Where is I'm a Celebrity filmed? Inside the jungle makeover

Coleen Rooney, Barry McGuigan and more stars have flown Down Under to film I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here.

Cameras are rolling where the stars stay at the Springbrook National Park in Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia. Ant and Dec film live segments that are broadcast from the platform and the iconic rope bridge in the trees.

The Sun reported the first series was filmed in a different location, near Cairns in Queensland before it moved to its current location. Then in 2020, amid the COVID pandemic, the ITV jungle show was given a makeover and filmed at Gwrych Castle, in Wales due to the travel restrictions at the time.

Otherwise the I'm a Celeb show has been filmed in the same location in Murwillumbah since the second series broadcast in 2003.

I'm a Celeb is back on our screens with a new line-up but did you notice that the main jungle camp — where the celebs sleep, eat and relax when they aren't doing the Bushtucker trials — has been given a makeover this year?

Leaders Lodge

TV bosses axed the first challenge in favour of a race to crown the camp's first leaders, Tulisa Contostavlos and Alan Halsall. While I'm a Celebrity stars rough it a bit, the leaders have been given an enviable set up in camp.

Eight out of 10 of the celebrities will still sleep under the stars.

However, the Leaders Lodge has a comfortable bed for the leaders to sleep in as well as rocking chairs for them to sit in. Additionally it provides shelter from any downpours in the jungle — something we know can affect the celebrities' moods (and who can blame them?).

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Executive producer Olly Nash told The Mirror: "There is a new building that is called the Leaders Lodge that will have wonderfully comfy beds sheltered from the rain, nice plush pillows and big duvets, or doonas, as they call them, in Australia, which will keep them nice and snug and warm. As opposed to everyone out here who's exposed and sleeping in Swags."

As well as the luxurious accommodation, the leaders are exempt from all the chores. It's expected Contostavlos and Halsall will have the power for at least a week in the jungle.

Other changes to camp include the comfortable chairs for the leaders to sit in at the firepit, while the rest of the camp must sit on logs.

I'm a Celebrity 2022 contestant Scarlette Douglas told Yahoo the main camp where it is filmed is a "small space" — even though "on TV, it looks quite big".

She said: "The social challenge of [I'm a Celebrity] of all these different personalities in such a small space for such a long time. The camp, you think it's huge, but actually it's not really that big. Yes, okay, you can wander off and go to other places, but realistically you're in around the camp, you find them."

Jungle showers

Of course, some of the jungle's memorable spaces are very much the same including the dunny — that all the celebs dread — and the outdoors shower which is freezing by the way!

The outdoors jungle showers have become a much-talked about part of the show thanks to Myleene Klass and her white bikini in the 2006 series. She has since auctioned off that bikini for £7,500. Klass told Yahoo in 2023: "You know what that bikini has done its job! It’s done a lot. It’s quite incredible."

And how can we forget Nigel Farage who went naked in the outdoor shower last year?

Alternatively celebrities can wash using the bathtub. To have a hot bath, they must pump the water.

The dunny

As for the dunny, the celebrities dread using it every year. Clearing up the dunny features as one of the main chores of camp and often is the task that everyone wants to avoid.

Behind the scenes, Snoochie Shy revealed I'm a Celeb crew help the stars clean up the dunny.

She told The Sun in 2021: "I was doing poo patrol, I loved poo patrol. I actually thought before coming in, I might have to drain the poo myself, but luckily didn't have to do that. I just had to put the privy bowl thing into the cupboard. And then, someone comes and takes it out. I thought, before I went in there, that I'd have to drain it and see turds just flying all over the place. But luckily, I didn't have to do that."

I'm a Celebrity continues at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX.