Holly Willoughby knows what an early start looks like thanks to her job presenting This Morning – but she’s in for a new world of pain when the new series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! kicks off.
With just over two weeks to go before the I’m A Celebrity 2018 start date , Holly, 37, will be frantically packing up all the bug spray she can find ahead of her gruelling 16-hour work days in the jungle.
She and co-host Declan Donnelly will have to be up way before the crack of dawn thanks to the different time zone – while the campmates have a relatively normal day full of tasks, challenges, mealtimes and Bush Tucker Trials, the presenters will need to wake up at 1.30am to get hours of rehearsals in before the celebs get up.
A source told the Sun : "Everyone thinks Holly has got the easiest job but in reality it’s actually a really full on gig.
"She will have to start her day at 1.30am to make sure she is at the camp by 2.30am, which is when the work really starts."
Not only will they launch straight into meetings with producers, Holly and Dec will also have to watch back all the footage captured of the campmates while they were sleeping – and be filled in on all the behind-the-scenes gossip.
They then go into rehearsals and script-reading for the next few hours before heading into hair and makeup to film bits for the ITV2 spinoff show.
By 9.30am – eight hours after they wake up – Holly and Dec will be ready to film the trial with whichever unlucky star is picked.
It can take up to three hours to film one trial thanks to health and safety regulations, explains the insider.
"Viewers only see the finished product but in reality it takes ages to get ready for the trial – there are safety briefings, runthroughs, health checks and various other things to make sure everything is perfect when the celebrity takes part – and Holly will have to be there for all of it," they went on.
After filming wraps, the two exhausted hosts will be allowed a couple of hours of free time in the afternoon, which they’ll spend with their respective families – Holly with her husband Dan and their three children, and Dec with his wife Ali Astall and their newborn daughter Isla.
Dinner is around 4pm and then the presenters are packed off to bed at 6pm ready for their fresh start in the early hours.
Holly and Dec will be out in Australia for about a week before the launch show on November 18 and a few days after the series ends – and they won’t get a single day off inbetween.
But the gruelling work schedule is sweetened by a large paycheck – Holly’s is reportedly in the six-figure region – and the plush £1,800 a night apartment inside the five-star Palazzo Versace hotel where she’ll be staying.
The accommodation bill for Holly’s family alone comes to a whopping £63,000, and ITV is expected to fork out for tutors for Holly and Dan’s nine-year-old son Harry and seven-year-old daughter Belle so they don’t fall behind on their schoolwork.
*I’m A Celebrity kicks off on Sunday November 18 at 9pm on ITV
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