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Neil Shaw & Sophie McCoid

ITV bosses confirm I'm a Celebrity future location

I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! is set to return to Australia this year, providing travel restrictions are no longer in place.

Last year the series was unable to be filmed in Australia because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The programme instead moved to Gwrych Castle, near Abergele in North Wales with celebrities battling it out to be crowned king or queen of the castle instead - reports North Wales Live.

Today ITV chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall said the show, hosted by Ant and Dec, is “meant to be in Australia”.

She said the castle format, in the series which was won by podcast host Giovanna Fletcher, had been a “tremendous success”.

But she added: “If we can go back to Australia – and this show is meant to be in Australia – then that’s what we’ll do.”

Speaking as ITV published its group annual results, she added: “We have a very good plan if not, as we have already done it once (in the castle).”

Ant McPartlin recently said he would be “very happy” for I’m A Celebrity to return to Wales.

He said he and co-host Declan Donnelly were “welcomed” there, as he told Digital Spy: “There were cardboard cutouts of me and Dec in the butcher’s, and the local school did a tribute.

“We’d happily go back there. We’d miss the sunshine, mind.”

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Dame Carolyn also said Love Island will be returning in the summer, although the location of the show, usually filmed in a villa in Majorca, is still to be confirmed.

The programme, now hosted by Laura Whitmore, has been a huge hit for ITV2.

Last year's summer series and this year's winter series were both cancelled because of the global pandemic.

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