{"id":144030,"date":"2025-11-17T05:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144030\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:38:11","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.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144030\/","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.newsbeep.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":144031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,82513],"class_list":["post-144030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-niamh-campbell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}