I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! star Dean McCullough has let slip inside information about trials with Ant and Dec.
Dean McCullough appeared on Good Morning Britain with Ed Balls and Susanna Reid to talk about his time on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! after he became the second contestant to leave the jungle on Sunday (December 1st) episode.
During a live discussion with breakfast presenters Susanna and Ed, Dean let slip details about the Bushtucker trials that fans were not privy to viewing. Those who tuned in for the ITV series this year will know that the Irishman was a popular favourite with UK voters to carry out the grisly challenges.
Early on, fans began to nominate Dean after he screamed, “I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Here!” just as the trial was getting going and not even giving it a real attempt, much to Ant McPartlin’s annoyance. The Geordie presenter quickly became annoyed and fumed at the star, giving him a “proper telling off.”
Chatting about the frightful trials with Dean on air, Susanna pointed out: “Seven trials, that is more the Matt Hancock.” Sheepish with his reply, the ITV star replied: “Don’t make that comparison.”
Wanting to know more about the experience, she continued with her question: “Tell us about that experience because it’s one of the things that came over.”
Dean detailed trial information that fans don’t see (Image: ITV)
Susanna carried on: “I think your very first trial was when you were in the sarcophagus, you were absolutely determined to do it then all of a sudden it begins to fill up with sand and it’s the first time you screamed ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!’,” before asking: “Did you gradually learn to love the trials or did your heart sink every time?”
Ed chirped in with: “It didn’t look like you did.” In reply, Dean told the TV duo: “Yeah, I wouldn’t say love but you do actually get used to the tension.”
Letting slip on trial conditions, something that fans do not see, he explained: “What you don’t see on telly is that it’s very quiet and it’s all taken very very seriously. There are so many rules that you’ve got to remember and it’s tense.”
Susanna and Ed interviewed Dean on GMB (Image: ITV)
The radio presenter detailed that he would do the trials again if given the chance. He said: “I was the first one to get out and repeat these trials so over the week I actually got used to it. Now the sand one, I could not have predicted that was going to happen.
“All I was told was to stand in the box with my hands on the perspex and I might be joined by things in the tomb so I wasn’t expecting it at all but I would actually do it again, I would give it a go.”
He added: “I think like anything you keep doing it and you get used to it but I wouldn’t say I loved the trials.”
Dean details moment Ant “told him off” (Image: ITV)
Ed wanted to know if despite what was shown on screens, if Dean was more determined that we were led to believe. He quizzed: “Would you go into every trial determined that you weren’t going to shout ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!’?”
At this point, Dean referred back to his on-air spat with TV host Ant but reassured fans that it was now water under the bridge. Dean told viewers: Yeah, I mean when Ant was telling me off for saying ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!’
“It felt like a proper telling off and I felt like he meant it. So I did what I was told and I wanted to win him back around which I think I did in the end.”
