Darts legend Eric Bristow and funnyman Brian Conley went head to head in the I’m A Celebrity jungle yesterday in an attempt to win the first ever Dingo Dollars challenge, and it was the comedian who had the last laugh.
This year the Celebrity Chest challenges have been axed in favour of the new currency, which enable the contestants to buy treats at the ‘outback shack’. Brian represented the Snake Rock camp, while Eric represented Croc Creek, who are struggling to cope having failed to win all of the tasks so far.
The pair had to perch on a lily pad and catch twenty balls with nets. The balls would be fired into the air. They had to catch five at a time then swim over and place them in the tubes to release their Dingo Dollars.
As they arrived at the game area Brian joked: “This is not a darts competition then I wouldn’t stand a chance.”
Brian, found the game easier than Eric who struggled to get back onto his lily pad. As the entertainer placed the last of his five balls in the tube and released the money, Eric had to be told that the game had finished and he had lost.
But the undeterred sportsman vowed to get his revenge and said, “I’ll have him before it’s over, he’s on my list!”
At the outback shack, Brian was faced with a choice of two items for his fellow camp mates, of five brownies or five hammocks.
The entertainer said, “I’d love a chocolate brownie but at the end of the day hammocks are far more important. If we get a good kip that’s so important for camp.”
Having made his choice, the phone rang back in camp and David relayed the question to the other celebrities.
The question was, what is Brian’s TV catchphrase? A) pick up a puppet or B) it’s a puppet.
The campmates picked the latter, ‘it’s a puppet.’
Worried that it may have been a trick question, David set about winding up the girls and said the question was ‘what was the opposite of Brian’s catchphrase.’
Over in Snake Rock, a disappointed Eric returned to camp and delivered the bad news. A despondent Hugo Palmer said: “I can’t bear losing one more time. I really, really want us to win tomorrow now.”
