I'm A Celebrity's Dec Donnelly bitten by huge spider as medics rush to treat him

03 Dec 2024, 15:55 by Tom BryantHead of Showbiz · RSVP Live

Presenter Dec Donnelly had to be looked at by medics after a spider bit his neck in the I'm A Celeb camp.

The incident happened behind the scenes on the show earlier this week. Ant McPartlin opened up about the bite to viewers of an Instagram Live, reports The Mirror.

He said: "We’ve had quite a lot of drama not only on the show but off the show as well because Dec had a spider on his neck and was bitten by a spider and the medic was called in to have a look."

Dec had a picture of the spider on his phone and shared it with the viewers, as well as the mark on his neck. He said: "Look at that spider, it bit me on the neck."

He said it jumped onto his script before biting his neck.

Dec then joked: "The medic said I was lucky to be alive. If I wasn’t so fit and healthy, and masculine, I might not have survived."

But Ant gave him short shrift saying: "No, she didn't, she said it was a jumping spider and it was absolutely fine." It’s the latest drama to befall the camp.

Dean McCullough revealed to The Mirror this week how the rainy conditions in the jungle were so bad that campmates are getting trench foot.

Ant McPartlin (left) and Dec Donnelly (right)(Image: ITV)

As part of an exclusive interview, Dean opened up about how gruelling the recent storms really were.

"Imagine the worst camping trip you’ve ever been on. You think it’s going to be gorgeous, then everything gets wet and you’re stuck there for weeks. Nothing ever dries out," he says.

"It’s kind of a thing now in camp where if you don’t have trench foot, you’re kind of not cool. It was a real thing, and it does bring the mood down. Me and Coleen were both like: 'when are we going to get a chance to do some sun bathing?'"

He says that one night the rain got so bad they all had to shelter in the Bush Telegraph for 45 minutes.

"All our crocodile tail for dinner was ruined, so they gave us tofu instead," he says. "If that’s not a short change, I don’t know what is…from crocodile tail to tofu.

"I’m from Belfast, and I live in Manchester, the two wettest places in the UK. I will never whinge about that rain ever again. It was biblical."

Dean was the second celeb to leave the camp after Jane Moore. Tulisa has since left too.