I'm A Celebrity Dean McCullough: Radio 1 DJ in hot water again after disappearing from duties

Northern Ireland's Dean McCullough was in a bit of hot water in the latest episode of I'm A Celebrity..Get Me Out Of Here.

As tensions simmer, The Radio 1 DJ was tasked with fetched water for the 12 celebrity campmates on ITV's annual reality TV show set in the Australian jungle.

Alongside Kiss FM presenter Melvin Odoom, Dean has to make sure the camp has enough water, keeping it topped up at all times.

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But Melvin admitted he is growing tired of having to keep asking Dean to help and branded him a 'child' as he huffed and puffed about having to do his assigned chores yet again.

Melvin, 44, fumed: "I'm really aware of trying to stay on top of it [the water]. But I actually think it's almost like another chore to ask Dean to help. It's like telling a kid to tidy up his bedroom. Whereas if I was doing it with someone like Dan he would just clock that I need help and just help me. The effort is asking Dean to help. That's the long part of it."

Things got too much for new camp leader Danny Jones in the end and the McFly singer stepped in to tell Dean about himself. It comes as Melvin continued with his water duties - with Dean nowhere to be seen.

Melvin told his fellow campmates: “This is a lone man situation, he’s [Dean's] very good at disappearing.” When tasked with carrying one pot of water back to camp, Dean moaning again, telling his fellow campmates: “That is no joke, the pot is so heavy.”

Shocking the other campmates, Dean then refused to do it anymore and said: “I hate doing the water guys I’ve said it, I’m just gonna have to hold my hands up, it’s an awful job and I hate it, and I don’t wanna do it anymore. Guys I can’t, it’s not for me."

As he continued, Danny eventually snapped and said: “Just get on with it mate.” As Melvin encouraged Dean to carry on fetching water with him, and the camp told him to adopt a positive attitude, Dean said: “Look, no beef, no drama, I just hate my job."

Melvin joked: “Listen, your new name is Houdini because you like to disappear." The camp descended into laughter as Oti exclaimed: “Shots fired!” while Dean was left too shocked to speak.

Meanwhile, campmates have been left terrified after an unwelcome visitor broke into their quarters.

During the night, the stars of the 2024 series had an extra campmate in the form of a rat - who was attracted by some remnants of the camp's slap-up dinner. Suspecting it was the previous night's dinner of mud crab, which may have tempted the rat into camp, Richard updated his fellow campmates at breakfast.

He said: “We had a visitor last night, a little four legged visitor with a tail, a rat.”

Explaining they had left some of the stuff out, including a frying pan and some cups, he reminded the camp to put everything away properly before going to sleep.

Dean said in the Bush Telegraph: “It’s actually Jane and Tulisa’s job to make sure that the pots are in the trunk, so when the reverend was telling everyone to put the pots away otherwise we’ll get rats, what he really meant was, Jane and Tulisa, put the pots away.”

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