[1][4] The season was the first to be pre-recorded[5][6] and filmed in Australia, instead of its usual production location in South Africa, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
[1][8] A second trailer, featuring hosts Chris Brown and Julia Morris in a variety of Australian movie parodies, was released on 13 November 2020.
[9][10][4] Celebrity chef and former My Kitchen Rules judge Pete Evans was intended to be a contestant, but was dropped from the show following controversial social media posts, including one that featured the neo-Nazi symbol known as the Black Sun.
Grant had to dress up as a mouse and wear squeaky shoes while carrying a cheese platter to his bed in camp.
If he could avoid the camp's suspicions, by keeping his squeaking quiet, he would be allowed to eat the cheese, biscuits and grapes on the platter.