With minuscule portions of rice and beans, three weeks of sleeping rough and no fresh water, the I’m A Celebrity campmates are always on the edge of a mutiny.

And to stop this from happening, ITV bosses trap the stars with a drawbridge cutting off access from their camp onto the famous bridges that lead to the main production area.

It is only lifted for Ant and Dec or the production crew to enter the camp – the celebrities can not pull it down themselves.

I’m A Celebrity’s longtime Executive Producer, Olly Nash, told MailOnline: ‘We installed this drawbridge so the celebrities can’t get out and into the production area.

‘It was brought in after Anthony Worrel-Thompson and the rest of the camp stormed across the bridge into production in what was a great camp rebellion over the shortage of sausages.

‘The drawbridge has been here since then to stop that from happening again.’

With minuscule portions of rice and beans, three weeks of sleeping rough and no fresh water, the I’m A Celebrity campmates are always on the edge of a mutiny (Coleen Rooney, Jane Moore, GK Barry and Dean McCullough pictured)

And to stop this from happening, ITV bosses trap the stars with a drawbridge cutting off access from their camp onto the famous bridges that lead to the main production area (Oti Mabuse pictured)

In 2003, the show’s second series, the TV chef nearly brought the ITV1 show to a grinding halt when he incited the hungry group, including the likes of Strictly’s Toyah Wilcox and Daniella Westbrook, to rise up and leave camp after they received – what they considered – inadequate food.

They were enтιтled to nine meals after ex-footballer John Fashanu dunked his head into various boxes of eels, rats and spiders to retrieve the stars.

A fuming Antony, now 73, led the group across the bridge leading out of the Australian jungle but was intercepted by producers of the show.

‘We stuck to our side of the bargain, you will stick to yours – nine sausages, I’m sorry, doesn’t consтιтute a meal,’ he argued during a showdown in the Bush Telegraph.

‘Nine pieces of cauliflower, 27 mange tout, two mushrooms, four kiwi fruit and some nuts without a nutcracker.

‘What’s wrong with you? It’s meant to be nine main meals. It’s less than 1,000 calories a day,’ he continued.

Former EastEnders actress Danniella angrily chipped in: ‘If he (Antony) served that in his restaurant for nine people he would be struck off.’

Singer Toyah Wilcox said: ‘Fash has done four trials and has risked things – he has almost been bitten and has faced his fears and there was no real reward at the end of it. Today we have had a duff deal.’

The TV chef warned: ‘If we all walk out of here then you’re screwed. This show, as far as I’m aware and I’d like to speak to my agent tomorrow morning, is about if I’m a celebrity, then get me out of here, and we’re all going to say it and we’re all leaving tomorrow morning.’

It is only lifted for Ant and Dec or the production crew to enter the camp – the celebrities can not pull it down themselves

Executive Producer, Olly Nash, told MailOnline: ‘It was brought in after Anthony Worrel-Thompson and the rest of the camp stormed across the bridge’ (Anthony pictured) 

Antony also tried to escape in a bid to blackmail TV bosses into giving him four cigarettes and pledged that the 10 contestants would stick together.

‘You are not going to part us or split us… We are a unit and we are going together,’ he said. ‘We had a lark around last night. This time it’s serious.’

After being stopped by the crew, the celebrities were eventually persuaded to accept an alternative meal worth the same amount of calories.

They returned to camp happier with meat, vegetables, potatoes and oranges.