The first series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! was broadcast on ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

 from 25 August to 8 September 2002. Ant & Dec

Ant & Dec

Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly , known collectively as Ant & Dec, are an English comedy and TV presenting duo from Newcastle upon Tyne, England...

 presented the main show on ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

, whilst Louise Lougham hosted the spin-off show I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here... Now! on ITV2

ITV2

ITV2 is a 24 hour, free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998, and is available on digital television via satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial platforms. The channel has the...

. The winner of this series was radio DJ Tony Blackburn

Tony Blackburn

Tony Blackburn is an English disc jockey, who broadcast on the "pirate" stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s and was the first disc jockey to broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1967. In 2002 he was the winner of the ITV reality TV programme I'm a Celebrity.....

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Contestants

The show began with 8 celebrity contestants.

Celebrity	Famous for	Status
Uri Geller Uri Geller Uri Geller is a self-proclaimed psychic known for his trademark television performances of spoon bending and other supposed psychic effects. Throughout the years, Geller has been accused of using simple conjuring tricks to achieve the effects of psychokinesis and telepathy...	Israeli paranormalist	Eliminated 1st
Nigel Benn Nigel Benn Nigel Benn , known as "The Dark Destroyer", is a British former boxer who held world titles in the middleweight and super middleweight divisions....	Former boxer Boxing Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...	Eliminated 2nd
Darren Day Darren Day Darren Day , is an English actor, singer and television presenter, well known for his West End theatre starring roles.-Early life:His paternal grandfather was a support and warm-up act for George Formby...	Actor, singer and television presenter	Eliminated 3rd
Rhona Cameron Rhona Cameron Rhona Cameron is a Scottish comedian. She rose to prominence via the stand-up comedy circuit, and became a regular on British TV in the 1990s.-Television career:...	Scottish Scotland Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...  comedian	Eliminated 4th
Nell McAndrew Nell McAndrew Nell McAndrew is an English glamour model.-Career:...	Glamour model	Eliminated 5th
Christine Hamilton Christine Hamilton Christine Hamilton is a British television personality and author, and the wife of former British Member of Parliament Neil Hamilton who was Minister for Corporate Affairs between 1992-1994....	Television personality Celebrity A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media...  and author	Eliminated 6th
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson Tara Palmer-Tomkinson Tara Palmer-Tomkinson also known as T P-T, is an English socialite, "it girl", television presenter, columnist and model...	Socialite, "it girl It girl "It girl" is a term for a young woman who possess the quality "It", absolute attraction.The early usage of the concept "it" in this meaning may be seen in a story by Rudyard Kipling: "It isn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just 'It'."... ", television presenter Celebrity A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media...  and model	Runner Up
Tony Blackburn Tony Blackburn Tony Blackburn is an English disc jockey, who broadcast on the "pirate" stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s and was the first disc jockey to broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1967. In 2002 he was the winner of the ITV reality TV programme I'm a Celebrity.....	Disc jockey	Winner

Results and elimination

Indicates the winner celebrity

Indicates the runner-up celebrity

Indicates that the celebrity was safe from elimination

Indicates that the celebrity received the least votes

Indicates that the celebrity was eliminated

Indicates that the celebrity was in the bottom 2 or 3 in the public vote

Day 9	Day 10	Day 11	Day 12	Day 13	Day 14	Day 15 The Final
Tony Blackburn	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Winner 55%
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Runner-up 45%
Christine Hamilton	Safe	Safe	Bottom Two	Safe	Bottom Two	Bottom	Eliminated (Day 14)
Nell McAndrew	Safe	Safe	Safe	Safe	Bottom Two	Eliminated (Day 13)
Rhona Cameron	Safe	Bottom Two	Safe	Bottom	Eliminated (Day 12)
Darren Day	Bottom Two	Safe	Bottom Two	Eliminated (Day 11)
Nigel Benn	Safe	Bottom Two	Eliminated (Day 10)
Uri Geller	Bottom Two	Eliminated (Day 9)
Bottom two/three	Darren Uri	Nigel Rhona	Christine Darren	Not Revealed	Christine Nell	No bottom two/three
Eliminated	Uri Geller	Nigel Benn	Darren Day	Rhona Cameron	Nell McAndrew	Christine Hamilton	Tara Palmer-Tomkinson
							Tony Blackburn

Bushtucker Trials

The contestants take part in daily trials to earn food

The public voted for who they wanted to face the trial

The contestants decided who did which trial

The trial was compulsory and no-one decided who took part

Trial Number	Date	Name of Trial	Celebrity/ies Taking Part	Number of Stars	Notes
1	25 August 2002	Bug Shower	Tara		None
2	26 August 2002	Buried Alive	Rhona		None
3	27 August 2002	Eat the bugs	Uri		None
4	28 August 2002	Snake Disaster	Nigel		None
5	29 August 2002	Smelly Swamp	Nigel		None
6	30 August 2002	Cockroach Coffin	Nell		None
7	31 August 2002	Pass The Snakes	Tony		None
8	1 September 2002	The Terrors Of A Tunnel	Christine		None
9	2 September 2002	Petrifying Pit	Nell		None
10	3 September 2002	Can You Cross It	Tony		None
11	4 September 2002	Popping Balloons	Tara		None
12	5 September 2002	The Bug Bog	Tara/Tony		None

Total number of Bushtucker Trials done by each participant:

Tony	Tara	Christine	Nell	Rhona	Darren	Nigel	Uri
3	3	1	2	1	0	2	1

Ratings

All ratings are taken from the UK Programme Ratings website, BARB

Barb

Barb may refer to:* A backward-facing point on a fish hook or similar implement, rendering extraction from the victim's flesh more difficult* Wind barbs for each station on a map of reported weather conditions...

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Show	Date	Official rating (millions)	Weekly Rank on ITV1 ITV1 ITV1 is a generic brand that is used by twelve franchises of the British ITV Network in the English regions, Wales, southern Scotland , the Isle of Man and the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. The ITV1 brand was introduced by Carlton and Granada in 2001, alongside the regional identities of their...
Day 1/2	25 August 2002	6.71	No. 13
Day 2/3	26 August 2002	6.89	No. 16
Day 3/4	27 August 2002	6.14	No. 21
Day 4/5	28 August 2002	6.46	No. 19
Day 5/6	29 August 2002	7.01	No. 15
Day 6/7	30 August 2002	7.23	No. 13
Day 7/8	31 August 2002	6.70	No. 18
Day 8/9	1 September 2002	7.27	No. 12
Day 9/10	2 September 2002	7.97	No. 14
Day 10/11	3 September 2002	7.98	No. 13
Day 11/12	4 September 2002	8.72	No. 11
Day 12/13	5 September 2002	7.89	No. 15
Day 13/14	6 September 2002	7.66	No. 18
Day 14/15	7 September 2002	8.09	No. 12
Day 15/16	8 September 2002	10.95	No. 4

Series average = 7.57 million viewers.

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