I’m a Celebrity, day 12 review: A toe-curling creepy-crawly episode that made everyone cringe

I’m A Celebrity contestants have been quitting camp quicker than Ant and Dec sprinting across that rope bridge. Grace Dent was first, followed by the midweek departure of Jamie Lynn Spears. Both had left on medical grounds: Dent later said her time on the show had given her “a short, sharp glimpse into the pain some folk worldwide endure”. Sounds like the rest of us sitting through Ant and Dec’s one-liners night after night.

With the shockwaves still rumbling on after Jamie-Lynn’s departure – Hollyoaks’s Nick Pickard slept it out and didn’t even know she was gone – the tone was muted in an episode that had all the charm of a snake wriggling up your undies. A camera-shy Nigel Farage somehow clocked in even less screen time than in previous instalments. He continued to recover from his unsuccessful trial of the previous day, from which he had cried off when becoming distressed underwater.

Twenty-four hours on, he did his best to appear chipper. But how he has changed since week one when he told Grace that he wanted to do as many challenges as possible as it meant more camera time. Now, he seemed to be shrugging his way through, hoping to reach the finish line. “I’ve had some good days,” he said, ruddy with indifference. “I had a bad day yesterday.”