I’m A Celeb’s Scarlette Douglas reveals what it’s REALLY like sleeping with poisonous snakes in jungle camp

This year’s campmates are two weeks into jungle life and the latest series of I’m A Celebrity is already shaping up to be one of the most dramatic of all time.

With both Jamie Lynn Spears and Grace Dent having ended their time Down Under, heated debates and tense exchanges between Nella Rose, Nigel Farage and Fred Sirieix, there hasn’t been a dull moment in camp.

But what happens in the moments that viewers don’t see as the celebrities go about their daily lives in the camp?

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline from Tombola’s critter challenge event, last year’s campmate Scarlette Douglas revealed what it’s really like living in camp among all the spiders and dangerous snakes.

The TV star revealed that you are often closer to poisonous than you think as she told how the hissing of a snake woke her up while she was sleeping in her hammock.

The TV star revealed you’re often closer to poisonous than you think as she told how a hissing snake woke her up while she was sleeping in her hammock

The former Place In The Sun host was thrust straight into jungle life when she was woken up by someone shouting “Snake!” on her very first night at camp. called out. Snake!’

She told MailOnline: ‘I woke up asking, “What’s going on?” aAnd two rangers came in.”

The television star then explained how rangers are always ready to protect the stars from anything unwanted.

She added: “So we’ll have rangers come out if something dangerous comes into the camp, and we’ll be told to stand back so the rangers can come in, get them out and get rid of them.

“So I see these two rangers come in and you don’t see this on the show, so everyone just thinks, ‘Oh, she just saw a little snake and she rolled everyone back to sleep.’

“But before that the two rangers came in and they have a sort of T-shaped bar. So they tried to pick up the snake.”

As she explained their game plan, she continued, “And what they [the rangers] what I later discovered is that they lift a snake and freeze it.

“The snake then thinks it’s a tree or something, so it freezes itself and because it stiffens, they can then drop it in a bag, take it and go.”

The former Place In The Sun host was thrust straight into jungle life when she was woken up by someone shouting “Snake!” on her very first night at camp. called out. Snake!’

Yet, on this particular occasion, it seemed that this snake was prepared to do battle.

Scarlette said: ‘They’ve tried this about three or four times, and they seem scared of the snake. I said, “It’s not even that big of a snake, just put it in the bag or I’ll wake up and do it, whatever.”

‘Finally the snake, I’m sitting in my hammock and I hear it hissing loudly.

“It’s coming to me a lot faster because they keep dropping it and it’s obviously getting worse. They quickly grab it, put it in the bag and take it out.

“And then the next day I found out it was a red-bellied snake, which is apparently venomous.”

Scarlette assured that the team is equipped with the necessary medicines to treat any participants in the unlikely event that they are bitten.

“They had the anti-venom there, but if I got bit I would have been fine.”

After I left the jungle, Scarlette went to Soccer Aid where she met one of the producers of I’m A Celeb.

“He told me that the night before at the VIP camp, and I think they saw two or three big death adders the night before.

“So there were a lot of crew members there because they were scared in case the death adders came back, because I think they would have gotten us very quickly.

‘But you’re safe in there. I’ve never heard of anything happening that was really bad for anyone and thank God I’m still here to tell the story.”

Scarlette assured that the team is equipped with the necessary medicines to treat any participants in the unlikely event that they are bitten

On why she got involved with the Tombola event, Scarlette said: “First of all, since I’ve been on the show, I love everything about that programme. I’m looking at it right now too.

‘The [Tombola] It seemed like a pretty cool game, so it was fun to actually be here and physically play it.

‘Just like Tombola is a gambling company they do many things to ensure that people are aware of what can happen when they gamble.

‘I’m fine with that, because they are not only trying to abolish another platform, but also want to make sure that people are safe.’