Doing the big shop has never been so complicated
You’ve been to the supermarket and forgotten one key essential, and you face the long trek there and back to pick it up. Usually it’s butter, bread, or (for me) Frazzles. Generally speaking in the UK, it’s not any form of insect.
27. One year the celebs were technically *too good* at the trials
The 2013 cohort over performed so prolifically in the trails, that producers ran out of Bushtucker food to give them.
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It was a bit awkward, and they had to send someone on an emergency run to their suppliers.
26. They have to breed bugs especially for the trials
There wasn’t much danger of them running out of creepy crawlies, though. That year their bug breeder produced over 150,000 crickets, a quarter of a million cockroaches and a staggering two and a half million meal worms.
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Once they bred 1.5 million flies for a single task, all of whom were ironically unable to fly due to their unusual breeding conditions.
25. The year they ran out of spiders locals could BYO for cash
If – like me – you’re struggling even to look at that photo, you’ll be horrified to learnt that when the show ran out of spiders, locals were paid five dollars a pop to catch and donate the eight legged freaks.
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