Should I’m A Celebrity remain at Gwrych Castle in North Wales?

I’m A Celebrity 2020 hass now been on our screens for a week with viewing figures topping over 12m on the launch night.

After 20 series down under the hit ITV reality has been filmed in Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales and attracting thousands of people to the area.

Initially a victim of COVID-19 filming restrictions that made a jaunt Down Under impossible with panic set in at ITV that had production more horrifying than a rat-infested cave with Paul Burrell’s hand rummaging around inside of it, but now we reckon it could be time to get out of the jungle for good.

Let’s be honest, this probably wasn’t the 20-series celebration of I’m A Celebrity that ITV had planned. But it might just have been the best thing that could have happened to the show.

With £300,000 being paid for use of the castle, it’ll help towards the £10m which is required to deliver the first phase of planned repairs. The nort wales castle which many claim is haunted – was listed for auction in July 1946 by owners the Dundonald family, ending nearly 100 years of continuous family ownership.

Auctioneers at that time referred to the building as ‘The Well-known Picturesque Castle’, and say it was built by Lloyd Bamford Hesketh in the Regency Period – ‘costing a fortune’. It was eventually sold for £12,000 to a Mr JR Rennie of Wrexham

Since 23rd August the castle hass been closed which the new set-up being created with a forced to refresh, rethink, and not fall back on the same scenes that viewers have been tuning in to for nearly two decades. Much as we love a skydive jungle entry, a Celebrity Cyclone trial, and watching the drama unfold during campfire chats, 20 series in seems a good time to give things a little shake up

Without the pandemic, ITV bosses may have thought: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But couldn’t the reality contest could get a new lease of life by changing location each year?

Australia’s I’m A Celebrity films in South Africa and the short-lived US version spent a season in Costa Rica, so why not be open to the idea that our beloved UK show could go global rather than returning to its old stomping ground?

This year’s Welsh camp welcomes one of the strongest line-ups in years, with Sir Mo Farah, Corrie legend Beverley Callard, Vernon Kay, Giovanna Fletcher and Shane Richie taking part.

Our money is on Giovanna as the winner.

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I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! is on ITV nightly at 9pm