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Ryan Paton

ITV I'm A Celebrity confirms huge change ahead of new season

The latest season of I'm a Celebrity is set to premiere tomorrow.

The popular ITV programme is returning to Wales as 10 new celebrities will compete to be crowned King or Queen of the castle.

Producers of the show have confirmed a raft of changes for this series to make it “much tougher” for the contestants.

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The camp will initially be split in half as celebrities will battle it out in a Turrets of Terror challenge to see who stays in the main camp and who is sent to the gloomy Clink.

Celebrities doomed to The Clink will have to sleep on the floor shower in the dark - and the show's Creative Directo r says the huge change will change the dynamic of the season.

Tom Gould said: “Life will be made much tougher for the celebrities who end up in The Clink.

"This is the biggest change for us and it will change the dynamic at the start of the series.

“Obviously as a group coming into the castle last year, they were 10 celebrities all together from day one, whereas this time, it’s something we’ve done in Australia in the past, we’ve got these two groups, and that does change the dynamic and has an impact over the first few shows.

“It could then mean that when they do come together that they do come together very quickly or it might not have that effect.

“I think it just adds a different dimension to their personal experience.”

Ant and Dec’ s main presenting studio remains unchanged but producers remained tight-lipped on whether to expect any late arrivals.

Speaking about the new series, executive director Olly Nash said: “We did set out at the beginning to make it much tougher.

“They’re in for longer, the trials are bigger. The trials were quite limited last year but this year they’re much closer to the Australian series in terms of their scale.

“There are more trials over the whole series than we have ever had before, and I think there are more trialists, more celebrities who take part in trials across the series than ever before in any other series.

“It’s just the learnings of having one series here and what’s possible.

“I think we’ve come into it with more ambition. There are 24 trials this year.”

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! starts on Sunday November 21 at 9pm on ITV and ITV Hub.

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