A worrying situation
One half of presenting duo Ant and Dec has been rushed to medics while backstage on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
It is thought Declan Donnelly was bitten by a spider in the Australian jungle where the show is filmed.
Donnelly, 49, was checked over by specialists working on the ITV show to make sure the bite wasn’t poisonous.
His co-host Ant McPartlin took to Instagram Live to share details of the horror incident.
He said: “We’ve had quite a lot of drama not only on the show, but off the show as well, because Dec had a spider on his neck and was bitten by a spider and the medic was called in to have a look.”
The spider appeared on a script before leaping onto Donnelly’s neck.
Thankfully the presenter was able to make light of the situation as he quipped: “The medic said I was lucky to be alive. If I wasn’t so fit and healthy, and masculine, I might not have survived.”
His co-host retorted: “No, she didn’t, she said it was a jumping spider and it was absolutely fine.”
Bites from jumping spiders are rare, but they’re thankfully not venomous. Side effects include redness, itching, stinging and swelling.
They can jump between 10 and 40 times their own body length and are around 10,000 spider species in Australia.
Meanwhile, Tulisa has broken her silence after leaving I’m A Celeb without doing the spin-off show.
She was the third celebrity to be voted off the ITV show but didn’t appear on I’m A Celeb: Unpacked.
All the posts she made on social media while on the show have all been deleted.
The N-Dubz star has since released a video to ‘clear a couple things up’.
She said: “I’m just doing a little video to clear a couple things up.
“Just so you know, when I came out of the jungle, I felt fine first of all and then that evening my friends went to bed.
“I was on my Instagram trying to have a nice little scroll at some funny stuff. I was getting a lot of attention, a lot of bombarding in all the most positive way.
“But because it’s been a while for me I can get overwhelmed quite easily. And I just started to feel overwhelmed. I thought do you know what, I really just need to take a bit of time for me and just chill.
“This is all feeling just a little bit much at the moment. I’m just going to archive all my stuff to do with the jungle. Then when the time is right and I’ve had a little time to process I’m going to make my own reels of all my best bits I really like.”
