.She defined: “It wasn’t a lot that she was demanding it as a diva, she was demanding it as an addict. That’s the distinction. If she’d simply been demanding it as a diva saying I need glowing water, they might inform her to go soar.”Learn extra: How I am a Celeb bosses cease stars quitting the showMaking demandsFrom from I am a Celeb, Nell McAndrew (proper) and Christine Hamilton reunited in London. (Getty)Naturally there was fury within the camp and Hamilton can bear in mind the fad she felt all these years in the past. In scenes that did not make it to air, she began a protest in camp. “I used to be the ring chief in fact,” she stated.”I stated, ‘Cling on a minute. This is not truthful. That is presupposed to be a stage enjoying discipline. She desires cigarettes. She’s obtained cigarettes. I need alcohol. I desire a good bottle of dry white wine.’ I feel Nell McAndrew wished chocolate.”The TV star stated the women all stood with their arms folded and demanded they had been “handled pretty”. “We gained,” she recalled. “They did not present that, in fact, as a result of they do not wish to present us getting a bottle of wine however it wasn’t truthful that Tara was being handled in a different way, so as to hold her in, and naturally, she was fantastic field workplace.”Hamilton too proved in style, making the ultimate of the collection alongside Palmer-Tomkinson and winner Tony Blackburn, coming in third place of the collection.Learn extra: I’m A Celeb 2024 line-up in fullInside actuality of the jungleI’m a Celeb’s 2024 line-up. (ITV)As a self-professed “outdoorsy individual”, Hamilton says she beloved the expertise too, particularly waking up within the rainforest and throwing herself into jungle life. When the chatter subsided in camp, she would suppose: “God that is heaven. I may truly hear the rainforest.”Behind the scenes, Hamilton claimed the I am a Celeb camp needed to be “sprayed down” earlier than the present obtained underway so everybody did not undergo with “agonising mosquito bites” within the jungle surroundings.Hamilton stated I am a Celeb is an “huge operation”.”There’s a whole bunch of crew on the market, a whole bunch and a whole bunch of individuals on the market: technicians, runners electrical, producers.I am a Celeb’s Christine Hamilton leaving the jungle. (Alamy/PA)”For us, they cleared the realm, they sprayed it to clear it of too many mosquitoes, as a result of if all people is getting agonising mosquito bites, it ceases to be a joke.”Learn extra: The place is I am a Celeb filmed? Contained in the jungle makeoverThe first collection location was in Queensland however the 2003 collection was moved to Springbrook Nationwide Park in Murwillumbah, New South Wales the place it has been filmed ever since (excluding Covid the place it was based mostly in Wales within the UK).Beforehand, when Chris Packham who hasn’t starred on the present made the allegations the camp was sprayed down, ITV denied it. On the time, ITV stated in a press release in 2022 to The Mirror: “That is categorically not true, as a manufacturing we don’t spray the jungle or citadel space with insecticide, we’ve a strict environmental plan in place.”Venomous snakes are removedIt’s not proven on cameras however TV bosses step as much as take precautions with any potential risks in camp together with toxic snakes.”They’d cleared the realm, so far as they might, of toxic snakes,” she stated. “And I am positive they nonetheless try this.” Solely final 12 months it was reported a snake was faraway from underneath Sam Thompson’s mattress in the principle camp.I am a Celeb’s 2023 winner Sam Thompson had a snake underneath his mattress. (ITV)Hamilton recalled the jaw-dropping occasion the place a python made it into camp whereas she was filming the present in 2002. She stated: “There was one superb second when the blokes got here into camp and none of us had seen, however apparently sitting underneath Uri [Geller]’s bunk for twenty-four hours had been an infinite python which we had merely hadn’t seen they usually’d been maintaining an extremely cautious eye on it as a result of it was quick asleep.”She added: “It is not a lot enjoyable if any person will get bitten by a lethal snake. It is not good telly.”Yahoo has reached out to ITV representatives for additional remark.I am a Celeb… Get Me Out of Right here airs nightly at 9pm on ITV1 and streams on ITVX.
