I'm A Celebrity 2019!

~ 18 ~

'You know what Caitlyn. This is your leadership.' Everyone laughs as we all change T-shirt's into our cursed ones.

'But hey. Purples my favourite colour so.' I put on my best LA accent and dance around a little. I put on my last clean bikini, my nicest one.

My In A Seashell Power White bikini, gifted to me in the summer by Leigh, one of my best friends I met through the industry. Jordan having dated Jesy, Sam dating Jade. We always used to hang out and to this day Leigh Anne and I were still close as anything. Always going shopping, having sleepovers like back in the day, always going to each other's tours and always supporting each other.

But as I slipped my new khaki shorts on, Andy read a note. 'Celebrities. All cursed Celebs will be eating rice and beans.' He goes on to say exactly the same as what Ant and Dec said. Then summarises like his usual Andy self.

'Basically if you don't free yourself you're on rice and beans all day.' I laugh lightly, hi fiving him for no other reason than he's just a great, hilarious guy and he's had me howling every day he's been in here so far with his one liners.

We then head out the four of us, walking into a clearing with 4 water tanks.

'So this is the sinister circus. And you four are going to be competing as only two of you will free yourself from the curse and get to eat tonight.' Dec tells us.

'Only 2!?' My voice squeaks. Oh god. So half of us were gonna be eating rice and beans anyway.

'The aim of this trial is to get out of your escapologist tank as quickly as possible. And you'll start the trial shackled inside the tank.' I keep the fact that I'd watched Ash do this about 80 times quiet. It was every man for themselves now.

'So first you'll have to undo your shackle using the 10 keys on the ladder. Only one of those keys will undo the lock. Next, you need to unlock the four combination padlocks on the grid at the top.' The more I looked at the tank the tinker it got and the more my breathing picked up. Until Roman nudged me, checking I was alright with a nod.

'The codes you need are at the bottom of the tank there on the reverse of those black plaques. So you're gonna have to dive down, memorise the codes and then head back up and try them on the locks.' We all turn to stare at the 4 black marks amongst the eels and snakes and stuff. Fantastic.

'Now the first two celebrities to make it out of the tank and ring their bell will rid themselves of the curse and will be eating tonight. The two losing celebrities will stay cursed and they'll be going hungry tonight.'

'So. So we're just letting ourselves down.' Ian smiles and I laugh a little. Only Ian could joke at a time this tense.

'And. As you can see. You're not gonna be alone in the tanks.' I shake my head. 'We probably ate one of their mums the other night.' I nod sarcastically at the eels and everyone laughs. 'Are we all up for it?' 'No I'm not up for it. But I'll try.' Ian laughs.

'It's the panic of being in a small space and being under water. That's gonna be.' I huff the air out my cheeks, shaking my head. 'And the size of that eel mate.' Roman gags and I laugh, both of us flapping. 'Hope you're in that one.' I mumble, watching as he glares at me.

'You each wanna do this?' We all nod, being put into position.

And Roman gets the big eel. 'Hahaha.' I smirk evilly, me in the tank next to him, then Jackie, then Wrighty.

'Okay you can all enter the tanks and go half way down the ladder.' All 4 of us step in. 'OH MY.' It is ice cold. Like full on. Worse than tour ice baths. Then they close the lids. 'Nooo. Ahhhhhh.' Me and Roman joke around on the end, Ian joining in seen as all the tanks were clear and we could see into each other's.