I’m A Celebrity’s Nella and Frankie fail trial amid major show shake-up

I’m A Celebrity’s Frankie Dettori and Nella Rose were chosen by the public to take on the trial Dreaded Beds – but ended up going back to camp with nothing.

In a shake-up to the normal trials, the pair were competing for coins this time around and not the usual stars. Arriving at The Misery Motel for this Trial, host Dec explained: “In this Trial, you’re playing to win coins. Inside the Motel are 30 gold coins. These coins can be spent after the Trial at the jungle vending machine. There you can buy stars for meals for camp. You can also buy treats and other things. The more coins you’ve got, the more you can buy at the vending machine.”

Ant added: “This is Dreaded Beds. You’ll both enter a room each and lie down on the bed inside. In one room there are a number of four digit codes, the celebrity in this room has to find the codes and then shout them to the celebrity in the next room. They will then use these codes to unlock the boxes that have the gold coins in them. There are 10 boxes, each box has three gold coins in; that means there are 30 gold coins on offer in this trial.

“However, this is a Bushtucker Trial, so you’ll not be sleeping alone in there. And the celebrity in the first room will be in total darkness, so you’ll have to feel around for the codes. And, of course, you don’t have to do this Trial, you can say no and make your way back to camp, but you’ll be going back empty handed.”

Choosing their roles, Frankie said: “Ok, I’ll go pitch black.” Dec said: “Let’s get you checked in!” Frankie, 52, lay in the dark as snakes were added around him. He said: “That’s not nice!”

As Frankie shouted numbers over to 26-year-old Nella, Dec encouraged her to keep trying all of the padlocks: “Try them all Nella, try them all!” While he waited for Nella, Frankie commented on what he could feel around him: “I’ve got some friends here. Nice slimy things.”

Frankie said at one point: “One is trying to get into my pants, that’s nice. Move my baby. Actually… it’s in my pants, I think.” Encouraging Nella to try all the padlocks with each code, Ant said to Nella: “You’ve got to try as many as you can, as quick as you can.”

But as time ran out, they finished the Trial with no coins won. Dec noted to Nella: “You weren’t too bothered about everything that was in there with you?” Nella said: “I was focussing on the coins and stuff so I was kind of like tunnel vision, but that didn’t work, clearly…”

On the way back to camp, the pair went to the vending machine. Frankie said: “This is what we could have got!” Nella listed off: “Tony’s luxury item, tea bags… everyone’s luxury items basically. I feel devastated.” As they walked away, Frankie said: “So close, but so far. Hopefully we get another chance.”

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