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Preparations for the new series of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! are well underway, with this year's jungle set already starting to take shape.
With just three weeks to go until the ITV hit returns, the Australian jungle is once again being transformed, with aerial snaps showing the how the set currently looks.
Large metal frameworks are being erected on the sprawling site, while familiar jungle structures, waterways and elevated platforms can be seen nestled among the dense rainforest.
I'm A Celeb is set to return for its 26th series on November 16, and people are already speculating about who will be flying Down Under.
Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly will once again be at the helm, and the first teaser for the show was aired last week.
Last year's series launched with 11.3million viewers. Across all platforms, it reached 23.4million people which is 38 per cent of the TV population.
Preparations for the new series of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! are well underway, with this year's jungle set already starting to take shape
Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly will once again be at the helm as the first teaser for the 26th series was aired last week
It comes after Ant and Dec were criticised by Peta over I'm A Celeb's 'relentless reign of animal exploitation', with Halloween costumes calling out the 'tacky and cruel spectacle'.
The show's notorious Bushtucker trials, which see celebrities locked in with live animals and forced to eat creatures such as spiders, mealworms and cockroaches, have sparked fierce controversy over the years.
Peta have long campaigned against the programme, saying that 'animal abuse is not entertainment'.
Now, with spooky season upon us, the animal rights group have created new Ant and Dec costumes that turn the I'm A Celeb presenters into perpetrators at a grisly crime scene.
The costumes call out the duo's long-running cruelty towards frogs, crocodiles, spiders, rats, insects and other animals who have been killed, eaten and subjected to stressful stunts for the show's eating trials.
The costume, retailing at £95, is now available to order on the Peta website. All proceeds will benefit Peta's work to end animal exploitation.
But behind the Halloween spoof is a history of real-life horrors, Peta claims.
The ITV show has confined frogs and other animals in inescapable chambers with screaming, flailing contestants during the trials and served animals' genitals, organs and other body parts as food.
With just three weeks to go until the ITV hit returns, the Australian jungle is once again being transformed
Aerial snaps showing workers assembling towering steel structures, platforms and walkways dotted throughout the sprawling site
The pool was once again being filled for the water-based Bushtucker Trials
I'm A Celeb is set to return on November 16, and people are already speculating about who will be flying Down Under
Deep in the Australian jungle, large metal frameworks are being erected, while familiar jungle structures, waterways and elevated platforms can be seen nestled among the dense rainforest
Last year's series launched with 11.3million viewers. Across all platforms, it reached 23.4million people which is 38 per cent of the TV population
Included in the vast set is the main building where much of the crew will be based during the three-week series
It comes after Ant and Dec were criticised by Peta over I'm A Celeb's 'relentless reign of animal exploitation', with Halloween costumes calling out the 'tacky and cruel spectacle'
The show's notorious Bushtucker trials, which see celebrities locked in with live animals and forced to eat creatures, have sparked fierce controversy over the years
The programme's abuse of animals has prompted thousands of complaints to Ofcom, and Peta has called on Ant and Dec to step down from the show
I'm A Celebrity returns this November on ITV, ITVX, STV and STV Player
The programme's abuse of animals has prompted thousands of complaints to Ofcom, and Peta has called on Ant and Dec to step down from the show.
'Unlike the celebrities who volunteer to enter the jungle, animals never sign up to be confined, terrified, or killed for a cheap laugh,' says Peta Vice President of Programmes Elisa Allen.
'PETA's Halloween costumes put Ant and Dec's complicity in the spotlight and call on ITV to cut cruelty from the script and get the animals out of there.'
In 2009, ITV faced prosecution in Australia after contestant Gino D'Acampo killed a rat and cooked the animal for a meal during filming.
The following year, the programme pleaded guilty to two charges of cruelty to animals and paid a fine.
I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! returns this November on ITV, ITVX, STV and STV Player.
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