ITV unveil first teaser for I'm A Celeb 2026 as Ant and Dec are joined by critter-covered carol singers

The first teaser for this year's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! has been released and features Ant and Dec conducting carol singers. As the seven-piece carol belts out the 12 Days Of Christmas, rings and turtle doves are swapped for 'vomit smoothies', '12 tubs of offal' 'two tonnes of mud' and many more of the gross elements of Bushtucker Trials. After the Christmas jumper wearing carol went through the trials, Ant and Dec were seen to turn around with Ant saying: 'That's really got me into this spirit... 50 secondsIsn't it just the most wonderful time of the year?'The show, which is airing on 16 November, is in its 26th season and tongues are wagging over who will be entering - with talk of Love Island's Chloe Burrows heating up. Last year's series launched with 11.3m viewers.. Across all platforms, the 2025 series reached 23.4m people which is 38% of the TV population. The new trailer comes after Ant and Dec were criticised by PETA over I'm A Celeb's 'relentless reign of animal exploitation', with Halloween costumes calling out the 'tacky and cruel spectacle'. The first teaser for this year's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! has been released and features Ant and Dec conducting carol singers As the seven-piece choir belts out the 12 Days Of Christmas, rings and turtle doves are swapped for 'vomit smoothies', '12 tubs of offal' 'two tonnes of mud' and many more of the gross elements of Bushtucker Trials After the Christmas jumper wearing choir went through the trials, Ant and Dec were seen to turn around with Ant saying: 'That's really got me into this spirit... 50 secondsIsn't it just the most wonderful time of the year?'The show's notorious Bushtucker trials, which see celebrities locked in with live animals and forced to eat creatures such as spiders, mealworms and cockroaches, have sparked fierce controversy over the years.PETA have long campaigned against the show, saying that 'animal abuse is not entertainment'.Now, with Spooky season upon us, the animal rights group have created new Ant and Dec costumes that turn the I'm a Celeb presenters into perpetrators at a grisly crime scene.The costumes call out the duo's long-running cruelty towards frogs, crocodiles, spiders, rats, insects, and other animals who have been killed, eaten, and subjected to stressful stunts for the show's eating trials.The costume, retailing at £95, is now available to order on the PETA website. All proceeds will benefit PETA's work to end animal exploitation.But behind the Halloween spoof is a history of real-life horrors, PETA claims.The ITV show has confined frogs and other animals in inescapable chambers with screaming, flailing contestants during the trials, and served animals' genitals, organs, and other body parts as food.The programme's abuse of animals has prompted thousands of complaints to Ofcom, and PETA has called on Ant and Dec to step down from the show. The trailer will send tongues wagging over the possible line-up The new trailer comes after Ant and Dec were criticised by PETA over I'm A Celeb's 'relentless reign of animal exploitation', with Halloween costumes calling out the 'tacky and cruel spectacle''Unlike the celebrities who volunteer to enter the jungle, animals never sign up to be confined, terrified, or killed for a cheap laugh,' says PETA Vice President of Programmes Elisa Allen.'PETA's Halloween costumes put Ant and Dec's complicity in the spotlight and call on ITV to cut cruelty from the script and get the animals out of there.'In 2009, ITV faced prosecution in Australia after contestant Gino D'Acampo killed a rat and cooked the animal for a meal during filming.The following year, the programme pleaded guilty to two charges of cruelty to animals and paid a fine.I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! returns this November on ITV, ITVX, STV and STV Player The show's notorious Bushtucker trials, which see celebrities locked in with live animals and forced to eat creatures such as spiders, mealworms and cockroaches, have sparked fierce controversy over the years (pictured Harry Redknapp in 2018) The programme's abuse of animals has prompted thousands of complaints to Ofcom, and PETA has called on Ant and Dec to step down from the show (pictured Ferne McCann in 2015)