With two new celebrities in the I’m A Celebrity camp, the stars were forced to discuss sleeping arrangements. Brian read some instructions. ‘You’ll find a new sleeping area for two celebrities outside camp. The exact location of the Cave. It’s up to you to decide who stays there.’

The Group had a meeting about who should do what and who should sleep where. ‘We want a democratic decision as to who goes where tonight’ said Robert.

Timmy volunteered to sleep in the cave. ‘I’ve said before I’ll go into the cave.’

As the discussion continued, Esther, who is frequently protected by the group, decided that she would like to be considered to sleep in the cave. Aghast, the majority of the camp disagreed, especially Brian.

Worried that Esther might slip if she had to go to the bathroom during the night, the camp asked David why he would not consider sleeping in the cave alongside Timmy Mallet.

Nicola spoke for the group. She said ‘Everyone knows where it’s going. Everyone feels that it’s David (who) should have offered or at least offered an explanation as to why he doesn’t feel like he should go into the cave because as last people in, you two don’t have beds. We’re all sweet. We all have our beds.’

David refused to entertain the idea and without looking at the cave he responded, ‘So it’s alright Jack. I don’t particularly want any of your beds but I don’t want to sleep in the cave.’

Having bonded over their night locked in cages, Timmy informed the camp that David had a fear of the dark, ‘‘Ok I’ll speak up for David here, there’s an issue with the dark for David and it’s not something he’s comfortable talking about. But there was an issue with it last night and I will defend him on that because he certainly didn’t sleep a wink last night in the dark. Once it became light….’

David continued ‘I don’t like it down here. I don’t even want to look at it. I was in a crap place last night. The solitude and the loneliness. It was bad last night.’

Brian pointed out that there would be two people in the cave so there would be no loneliness.

David spoke to Timmy away from the group. ‘I have a plan which I think is going to be fair. I don’t think that those guys have a natural birthright to have those beds. My suggestion is we’ll do it tonight. We’ll tell them it’s for the duration. I ain’t prepared to do it after tomorrow night. If it splits this camp up, so be it.’

Timmy replied. ‘David you’re going to set the cat among the pigeons. You’re going to have a ding dong with quite a few people. Are you comfortable with that.’

David accused the rest of the Camp of bullying the two of them. Timmy disagreed, disputed this and said ‘I think it’s fair’. Timmy continued. ‘Just say yes you’ll do it. That’ll diffuse tonight and then tomorrow raise it and say I’ve done one night. David, I’m feeling rather protective of you. You’re going to walk into the lion’s den doing that and I think you’ll get your head bitten off. Don’t give them a reason to go we hate David. Sometimes you have to go ‘bof’. It’s irrelevant.’

Joe, Robert and Simon all talked by the creek. Joe said ‘I would but if you’d been a bit nicer about it David but to just expect. He said can you decide who’s going so I know what bed I’m staying in.’

Robert said ‘He’s asking you to do it for him. What’s he done for us? Why has he done for us that we should give up our beds?’

However towards the end of the afternoon, the situation boiled over as the issue came to a head. David spoke to the whole Camp about the situation and tempers flared.

He said ‘It seems to me that because you feel you were here first, you have some kind of freehold to your beds. In my head that’s not the case. That isn’t the situation.’

Let me tell you something else. It isn’t one night that they want 2 people to sleep in that s**t house (the cave). They want 2 people to stay in that s**t house until the first elimination.’

The Group pointed out it didn’t have to be the same two people. ‘Come on David, give it a go’ said Joe.

David said ‘it feels like I’m being snookered and bullied into this, cause we’ve come into this late, But I know you’re not trying to do it but that’s how it feels to me.’

‘What I’m prepared to do its go in for the one night tonight and tomorrow I just want to know that we’ll sit down and negotiate somebody else possibly taking my place. But after tonight I’m not going in there’ said David.

‘I don’t think its fair for George, Esther or Robert but there’s a lot of healthy people here. These beds are everybody’s. Now were here it’s a new situation. There are now 12 people.’

But Joe argued ‘We’ve been here for those weeks. And Dani added ‘You don’t think there’s any leeway we can get. We’ve been suffering for 6 days already, jumping out of a plane, eating crocs cock, trial after trial. We’ve paid our dues to a point where I feel, if we have our beds. It’s up to me whether I volunteer my bed to somebody else. I wouldn’t come in and after a week nearly of people suffering and say right get out of that bed I’m taking that now because I don’t want to go there.’

Simon pointed out ‘Martina volunteered to go down there and I did. You know what got my back up. You saying whose bed am I having. You refused to see the cave.’

The two argue and Simon said ‘Don’t come in here and tell me its my ego because I’ll take your s**it and take it down there. Your bed!’

‘I asked where the bed was, that was all,’ countered David.

George said ‘I’ve been listening to everybody. And I hope you’ve been listening equally to what they’ve said. We’ve been here for 6 days. It has not been easy, its been raining endless rain, wet and cold, we have paid our dues. You come in after nights in hotels, and one night in the cage. You have not paid your dues. And you’re asking us?’

And Joe added ‘If you had said, I’ll give it a go, you’ve come in and said I’ll give it a go, fair do to you. You should be saying I give it a go. But you came in straight away and you expected us to move for you. Tim’s come in and said I’m going to go down there. You’ve come in with a totally different attitude. We’re hungry, we’re cold. It’s a bit out of order. Don’t say I don’t like it because you’ve got to give it a go.

The whole discussion upset Esther. ‘It’s up to David and what it felt to him. Now let’s talk seriously about what this man has gone through.’

Nicola said ‘This is like a counselling session. I can’t be bothered with all this. It was one night in a thing (the cage).’

David explained how staying in the cage overnight made him feel. He said, ‘It’s personal really. It was really dark. It was the darkest place I’d ever been too. You couldn’t see any lights at all. No fire. It took me to a very low point emotionally.’

Nicola said ‘It’s been taking us to a low point for five days.’

Dani tried to explain ‘Timmy’s cage was only 4 or 5 feet in front of you.’

But Esther said to David upset, ‘I don’t want you to go through this. This is a game. We don’t want people to break down, to have a trauma.’