ITV I'm A Celebrity fans say 'it's sending me' as 'weird' celebrities change spotted with 'sad' consequences

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here fans have been left confused by a 'weird' change to the celebrities' appearance while in the jungle as the new series gets underway.

The 2024 series kicked off on Sunday night (November 17) and saw ten famous faces being introduced. ad they prepared to make their jungle debuts. Split into two groups, there wasn't much time for the celebrities to get acquainted as they were swiftly faced with a trial that would decide the first camp leaders of the series.

Later, after facing challenges before arriving in the jungle, Barry McGuigan and Danny Jones were tasked by the first camp leaders Alan Halsall and Tulisa Contostavlos to take on the first trial after being chosen by their fellow contestants. It saw them locked in padlocked cages and trying to earn stars, which equate to meals. It saw Danny earn five stars, while Barry struggled and got nothing. As a result, the camp was given their first dinner of Kangaroo hind.

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Then, during the second episode on Monday night (November 18), fans were surprised to see campmate GK Barry, also known as Grace, miss out on just one star in the Vile Volcano bushtucker trial after she appeared to be terrified of the critters she encountered.

Having been voted by the public for the trial GK was given a pep talk by her fellow campmates before heading down to see Ant and Dec. She admitted she had likely been voted by the public for being the only person to scream through the challenges the previous day.

At the bushtucker trial clearing, GK found out she would have to venture deep inside a bubbling volcano into a series of caves and tunnels. As she moved through the chambers she had to collect stars, faced with snakes, spiders, rats and plenty of creepy crawlies along the way.

At one point, GK was joined by giant spiders, one of which perched itself on top of her helmet. Luckily the star didn't notice so she managed to power through the remainder of the trial coming out of the other side with a total of nine stars out of a possible 10 for the camp.

But there has been something distracting I'm A Celeb viewers. In previous years, the contestants have carried the phone number fans needed to call to vote for them on the back of their T-shirts. However, this year the tradition has been abandoned, with viewers being directed to vote via the show's app instead and just the campmates name filling the top of the back of their shirts.

@superTV247 said: "THEY DON’T HAVE PHONE NUMBERS ON THE BACK OF THEIR SHIRTS? #ImACeleb." @azzle94 commented: "Just realised they don’t have their phone numbers on the back of their shirts! #ImACeleb." @samgardiner29 posted: "Feels weird that no one has a phone number on their back this year #imaceleb."

@st_ua_rt wrote: "All of the t-shirts having full government names on the back rather than their first names and a phone number is sending me #ImACeleb." @patel07bcfc added: "Anyone else on day 2 n just realised they don’t have phone numbers on their T-shirts Just looked online and it’s due too not many people actually doing phone votes #imaceleb."

And it made many realise that something else key to the show will be missing going forward. @stellycrawf said: "We'll never hear "SHORT NUMBER" when the vote opens ever again I'm really sad #ImACeleb." @MitchellWebb85 commented: "No phone lines to vote this year then m gonna miss hearing “The short number” being said #ImACeleb." @marcjohnson27 added: "So 2024 is the year they’ve finally got rid of phone voting… who’s gonna shout call the SHORT NUMBER now #ImACeleb."

A spokesperson for ITV reportedly revealed that there'd been a huge decline in telephone voting recently, prompting the show to channel it all into one place.