She finished joint 7th Prior to the official announcement of any of the celebrity participants, Nadine Dorries, the UK Conservative Party MP for Mid Bedfordshire, was suspended from her party for failing to tell the Chief Whip she could be absent from the House of Commons and her constituents for a month as she was to appear on the reality TV show and heavily criticised for opting to take part.
^1 In order to win immunity from the first public vote all celebrities took part in a task called "Bush Buddies".
They will then take part in a 'Bed Bugs' task, in which the first five who accumulate the most time in the beds will be given immunity, while the other six will face the public vote.
The other celebrities were declared safe and on Day 17 both Eric and Colin faced a bushtucker trial called "The Panic Rooms".
The contestants take part in daily trials to earn food ^1 The celebrities were separated into two teams, based on how they travelled into the jungle.
In a similar style to the celebrity chest, one member from each camp (Croc Creek and Snake Rock) will go head-to-head to win the 'Dingo Dollars'.
Bold indicates that the celebrity won the challenge On the seventh day of the show, the celebrities were split into six pairs for the Bush Buddy Challenges, these were; Ashley and Hugo, Brian and David, Charlie and Linda, Colin and Rosemary, Eric and Nadine, Helen and Limahl.
For the first four days of the show, the celebrities were split between two separate camps known as "Croc Creek" and "Snake Rock".
Then Dec and Ant announced the first Bushtucker Trial – Special Delivery, in which a celebrity from each team had to search for stars in a parcel shaped box by putting their hands into different compartments.
It was time for Helen (Croc Creek) and Nadine (Snake Rock) to face the first public voted bushtucker trial – Bug Burial.
The trial entailed surviving 10 minutes underground with jungle creatures in a locked coffin, before escaping to win food.
While lasting longer, Nadine only managed four minutes and therefore also gained no food for Snake Rock – meaning both camps were going to have to survive on basic rations of rice and beans for the next 24 hours.
It was then time for Charlie and Ashley to face the latest Dingo Dollar Challenge, which was an exploration task through the jungle.
This involved them going underwater with a crocodile and putting the heads in domes, full of water creatures and collecting stars in their mouth.
After much encouraging from Ant, Dec and the crew, she decided to try, but immediately stopped and bailed out as soon as the klaxon sounded, therefore winning no meals for camp.
In this trial (named 'Deadly Delivery'), Helen had to put her head in a box full of different things and do a maze beneath her to move across to the other side, where she finished.
Ashley paired up with Hugo, Brian with David, Charlie with Linda, Colin with Rosemary, Eric with Nadine and Helen with Limahl.
It was announced that the top five (immune) celebrities were Limahl, Hugo, Rosemary, Ashley and Linda, which meant Charlie, Colin, David, Eric, Helen and Nadine, were facing the vote-off.
Eric and Hugo took part and the challenge was to listen to various vinyl records and hear a number at the end which would open a lock.
The celebrities also did a challenge, involving answering general knowledge questions to get a certain number of minutes of a phone call to someone.
The trial (named Drown and Out) involved staying in a glass cabin with rising water, unscrewing pipes unleashing creatures to find stars.
Ashley and David were sent to Snake Rock for an announcement, and were set as 'Camp Meddlers' (like Anthony & Dougie being Camp Traitors last year).
In the new trial (named 'The Great Escape'), Eric had to push himself along in a minecart on his back collecting stars with various distractions.
He, unlike other celebrities, remained calm throughout the trial, managing to collect five out of a possible six stars, which the camp agreed was well-done.
This year Ant & Dec also announced that voting figures were extremely close, and the celebrity in the lead had now switched.
[37] Tim Montgomerie of the ConservativeHome website speculated that she might manage to "present an image of a Tory MP that defies some of the popular pre-conceptions and caricatures" while Lembit Öpik tweeted: "Good on Nadine Dorries for the jungle if she's really going in.
That day, Helen took on one of the show's most elaborate tasks yet, with a five-room hotel full of bugs for her to navigate around in the search for stars.
However, she quit within minutes and failed to make it past the first room, returning to camp with no stars and therefore no food apart from basic rations.
She said: "Ant and Dec have lost patience with her and I think most of the crew hate her since she bailed out of the Bug Burial Trial," she told The Sun.
[42][43] ITV defended their decision, with a spokesman saying: "All contestants are assessed by independent medical experts before contracts are signed and again before entering the jungle.