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How I'm A Celebrity's Bushtucker Trials will be forced to change with new UK location

I'm A Celebrity will be swapping Australia for the UK, but that won't be the biggest change to the ITV series this year.

ITV bosses were forced to ditch plans to air the show in Oz after struggling to make it work due to extensive coronavirus restrictions.

So instead of facing Kangaroo testicles and widgety grubs, celebrities will need to face eating ram's penises and ox tongue. Nice.

It has also been reported that celebrities could compete to win hot water in trials - which will definitely encourage them to keep going in the chilly November weather.

I'm A Celebrity will air in a Welsh castle next year (Daily Post Wales)

But the switch from Australian to UK time will likely have a major impact on the Bushtucker Trials.

Usually, I'm A Celeb airs 9pm UK time - which would be 6am the next day in New South Wales and fans would be able to watch the campmates wake up.

Towards the end of the show, Ant and Dec will often enter the camp to reveal who is doing the Bushtucker Trial later that day.

Ant and Dec will return to host I'm A Celeb (ITV)
Gwrych Castle in June 2006 (Daily Post Wales)

Only, when it airs in the UK, Ant and Dec will greet the campmates in the evening instead.

Could this mean that the Bushtucker Trials will take place at night? A spooky night task would certainly suit the new eerie location of a haunted castle in North Wales.

The upcoming 20th season of the show is tipped to be filmed within the grounds of 200-year-old Gwrych Castle folly in North Wales – which for years has been rumoured to be haunted.

The castle ruins are said to be stalked by the ghost of past owner, Winifred Cochrane, the Countess of Dundonald, who died in 1924.

Local legends suggest the ghost of the Duchess appears floating above a first floor window in a room with no floor boards due to the wood rotting away.

While other ghosts of former gamekeepers and that of a servant girl who died on the grounds are also said to have materialised on the land...

*I'm A Celebrity returns in November on ITV

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