ITV I'm A Celebrity's Dec Donnelly confirms 'drama' on set as medics rush in

Dec Donnelly had to be looked at by medics after a spider bit him while in the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here camp. The presenter confirmed the incident happened behind the scenes on the show earlier this week.

It was his co-host Ant McPartlin who opened up about the bite to viewers of an Instagram Live, which they dub 'Jungle Club' as they speak to fans live after each show.

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."

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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, the Mirror reports.

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.

It comes after Dean McCullough revealed this week just how the rainy conditions were in camp. As part of an interview with the Mirror, Dean opened up about how gruelling the recent storms really were in Australia which almost took the show off air over the weekend.

"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 said. "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?'"

The BBC Radio 1 star said 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."