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

ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! host Declan Donnelly had to be looked at by medics after being bitten by a spider. The ordeal reportedly happened behind the scenes earlier this week.

Fellow host Ant McPartlin opened up about the bite during an Instagram Live. 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 shared a picture of the spider on his phone with the viewers, as well as a mark on his neck. He said: "Look at that spider, it bit me on the neck."

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He said the spider jumped onto his script before biting his neck, 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."

Ant then said: "No, she didn't, she said it was a jumping spider and it was absolutely fine." It comes as Dean McCullough - who has now left the camp - revealed how rainy conditions in the Australian jungle have been so bad that campmates are getting trenchfoot.

He opened up about how gruelling the recent storms really were. He said: "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.

"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 "wwhen are we going to get a chance to do some sun bathing?"."

He said the rain was so bad one night that they all had to shelter in the Bush Telegraph for 45 minutes. He said: "All our crocodile tail for dinner was ruined, so they gave us tofu instead.

"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.