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Ant McPartlin found himself shrieking in terror when he encountered an unexpected spider during a comical I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! livestream on Saturday.
The television host, alongside his co-presenter Declan Donnelly, both aged 50, have been engaging viewers with a nightly Instagram Live segment called Jungle Club following the main show broadcast.
In their most recent live session, where they typically respond to fan queries, Ant was taken by surprise as he noticed a spider perched on his shoulder.
Reacting swiftly, he leaped backward, exclaiming ‘a spider’ while desperately trying to flick the arachnid off his arm before dashing away.
Dec, trying to suppress his laughter, pointed at the spider as it made its escape, acknowledging Ant’s instincts with a chuckle, “It is! You were right, sorry for doubting you.”
Ant then returned to the desk where Dec was standing with a phone propped up to talk to their fans on the live stream, saying: ‘It was on me! Oh my God, it was on me!’
Ant McPartlin was left screaming in horror after finding a rogue spider during a hilarious I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! livestream on Saturday
During their latest live, where they typically answer questions sent in by fans, Ant gasped after discovering a spider on his shoulder
It comes after Ant was forced to break his silence on his bitter fallout with Kelly Brook on the I’m A Celebrity after show after he accidentally made a dig at her by calling the cooking ‘rancid’.
Kelly, 45, is thought to have been at loggerheads with Ant and Dec since she accused them of getting her fired from her role as judge on Britain’s Got Talent.
Ant appeared on I’m A Celebrity Unpacked on Saturday to discuss the night’s episodes with hosts Joel Dommett and Kemi Rogers.
He made the point that the celebs were particularly bad at cooking this year and said: ‘What they’ve got given hasn’t been awful, has it? Even octopus, if you cook it right, it’s nice. They just cooked it badly.
‘Every dinner they’ve made I’ve thought ‘That looks rancid’.
Kemi, 30, pointed out that the comment would be aimed at Kelly and Martin Kemp, who are currently the camp cooks.
Dec then turned to Ant and pointedly said: ‘What’s your problem with Kelly Brook?’
Exasperated, Ant said: ‘Don’t you start! I don’t have a problem with Kelly Brook, thank you.’
His co-host Declan Donnelly struggled to contain his laughter, pointing at the spider as it crawled away, adding: ‘It is! You were right, sorry for doubting you’
It comes after Ant was forced to break his silence on his bitter fallout with Kelly Brook on the I’m A Celebrity after show after he accidentally made a dig at her by calling the cooking ‘rancid’
Ant McPartlin was forced to address the resurfaced feud on I’m A Celeb Unpacked when he insisted, ‘I don’t have a problem with Kelly Brook’
In their 2010 autobiography, Dec was candid about the feud – insisting he could not understand why she had been recruited on to BGT.
Kelly joined the third series of Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 as the first ever fourth judge alongside Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan – however, she was axed after just one week when the format was deemed ‘too complicated’.
Despite the explanation, Kelly insisted Ant and Dec were behind the departure due to an awkward exchange. Dec wrote in his memoir, Ooh! What a Lovely Pair: Our Story: ‘Kelly looked nervous, so I told her it was going to be great fun and to just relax…
‘She nodded, then looked at me and said, ‘And what do you do on the show?’ I looked at Simon, who was sitting next to me. He turned to Kelly and said, ‘Kelly, you have seen the show, haven’t you?’ To which she replied, ‘Yeah… well, bits’.’
‘I don’t want to sound like an egomaniac, but the last person who said, ‘And what do you do?’ was the Queen when I met her at the party for ITV’s fiftieth anniversary.’
Kelly soon hit back saying: ‘There was nothing I could do in this country after Britain’s Got Talent. The people at ITV were telling me that I had upset Ant and Dec and that was it. I would love to have stayed on the show…
‘I really felt it was working out. Ant and Dec had never been anything but pleasant to my face but, clearly, they didn’t want me on the show.
‘Their egos are such that they were saying to themselves ‘How dare she think she can come on to our show?’, and since then they’ve been very vocal about their displeasure at me being there.’
Further on in their book, the duo confessed they were ‘annoyed’ they hadn’t been consulted about Kelly joining the show. Dec wrote: ‘We had two questions: ‘Why is there a fourth judge?’ and ‘Why is it Kelly Brook?’ None of them could answer us…
‘Obviously, as hosts of the show, we have to justify that kind of thing to the audience, and no one could give us a good reason why Kelly was on board.
‘The simple answer was that Simon, without talking to anyone, had decided it was a good idea. We didn’t agree.’
She also took a swipe at the duo for writing about her in their book, writing: ‘As for Ant and Dec, good luck to them. They are rich and they are happy, but they won’t be in my autobiography, even if I am in theirs!’