Apprentice villain Katie Hopkins enters the jungle in I'm A Celebrity...

She wasted no time in getting her hands dirty, teaming up with Gemma Atkinson for a Celebrity Chest task.

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According to the show's producers, the 31-year-old has "hung up her business high heels and opted for those unflattering khakis instead".

Her arrival evens out the numbers in the two camps, with Snake Rock previously one contestant down following the last minute departure of former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren.

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Katie is the latest 'Alpha' female to join the show - her new team mates include former supermodel Janice Dickinson and PR guru Lynne Franks, as well as 5ive boyband member Jason 'J' Brown and ex-soapstar Gemma Atkinson.

The marketing professional, who has joined the Snake Rock team, should do well in the trials as she received army training at Sandhurst before going into business.

Katie famously rejected a place in the final of Sir Alan Sugar's hit BBC1 show, The Apprentice, earlier this year.

On the show, she quickly gained a reputation for making nasty comments about her rivals and also bragged of stealing three men from their wives.

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And true to form, pictures emerged in May of the mother-of-two enjoying a sex romp in a field with a married man, Mark Cross.

The couple have since announced that they will tie the knot in a low-key ceremony next year after Mark's divorce from his wife Ruth is finalised. The couple are also keen to have children.

She already has two girls, India, three, and Poppy, two, from her previous marriage to Damian McKinney - whom she had an affair with while he was her boss.

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No doubt Katie will add to the colourful antics in the jungle, with tensions already emerging between Janice and Lynne.

Janice, an exhibitionist, made a series of outrageous claims, calling Lynne a "freak" and a "shrew" and also claimed she was going to "fry up those big old boobs" for food. The pair eventually pair made up.

Janice put herself forward for the first Bushtucker Trial, which she failed dismally.

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She was up against ex-Eastenders star Marc Bannerman to win a meal for her team.

The pair of them were attached to cog wheels which were lowered onto carriages full of unpleasant critters on a mini-railway line as they tried to collect stars.

She immediately screamed I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! when faced with a carriage full of eels - yelling "No, not with eels, no" in the first container.

When the second carriage filled with pungent fish guts came along, she was beaten by Bannerman who collected five stars to her four.

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Nearly 10 million viewers tuned in to the launch of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! last night.

The audience peaked at 9.8 million and averaged 8.7 million.

Both figures were 200,000 down on last year's opener.

The ITV1 reality show hosted by Ant and Dec trounced its nearest rival, Stephen Poliakoff's BBC2 drama Capturing Mary, which drew three million viewers.

The ratings helped ITV1 to its best Monday performance in a year.

ITV2 spin-off I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here Now!, presented by Matt Willis and Emma Griffiths, pulled in 703,000 viewers.