Ant and Dec have revealed a major change to I’m A Celebrity that could see campmates banned from using the toilet. 

On Wednesday’s episode of Unpacked, the hosting duo announced the campmates would be split into teams of four and each given a cash card.

From this week on, the celebrities will have to pay for everything using this card – including basic essentials such as shower gel or even using the dunny [the camp toilet]. 

And another catch is that cash will only be added onto the card as campmates compete in games to earn money. 

Speaking to Joel Dommett, Dec revealed: ‘They’re getting split into three teams of four and they’re coming down to the rank bank. Now the first three are coming to play against each other to win cash, or to win money to put on a cash card. 

Ant and Dec revealed a major change to I’m A Celebrity during the spin-off show Unpacked that could see campmates banned from using the toilet

From this week on, the celebrities will have to pay for everything using this card – including basic essentials such as shower gel or even using the dunny [the camp toilet]

‘So each team is getting one of these. Now everything will cost them from hereon in.’ 

Ant added: ‘So essentials, any little treats or anything they’ve got to pay for it with money they’ve put on the cash card.’   

Dec revealed that this will be introduced over the next few days as Joel joked: ‘We’ve finally gone cashless.’

‘But they’re going to have to pay for everything,’ Dec clarified. ‘Like if you want to use the dunny, that’s going to cost you. Essentials, everything.’

Guests on the show gasped as they realised going to the toilet would cost campmates – implying that they might be banned from using the dunny if their card declines.

Ant said: So you’ve got to weigh up “Do I have a lovely treat here” or do I need to stick with you know, shower gel?’  

There have been many curious rules in the I’m A Celebrity jungle over the years, with some a constant each series.  

Among the other rules of camp are that the celebrities have to wear red socks.

Another catch is that cash will only be added onto the card as campmates compete in games to earn money

Speaking to Joel Dommett , Dec revealed: ‘They’re getting split into three teams of four and they’re coming down to the rank bank’

Guests on the show gasped as they realised going to the toilet would cost campmates – implying that they might be banned from using the dunny if their card declines

The jungle uniform has remained largely unchanged over the past two decades, with campmates issued with the famous red and navy t-shirts and khaki separates.

Whilst most viewers would ᴀssume the red socks are simply to match the colour scheme, there’s a very good reason why that particular shade was chosen. 

Former show medic Bob McCarron spilled all to Woman’s Own, explaining that the cast are highly likely to tread on and be bitten by creepy crawlies, including leeches, which can leave traces of blood on the celebs’ skin and clothes. The red socks are to hide blood splatters from the blood sucking critters.

On the subject of uniform, the kit list permitted in camp is minimal.

Each campmate brings in three sets of underwear and three sets of swimwear – everything else is provided. 

The show’s co-creator Natalka Znak was ruthless when first setting out plans for the series and wanted the pampered stars to only bring one pair of underwear in, the ones they turned up wearing.

‘They’d have to wash them every day or go commando,’ she explained to the Radio Times. 

‘In the end, after months of discussion, we settled on three pairs each. I still think one pair would have been plenty.

There have been many curious rules in the I’m A Celebrity jungle over the years, with some a constant each series: among the other rules of camp are that the celebrities have to wear red socks

Show hosts Ant and Dec wear covers over their watches when they enter the camp every day so the celebs can’t get any cheeky glimpses

There are also no clocks in camp. And there’s a good reason as it means the celebs are completely detached from the real world and immersed in life in camp. 

Show hosts Ant and Dec even wear covers over their watches when they enter the camp every day so the celebs can’t get any cheeky glimpses.

Smoking was another catch, with the celebrities being granted an area to do so – but it is off-camera due to Ofcom guidelines. 

However in the first series smoking campmates were forgotten about. ‘We tried to think about absolutely everything when we were creating that first series, but inevitably a couple of details slipped through the net,’ explains former executive producer Alexander Gardiner. 

‘The biggest one by far was cigarettes. We hadn’t given smokers any thought at all. Our failure to provide fags goes some way to explaining just how bad-tempered the cast were’.

Since then celebrities have been allowed to smoke but they have a specific area to go to which is off-camera and does not feature in the nightly edit.