I'm A Celebrity's Dec needed months of intensive treatment after taking part in trial

Fan favourite trial Celebrity Cyclone is set to make a comeback but Declan Donnelly is unlikely to have another go at it.

The I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! presenter, 47, and his co-host Ant McPartlin previously took on the Bushtucker Trial a decade ago, but things didn’t exactly go to plan for dad-of-two Dec.

The Geordie star was left in agony after having a go on the trial consisting of a slippery slope, wind machines and giant balls, and even needed six months of physio to recover from his injuries.

During a chat earlier this week, Ant, 47, began saying: “We’re doing the Celebrity Cyclone today. It’s always fun to do, but it takes a while to do. It takes a long time to get everything set up and get all the paint bombs set up and all the sludge and the slime.

Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly are usually more at home presenting the ITV show

ant and dec during text santa

“Yeah, it takes a long time but it is fun, the most fun. Everybody who watches the show always wants to give it a go. We’ve actually done it in the past. We’ve done the trial.”

Turning to his best pal Dec, Ant added: “We did it for charity years ago, didn’t you pop your shoulder?”

Dec replied: “Yeah I did. I ended up in physio for six months afterwards. But it was great fun.”

Chuckling, Ant quipped: “Fun times though guys, fun times.”

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The “fun times” that resulted in Dec’s injury occurred ten years ago when the Geordie duo were seen taking part in a special edition of the Celebrity Cyclone challenge for the Text Santa charity.

Instead of watching on as celebrities took on a trial, Ant and Dec enjoyed a go on the slippery slides in order to raise some cash for charity.

“Each star marker that you reach is worth £25,000, so that’s a total of £100,000 for Text Santa,” the pair were told ahead of the challenge, as one-time I’m A Celebrity winner Joe Swash welcomed them as ‘contestants’.

Dec doing the cyclone

Ahead of the 2020 series of I’m A Celebrity kicking off in Wales, Ant and Dec put themselves through a few Bushtucker Trials to get viewers excited about the show’s first stint away from Australia.

The trials included ‘to catch a falling star’, in which Ant had cockroaches poured over him and scored no stars.

Dec did a slightly better job as he managed to catch one star while having creepy crawlies thrown over him – with the slime making the bugs stick to him.