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I'm A Celebrity stars set up camp in the jungle

Updated 12:06pm on 16 Nov 2009


I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! may be the call from the Australian rainforest after the latest bunch of famous names set up camp.

Foxy: Sam Fox is ready for jungle challenges

The 11 stars found out who they would be living with when they enjoyed fruit cocktails and canapes on a luxury yacht - but they were soon facing their first dilemma.

Gallery: I'm A Celebrity stars

The group was asked to choose one man and one woman to jump into the sea and swim to a nearby island where they would spend the night and face the first challenge.

Undecided, they drew straws and the losers were former topless model Sam Fox and chef Gino D'Acampo, who jumped into the water while the other celebrities headed back to their hotels for one last night of luxury.

Meanwhile, Fox and D'Acampo spent the night on camp beds, although Fox, who enjoyed a short pop career, entertained the television chef with a performance of her hit Touch Me (I Want Your Body).

The next morning the pair tested their nerve against crabs, an octopus, water spiders and eels to win food and beds for the celebrity camp.

The nine remaining celebrities found themselves split into teams as they made their way to the camp which will be their home for the next three weeks.

Snooker player Jimmy White, dancer Camilla Dallerup, former Hollyoaks actor Stuart Manning and interior designer Justin Ryan were given horses and told to get trekking.

Dallerup, who has been frightened of horses since she fell while riding at the age of five, said: "If you'd asked me last week if I would get on a horse, I would have said 'absolutely no way'."

Novice rider White struggled to command his horse, but told the others: "The horse I was on was just taking his time."

Ryan's TV partner Colin McAllister, actress Lucy Benjamin and former Mis-teeq singer Sabrina Washington were taken up in a plane but were then told they had to jump out at 12,000ft.

While Benjamin and Washington panicked, McAllister joked: "This is better than Botox."

He tidied his hair before saying he was jumping "for Scotland" and leaping out of the door, prompting Benjamin to scream.

The former EastEnders actress screamed again when it was her turn to jump.

The final two celebrities, actor George Hamilton and How Clean Is Your House? presenter Kim Woodburn, were told to make their way to camp on foot.

Hamilton praised Woodburn for setting a good pace.
She replied: "We're definitely going to lose some weight, aren't we?

"Can you see my figure? I'll be a Grecian goddess and you'll be like a Grecian god."

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