I'm a Celebrity's Babatúndé Aléshé playing Exeter in March 2023

After two years holed up in a castle in North Wales, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here has been able to return to the rain forests of New South Wales in Australia. Two decades after the first show, Ant and Dec welcomed the celebrities over the weekend. They are now preparing to face a series of excruciating ordeals. The show has taken up celebrity status in its own right. Fans can buy branded merchandise from t-shirts to mess tins and backpacks. In addition, they can also play a slot version of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. The game has been developed by Microgaming, who is responsible for some of the best online slots featured on online-slot.co.uk

Sometimes the most challenging part of the ordeal is living alongside the other contestants. Comedian Babatúndé Aléshé will be hoping to keep spirits high in the camp, although the opening episode has not seen him getting off to a flying start.

Babatúndé Aléshé is a comedian, actor, and writer who has risen to fame through the stand-up comedy circuit. He confirmed his top dog status through his appearances on Celebrity Gogglebox with his partner in crime, Mo Gilligan. Whether he triumphs in the jungle or falters in the face of the Bushtucker trails, he will appear in Exeter on March 12th,2023, at the Barnfield Theatre. He won Best Newcomer at the Black Entertainment Comedy Awards and the Amused Moose National Comic Award in 2019. The Exeter gig is part of a national debut tour, and he'll be entertaining audiences with stories of his family and fatherhood.

Babatúndé will be familiar to audiences from his appearances in shows like Doctor Who and Eastenders. He has also appeared on Romesh Ranganathan's rebooted version of The Weakest Link and The Jonathon Ross Stand Up Club. In addition, he was featured in the Channel 4 documentary Black, British and Funny. His fellow camp inhabitants will have to hope his humour chimes with theirs. However, he has not got off to the most promising start on the show, as he failed to complete the first challenge.

In fact, he did not just fail to complete the challenge; he did not even manage to start it. Instead, he called out, "I'm a Celebrity …. Get Me Out of Here", before attempting the scary plank challenge, which was suspended 32 storeys up.

When Ant explained what he and two other contestants, Jill Scott and Charlene White, had to do, Aléshé was already saying that his eyes were watering from the wind. They were meant to walk to the end of the planks and then step onto a ledge at the very end. Ant told them they had to lean forward and use a rope behind themselves to stop them from falling off.

Dec then told them, "There are three stars up for grabs here, each one of them is worth a meal for the camp tonight. You need to remain on the ledge for 60 seconds. When the time's up, in order to win your star, all you have to do is to let go of the rope. Then gravity will take over".

It all became too much for the comedian when Ant added, "If you fall from the ledge before your 60 seconds is up, you'll automatically lose your star."

It is predicted that Babatúndé Aléshé is going to be a hot favourite to be nominated for the Bushtucker trials for which the series has become so famous. Fortunately for him, while he may not have won the audience over to his side in this challenge, another contestant is likely to be unpopular for other reasons. The ex-health Secretary and MP for West Suffolk, Matt Hancock, will also join the jungle camp.

Hancock's constituents do not seem to be too impressed with the news. On hearing the news, Andy Drummond, chair of the Newmarket Conservatives, said, "I'm looking forward to him eating a kangaroo's penis. Quote me. You can quote me that"