I'm a Celebrity viewers unsure about 'weird' twist as campmate eviction pending

A twist has been announced on I'm a Celebrity tonight as campmates will begin using a 'money' system. When the celebrities entered the Bushtucker Trial area, Ant and Dec explained: "Jungle life is about to get very expensive."

Ant and Dec told campmates: "Everyday essentials in camp are going to cost you money and to pay for them you’ll have to use your jungle cash card. You’re going to be split into three teams.”

With Dean, Alan and Danny all receiving the most votes from the public, they learnt they would be going head-to-head to take on the Bushtucker trial.

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They then explained that Dean, Alan and Danny would be the first members of each team, with them each having a different colour cash card. The rest of the campmates were then instructed to pick a cash card at random from a bag, with the colour determining what team they were on.

The pink team were Dean, Jane, Coleen and Melvin, blue team were Alan, Tulisa, Richard and Barry and orange team were Danny, Maura, Oti and GK.

Sitting within their allocated teams, they learned they would each be responsible for their team’s money, with each team having their own bank account and cash card. The money would be needed to pay for daily essentials around the camp, as well as food for their dinner.

Tonight's bushtucker trial was taken on by Dean, Alan and Danny, the Rank Bank was their first opportunity to bank cash for their teams. Team blue reigned victorious with £1100, with both the pink and orange teams tied with £500 each.

Fans had mixed opinions on the twist, one fan said on X: "I don’t know if I like this twist or if it’s giving Channel 5 Big Brother #ImACeleb #ImACelebrity." Another added "THE COST OF LIVING CRISIS HAS HIT THE JUNGLE! This twist is SO random and I'm here for it #ImACeleb."

Another commenter said: "I assumed someone would be leaving soon but thought adding teams into this stage seemed weird lol #imaceleb." Another viewer said: "I love that they now have to pay for everything and one of those teams has Dean involved, oh chaos is about to commence."