{"id":184932,"date":"2025-11-17T07:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/184932\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T07:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:58:17","slug":"im-a-celebrity-dean-mccullough-says-viewers-never-saw-him-begging-for-bushtucker-trial-break-as-show-changes-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/184932\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Celebrity: Dean McCullough says viewers never saw him\u00a0\u2018begging\u2019 for bushtucker trial break as show changes rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">As I\u2019m A Celeb returns, the Newtownabbey-born radio presenter talks about how things have changed since his time in the jungle\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dean McCullough in 2024 series of I'm A Celeb (courtesy of ITV)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/981358b7-ac1b-4146-a507-d028628e26fe.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dean McCullough in 2024 series of I&#8217;m A Celeb (courtesy of ITV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Dean McCullough believes the rule change to this year\u2019s series of I&#8217;m a Celebrity&#8230; Get Me Out of Here! is \u201cnuts\u201d and says viewers never saw him \u201cbegging\u201d producers to give him a break from the Bushtucker trials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Newtownabbey-born radio presenter was the second campmate to be eliminated from the 2024 series, leaving the jungle on Day 15 after a public vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As I\u2019m A Celeb returns, the Newtownabbey-born radio presenter talks about how things have changed since his time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,49973],"class_list":{"0":"post-184932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-niamh-campbell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115563980996279650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}