Ant and Dec spill I’m A Celeb secrets from daring escapes to breaking phone ban

Ant and Dec have spilled the secrets of their time on I’m A Celebrity and named the stars who broke the rules and got away with it.

The Geordie duo have opened up about their time on the jungle show in their new book Once Upon A Tyne.

During their years of presenting, the pair have encountered many stars breaking the IAC rules – and they’ve now named names.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s dad Stanley Johnson was revealed as one of the runwaways.

Ant and Dec, both 44, confirmed the former politician escaped his minder and ran away to the beach before going into the camp.

In the book, they explain that on arrival in Australia all the stars are provided with a chaperone who looks after them and keeps an eye on them at all times.

They are supposed to stop the stars going rogue and leaving the hotel, but Stanley made a break for it.

Dec wrote: “A few of them [the celebrities] always manage to give the chaperone the slip.

“Boris Johnson’s dad Stanley ran away to go to the beach…”

The telly star went on to reveal US signing Caitlyn Jenner also did a runner, adding she “legged it to the shops”.

However, it was former boxer Amir Khan who came up with the most ingenious plot.

The stars all have their phones taken off them after they land and they are not allowed any contact with the outside world.

Dec claimed Amir befriended a worker at a bakery close to the luxurious Versace hotel and persuaded him to let him use his phone to make an illicit call.

He wrote: “Amir Khan managed to befriend a boy who worked in a bakery across the road from the Versace hotel and he persuaded him to let Amir use his phone.”

Ant then joked: “That’s the level of determination that makes you a boxing champion.”

They also divulged one huge secret that IAC viewers don’t get to experience – the camp’s putrid smell.

The pair explained the celebrities start to stink after a few days without a proper wash so the whole set smells like body odour.

It was made worse last year when the jungle camp fire was replaced with a gas stove due to the raging bush fires in Australia.

Dec wrote: “They absolutely stink. The lot of them. It’s not their fault; they’ve been bathing in dirty water and sitting round a camp fire for weeks on end, but every year they really do smell very, very bad.”

Ant added: “And the 2019 series was even worse than nnormal. Because of the Australian bushfires, the campmates had a gas burner, rather than an open fire.

“Normally, the campfire can conceal some of the BO, but not that year.”

Dec went on: “It was like when the smoking ban came in for pubs. Once the smell of smoke disappeared you realised one thing: ‘This pub stinks'”.