Declan Donnelly receives urgent medical attention after being bitten by a spider in the Australian jungle while hosting I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
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Declan Donnelly needed medical attention after being bitten by a spider on the set of I’m A Celebrity.
The presenter, 49, was checked out by professionals after noticing a mark on his neck.
On Instagram Live, his co-host Ant McPartlin revealed: ‘We’ve had quite a bit of drama, not just on the show but off the show too, because Dec had a spider on his neck and got bitten by a spider and the medic got involved came to have a look.’
Dec then shared a photo of the spider he was bitten by, saying it jumped on his script before biting his neck.
Dec joked about the incident, saying: ‘The doctor said I was lucky to be alive. If I hadn’t been so fit, healthy and manly, I might not have survived.’
Still, Ant was quick to laugh: “No, she didn’t, she said it was a jumping spider and that was fine.”
Declan Donnelly has revealed he needed medical attention after being bitten by a spider on the set of I’m A Celebrity (pictured with co-host Ant McPartlin)
Dec joked about the incident, saying: ‘The doctor said I was lucky to be alive. If I hadn’t been so fit, healthy and manly, I might not have survived’ (stock image)
Australia is notorious for its high percentage of deadly arachnids, including funnel-web and redback spiders. Both contain enough poison to cause death.
The country is also home to the white-tailed and wolf spiders; Bites from both can cause skin necrosis, commonly called gangrene.
Before the incident, Tulisa Contostavlos became the third contestant to be voted off this year’s show.
The N-Dubz star looked visibly disappointed when her name was called as she found herself in the bottom two alongside Oti Mabuse following the public vote.
The singer left the jungle to join Ant and Dec and appeared deflated as she told the presenters: “I’m not going to lie like it’s hard out there.”
And fans were shocked by the result as they took to Twitter to share their surprise, exclaiming: ‘Ahh Tulisa should have been there much longer’.
They wrote: ‘Ahh Tulisa should have been there much longer’; ‘NOT TULISA’; “I’m surprised Tulisa left tonight? Thought she was definitely a finalist’;
‘F*** OFF I thought Tulisa would last much longer. She was damn luscious, you can tell not enough people are trained in the magic of n-dubz’;
‘Okay, it’s not funny, now get her back in’; ‘I didn’t see that coming’; ‘What do you mean Tulisa was voted out?!’;
‘TULISA IS GONE.’; ‘Barry & Melvin are saved because of Tulisa… excuse me’; ‘Tulisa is gone, but Maura and GK are still there…’; ‘How is it possible that Tulisa wanted third out to win’;
Ant also came into contact with a spider on set earlier this week and shared a video of a huge hunter burrowing into the roof
‘I’ve always liked Tulisa since she first started in N-Dubz, she’s been a great campmate and she’s so sweet’;
Another noted Tulisa’s shocked reaction as they wrote: “Think Tulisa is quite shocked that she’s gone.”
Meanwhile, another fan wrote: “I refuse to believe she got less votes than Melvin.”
Speaking about her time in camp with Ant and Dec, Tulisa said: ‘It doesn’t feel real, I can’t believe what I’ve just done.’
When asked what she has learned about herself, she replied, “I don’t know, I think you just have to stay strong in your beliefs and be yourself.”
While Tulisa ended up in the bottom two with Oti, the singer confessed that the professional dancer is her winner, saying: “She has been my rock, she is one of the most beautiful people I have ever met in my life . She is my soul sister.”
Earlier in the evening, Tulisa became the third contestant to be voted out this year