'I'm A Celeb': Top Ten Tucker Trials

It's that time of year again. A batch of celebs are about to swap their lavish lifestyles for two weeks of chomping kangaroo balls and bathing with crocs in the Aussie jungle. And as if it wasn't enough to live with a group of sweaty strangers and eat rice five times a day, the poor mites are at our mercy as we force them to endure stomach-churning challenges to win meals for the camp. As the next bunch of celebs gear up to face their fears in I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!, DS looks back at the best of the show's infamous 'Bushtucker Trials'.

1. Paul Burrell's Hell Holes
Paul Burrell yelped, whimpered, screamed and sobbed as he went "to infinity and beyond" in this gruelling series four trial. The former royal butler had to stick his arm into a series of holes in a rock face, each crawling with such unsavoury specimens as spiders, rats and - his personal nightmare - snakes. "There's something moving, there's something MOVING!" he shrieked, as hosts Ant and Dec looked on in hysterics. A performance boasting an equal mix of terror and theatre culminated in a wobbly-kneed topple to the jungle floor.

2. Dean Gaffney's Bush Spa
Late entrant Gaffney had a nasty surprise when he was forced to 'brave' a live trial before heading into the camp for the first time. The ex-EastEnder yelled and retched his way through beauty treatments from hell, enduring a cockroach shampoo and an alligator bath to scoop nine stars for his new companions. He later confessed that he had regurgitated his lunch while struggling to pick up a star with his mouth.

3. Matt Willis' Bush Banquet
Despite entering the final day of the last series as an 8-1 underdog against Myleene Klass and Jason Donovan, Matt Willis impressed viewers by facing a banquet to make the strongest stomach heave. The former Busted star chomped his way through kangaroo sphincter and crocodile penis before walking away with the jungle crown. He later said: “The anus was revolting and hairy. The penis wasn’t that bad, it was rubbery."

4. Sheree Murphy's Rocky Horror
When Sheree Murphy confided that she was scared of insects (and practically everything else), it was only a matter of time before viewers made her face her fears in 2005. She collected stars hidden among the usual array of creepy-crawlies, before a bath of baby crocs left her screaming: "Get me out, get me out!" She broke down afterwards, moaning: "It was just disgusting. It was horrible. I was just petrified."

5. Myleene Klass’ Scareoke
The bikini-clad singer sang for her supper in her final trial, a cunning variation on karaoke known as Scare-e-oke. After stepping into a special recording booth, she belted out five cheesy pop songs word for word while being bombarded with fish guts and all manner of other jungle-themed treats. "I think the singing is scarier than the things falling on me," she admitted, eventually bagging five stars for her trouble.

6. Jordan and Kerry's Bush Tucker Duel
Kerry Katona and Jordan tried a whole new diet when they sampled mealworms, cockroaches, green ants, witchety grubs and fish eyes in series three. Despite a cheerful Kerry insisting that that they tasted "really nice", the feast proved to be a retch-inducing ordeal for the girls. Both had a brave stab at the wriggly snacks before Jordan fell at the last hurdle, spitting out her fish eye when it burst on her tongue.

7. Jennie's Danger Down Under
In between spats with fellow contestant Lord Brocket in series three, posh Jennie Bond got to spend ten minutes in a dark, water-filled coffin with 30 rats. The former royal reporter, an eventual runner-up to Kerry Katona, handled the horror by calling out her daughter’s name to help her stay sane.

8. Joe Pasquale's Hell-o-copter
In a trial guaranteed to strike terror into the hearts of anyone with a fear of heights, comic Joe Pasquale had to climb down a rope ladder dangling from an airborne helicopter. "I'm looking forward to it in a masochistic kind of way," he said, before admitting that he was also "cacking" himself. Shoving his fear of flying aside, he bravely announced: "Danger's my middle name", prompting Dec to pipe up: "Really? I thought it was Kevin." Pasquale managed to grab eight stars by unfurling banners on the ladder, going on to pip Paul Burrell to the series four prize.

9. Brian Harvey’s House of Pies
The East 17 star didn't exactly take to the jungle, eventually calling it a day after rowing with Janet Street-Porter over a fart. Often moaning that he was hungry, he once grumbled: "I thought there'd be people behind trees slippin' you a pizza or summink." He didn't fare much better in his trial, which required him to tuck into a veritable feast of insects disguised as pies while flies swarmed around his head. He managed to bag two stars before he started retching and asked to quit.

10. Fash's Eel Helmet
Series two saw John Fashanu place his head in a perspex box of water, with eels dropping on him through a chute every 30 seconds. Ant was suitably sympathetic, conceding that the footballer's trial was "probably one of the toughest, to be honest with you". After seeing the challenge through to its slimy end, an unimpressed Fash glowered: "That was hell. Whoever thought of that I'd like to meet in a dark alley."