Police in Wales are investigating ITV’s “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!” over concerns that the reality program is using non-native bugs in the Welsh countryside.
TV host and naturalist Iolo Williams called the reality show out on Twitter, prompting the investigation.
“It appears that #imacelebrity made no licence application to @NatResWales to release non-native species into the wild,” he tweeted. “This now becomes an issue for @HeddluGogCymru to ascertain whether offences have been committed. Over to you @NWPRuralCrime“
The concern is that the show’s use of non-native cockroaches, maggots, spiders and worms in challenges meant to gross out — and weed out — contestants could threaten wildlife in the 250-acre estate surrounding Gwrych Castle in north Wales. The current season is being filmed there, rather than the series’ typical setting of the Australian jungle.
Williams called the use of non-native species “madness,” according to The Guardian.
TV host and naturalist Iolo Williams called the reality show out on Twitter, prompting the investigation.
“It appears that #imacelebrity made no licence application to @NatResWales to release non-native species into the wild,” he tweeted. “This now becomes an issue for @HeddluGogCymru to ascertain whether offences have been committed. Over to you @NWPRuralCrime“
The concern is that the show’s use of non-native cockroaches, maggots, spiders and worms in challenges meant to gross out — and weed out — contestants could threaten wildlife in the 250-acre estate surrounding Gwrych Castle in north Wales. The current season is being filmed there, rather than the series’ typical setting of the Australian jungle.
Williams called the use of non-native species “madness,” according to The Guardian.
- 11/25/2020
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
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