Revealed: Beauty secrets of I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!
Channel 10 has confirmed it has allowed celebrities to wear makeup in the South African jungle on reality show I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here.
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Channel 10 has confirmed it has allowed celebrities to wear makeup in the South African jungle on reality show I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here.
Questions were raised earlier this week when eagle eyed viewers noted veteran entertainer Rhonda Burchmore was wearing what looked to be foundation and mascara.
“Why is Rhonda covered in makeup? Thought there was no make up allowed? Isn’t that contraband?” one Twitter user wrote, another adding: “Has Rhonda got makeup on?”
When contacted, Ten initially declined to comment although later issued a statement confirming contestants had been allowed special dispensation to wear makeup.
“We have granted permission for one of our celebrities to wear tinted moisturiser/sunscreen due to a medical condition,” a spokeswoman said. “In the spirit of fairness, we gave all campers permission to do the same.”
The subject has been on contestants minds in their first days in the jungle with Burchmore last night drawing her eyebrows on with charcoal from the camp fire and British reality star Charlotte Crosby using cooking tins to straighten her hair.
The premise of I’m A Celebrity is that contestants must live on basic rations of food — beans and rice mostly — without any creature comforts from home.
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Earlier this season, contestants gave up contraband items they had snuck into the camp, including salt, spices, an eyelash brush, a sleep mask, knives and photographs.
Producers making exceptions for celebrities to hide secret items is nothing new to the show however, with several notable examples from previous seasons kept from viewers.
Anthony Mundine and Danny Green were permitted protein shakes out the back in the medical hut during their stints in the jungle. Rugby league great Paul Harragon was given energy bars to help him compete in challenges and singer Havana Brown was also allowed a sunscreen concealer to cover a scar on her face.
Former One Nation politician David Oldfield was allowed a daily ‘special diet’ that included peppercorn seeds, chocolate, tomato sauce sachets and raw vegetables. And of course, Ten was forced to confirm cricket great Shane Warne was allowed to smoke when the cameras were not on him during the second season in 2016.
Brendan Fevola and Anthony Callea are also understood to have smoked that season. In other years, contestants were encouraged to vape as an alternative to smoking.
“We will not comment on individuals. But, yes, some people are smoking, as they do in the UK version of the show,” a Network Ten spokeswoman said at the time.