'Celeb' gets bigger budget for trials

I'm A Celebrity producer Chris Lore has been given a bigger budget for this year's Bushtucker Trials.

The Trials area has been specially extended for the new series, and the show's team have managed to dream up some of the most frightening challenges yet.

"We are doing more on site and we have bigger toys to play with and more animals," Lore told the Daily Star. "The Trials area is bigger than ever before. Expect claustrophobia, heights, the dark and deep water. We also have crocs. One of the trials is so scary it made one 'guinea pig' walk off the set."

However, the producer admitted that there had been some problems in securing enough gruesome dishes for a celebrity to eat in one planned challenge.

"We want to bring back some faves for a Bushtucker bonanza but there is a shortage of witchetty grubs," Chris explained. "We are having to get some in from Tasmania. And it's hard to get hold of the 'bush oysters' - kangaroo balls. It's illegal to buy them so you have to become friends with someone who has kangaroos. If they are given to you, that's OK."