Ant McPartlin sparked health concerns just minutes into Sunday night’s episode of I’m A Celebrity – and worried fans have begged ITV bosses to step in.
The latest instalment of the programme saw Ant, 50, and co-star Declan Donnelly, also 50, return to our screens with their hilarious and witty banter.
But really early on, viewers took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to point out something different about Ant.
The Geordie presenter had a very husky voice as he hosted a segment before Emmerdale star Lisa Riley’s trial.
As Dec hit the back of his back to help clear Ant’s throat, he brutally told him: ‘Cough it up son!’
A shocked Ant jokingly said: ‘I’ll shove you over there in a minute!’ as he pretended to push him over the edge of the banister.
Ant McPartlin sparked health concerns just minutes into Sunday night’s episode of I’m A Celebrity – and worried fans have begged ITV bosses to step in
The latest instalment of the programme saw Ant, 50, and co-star Declan Donnelly, also 50, return to our screens with their hilarious and witty banter
Fans wrote on social media: ‘Poor Ant’s voice.’
‘Someone get Ant a lemsip #ImACeleb.’
‘poor ant’s going to have no voice at the end of this.’
‘Ant what happened to your voice.’
‘Oh ant has a husky voice.’
‘Oh dear Ant doesn’t sound very well at all.’
‘poor Ant’s voice is going! Can someone please get some honey and lemon to in the jungle please.’
‘Awwww poor ant has lost his voice.’
Many took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share their concern about Ant’s throat – with one asking if anyone had a lozenge
The response comes after I’m A Celeb fans were left ‘devastated’ after Eddie Kadi become the second contestant to be voted out of the jungle on Sunday evening.
The funnyman, 42, found himself in the bottom two alongside model Vogue Williams, before hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly announced it was he who had received the fewest votes and would be leaving camp.
Fans were gutted by the decision, claiming Eddie was one of the most ‘underrated’ campmates and Vogue or Kelly Brook should have received the boot instead.
Eddie, who was second to leave after Lioness Alex Scott, said his farewells before sitting down for his exit interview where he reflected on his jungle experience, telling the hosts how it had ‘changed his life’.
He said: ‘I feel like I’ve been in there a year, it’s literally changed my life. Coming from Congo, where we have a massive rainforest, I feel like I’ve had a taste of what my grandparents experienced, and I realise now why they were so humble.
‘They were joyful regardless of any situation. Even when you’ve got no food, it goes to show that we are enough as human people.’
I’m A Celeb fans were left ‘devastated’ after Eddie Kadi become the second contestant to be voted out of the jungle on Sunday evening
The funnyman, 42, found himself in the bottom two alongside model Vogue Williams, before hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly announced he had received the fewest votes
Taking to X, fans said: ‘Eddie was the most underrated Campmate. Seems like such a lovely guy.’
‘I’m so surprised that Kelly is still there! Eddie didn’t deserve to go yet, so annoyed.’
‘Eddie shouldn’t have gone it should have been the Dullard Vogue.’
‘Kelly Brook was annoying me that much I’ve stopped watching, but what do you mean Eddie is out?!?’
‘Noooooooo – man, what is it with the British people and votes?! Absolutely love Eddie… He didn’t get a fair edit in my opinion.’
The evening’s episode opened with Shona and Lisa’s first morning as camp leader and deputy and they both woke up well rested from a great night’s sleep in the comfort of the treehouse.
Eddie was in charge of the rice that morning, having been appointed cooking duty by Shona and Lisa the night before.
He admitted to Tom about the new responsibility, he was ‘nervous, because I live by myself. When you’re cooking for you, there’s no one to judge.’
Eddie headed down to take a shower, with the rice cooking away on the fire. He told the Bush Telegraph: ‘Breakfast is going well, the rice is nearly done. Myself and Ruby have got this under control.’
However, it appeared the camp had other ideas on Eddie’s cooking ability as Kelly could smell burning.
Kelly told the Bush Telegraph: ‘He made the colossal error of putting the rice on and going for a shower. I watched him do it, I didn’t wanna say anything because I can’t get involved, I have a feeling this morning it’s gonna be a little bit crispy!’
Fans were gutted by the decision claiming Eddie was one of the most ‘underrated’ campmates and Vogue or Kelly Brook should have received the boot instead
Eddie said his farewells before sitting down for his exit interview where he reflected on his jungle experience, telling the hosts how it had ‘changed his life’
‘I feel like I’ve had a taste of what my grandparents experienced, and I realise now why they were so humble. They were joyful regardless of any situation’
Eddie was met by his pal Deji Akinyemi as he crossed the iconic bridge back into civilisation
Taking to X fans said: ‘Eddie was the most underrated Campmate. Seems like such a lovely guy’ and ‘I’m so surprised that Kelly is still there! Eddie didn’t deserve to go yet, so annoyed’
And it appeared Ruby also had something to say about Vogue tending to the fire as she whispered to Ginge: ‘She just destroyed it, she doesn’t know what she’s doing.’
As Vogue quipped back: ‘Are you two b****ing about me?’ as they giggled and Ginge whispered back to Ruby ‘absolutely clueless’.
As the burnt rice was served for breakfast, everyone was less than impressed.
Jack joked: ‘It’s Eddie’s first race, so he’s warming up to it.’
Later in yet more tension, Shona entered camp with a laminate, as she guiltily told her fellow campmates: ‘please don’t hate me…’
The laminate informed the celebrities contraband had been found in camp, in the form of butter.
The evening’s episode opened with Shona and Lisa’s first morning as camp leader and deputy and they both woke up well rested from a great night’s sleep in the comfort of the treehouse
Things were heating up as I’m A Celebrity entered its third and final week with Sunday’s jam-packed and episode – as Eddie ended up burning some rice which led to a war of words
With Shona as the camp leader, she had an important choice to make – as punishment for the contraband found in camp she could either step down as leader, or lose two stars won in the day’s trial.
Coming clean, Shona told the camp ‘I’m not responsible for it, but I used it’ as she revealed the contraband in question was some butter she found in the food trunk.
As the celebrities deduced it might have been Alex who smuggled it in, Shona told the Bush Telegraph: ‘I don’t know where it came from, but I saw it and my eyes lit up and I used it.’
Taking the decision herself, Shona decided to dethrone from her role as camp leader as Aitch took Shona’s big leaf she was using as a crown and put it on the fire.
The celebrities then took a vote to appoint a new camp leader, with Ruby winning by a landslide.
She told her campmates: ‘Things are about to change’ as she told the camp ‘No more Mrs Nice Guy!’ and demanded that Shona should be her footstool, Aitch should be her entertainer and Ginge her dancer.
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! continues Monday on ITV1 from 9pm and is available to stream on ITVX.
