Panto Joe prepares to enter Chamber of Horror
Published: 11:58, 17 November 2008
Poor Joe Swash.
The former EastEnders star, set for Medway pantoland next month, turned pale when I'm a Celebrity presenters Ant and Dec confirmed just how much viewers love to see him squirm.
On last night's show Joe looked less than happy to discover the public had voted for him yet again to take part in tonight's bushtucker trial - Chambers of Horror.
He will go head-to-head with Robert Kilroy-Silk.
Joe's fellow camp mates tried to console him by telling him he was probably chosen because he is so entertaining when taking part in the trials.
It will be the third challenge he has had to face since entering the Australian rainforest on Saturday.
So far viewers have seen Joe screaming loudly as he plunged his hand into tanks filled with eels, scorpions and rats to retrieve a star for the chance to win his fellow campers a decent meal.
He beat ex-Blue band member Simon Webbe and won the camp a meal of bangers of mash.
Last night viewers saw Joe and Page 3 girl Nicola McLean battling it out in the 'I Scream' challenge which saw them eating Bush Tucker served from an ice cream van.
There were five rounds and taking turns they both had the option to choose the first meal presented to them or pass to their opponent.
Joe gagged as he chomped his way through two scorpions, three cockroaches and a witchetty grub - but he passed when faced with eating a Bush Fowl foot exclaiming 'That looks like a hand!'
The final dish was a blind course, both celebrities had to pick from a "whatever's on the stick" or "whatever's in the tub". Swash chose the stick and was presented with a crocodile's penis and testicles.
He was almost sick as he put it in his mouth but he managed to complete the trial.
After eating all four dishes Nicola had to swallow a kangaroo testicle to win.
As she struggled to eat it Swash rubbed her back until she completed the challenge.
When Joe returned to the camp he told his team mates: "I didn't do it man. I had to eat croc ****."
• Viewers will find out who won the trial in tonight’s showing of I’m a Celebrity...Get Me out of Here on ITV1 at 9pm.
Joe is appearing in Cinderella at the Central Theatre in Chatham from Friday, December 12.
For more details, call 01634 338338 or visit www.medway.gov.uk/theatres.
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