Jan Leeming returned from the Bush telegraph to inform the group that it was time for their first Bushtucker trial named Mine Shaft Misery.

The group were asked to nominate a team member to complete the trial and surprisingly two of the celebrities were particularly keen. Both Jan Leeming and Phina Oruche were chomping at the bit to throw themselves into this first jungle challenge and eventually the celebs agreed that Jan should be given the chance.

Jan chose Toby Anstis as her assistant and his first duty was to lower Jan down into a mine shaft where she could look for caverns hidden inside the dark hole. Inside these caverns would be hidden stars as well as an assortment of bugs and creatures. They further explained, perhaps unnecessarily, that once Jan got lower and lower, it would get darker and darker, until she would no longer be able to see her hands in front of her face.

With wavering confidence Jan punched the first cavern full of scorpions and got the first star and then, slightly lower down, got the second which was in a cavern full of green ants.

“Oh damn I’m covered in ants and they are biting me,â€? she moaned.

As she felt inside the next hole finding rats in her way she called delicately for Toby to lower her further, abandoning that star and then passing on the next where she felt a snake inside.

Discovering cane toads in the next cavern down Jane began to panic but like any well trained newsreader should, her panic remained contained.

Meanwhile above ground, Toby joked to Ant and Dec: “Beautiful day guys, isn’t it?�

Jan began to pull out the toads one by one throwing them onto the floor of the mine shaft below her. Having pulled 8 toads out, she finally got to the star and bagged it.

However, that was the end of the road for plucky Jan by this point there were now eight cane toads sitting below her and she realised that if she continued the trial she was going to have to get nearer and nearer to them.

“Toby, bring me up,� she called, her ladylike voice belying a real terror that she was now feeling.

“Please get me out of here,� she begged.

Worse was to come for poor Jan when lifted out of the shaft, she realised that not only had she only gained three stars out of ten, but she had dropped one on the way out, leaving the celebrities with just two meals for dinner.

“Oh Toby it was such a shame I tried so hard and then to drop a star,� she lamented.

Jan became more distraught when she got back to camp and embellished the tale of her trial in front of the other celebrities: “Guys, it was horrendous,� and like a proper gentleman Toby backed up his teenage crush: “It was a hell of a horrible one.�

Everyone told Jan it didn’t matter but she broke down in tears in front of Faith and Lauren looking stricken at her apparent failure.

“I think its delayed shock actually,� she explained, and the others recalled that Jan had never before seen the show.

Jan continued to moan about the horror of the trial, the miniscule stars and the mine shaft in general as Lauren fetched her water and she slowly sipped it to recover from her ordeal.

Maybe she should have let Phina go in the first place then……..

Courtesy Of ITV