As tensions start to rise in the ITV I’m A Celebrity camp, the contestants have been stressed by a big restructure, with Maura Higgins having an ‘accident’

I’m A Celebrity’s Maura Higgins has added to the rising in-camp tensions after admitting to an “accident” after the camp’s restructure.

The celebs will have to pay their way in the jungle after new rules were brought in meaning charges will apply to using the dunny, taking a shower and basic meals. In the Rank Bank trial, all the campmates were there to witness Ant and Dec explain the new rules and they would all be affected.

Chosen by the public, Dean McCullough, Alan Halsall and Danny Jones went up against each other to complete the trial, which saw them battle it out to bag some cash for their team’s bank account. The winner was to be awarded $300, while the campmate to come second and third was awarded $200 and $100 respectively.

If anyone didn’t complete the challenge in the allotted three minutes, they would leave empty handed. To use the basic amenities like the dunny, shower, poil and bath, they would have to pay $10 each at the turnstile, while a vending wall with fresh water and logs also ahad a $10 charge each. The treat machine was installed – not that many of them would be left with enough to make use of it.

The I’m A Celeb campmates were left unimpressed by the revamp ( 
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After sitting through the trial, all the celebrities returned to the camp, hoping to tuck into yet more rice and beans – but there was an issue. Strictly’s Oti Mabuse and Reverend Coles couldn’t find the food supply, eventually working out Maura had taken it out with the rubbish. The pair had to rummage through the bins to find the discarded food, with Maura confessing to accidentally throwing it out.

She told the Bush Telegraph: “I didn’t throw the rice and beans in the rubbish on purpose or anything, although that’s the place for them if I’m being honest! It was a complete accident.”

Maura’s mistake has only added to growing tensions in the camp, with Radio 1 DJ Dean at the centre of a feud following a sighting of a rat. Reverend Coles brought it up over breakfast, telling the campmates: “We had a visitor last night, a little four legged visitor with a tail, a rat.” He reminded everyone to clear up at night to avoid inviting the critters in to the camp, after a frying pan and some cups were left out.

But Dean denied it had anything to do with him, telling the Bush Telegraph: “It’s actually Jane and Tulisa’s job to make sure that the pots are in the trunk, so when the reverend was telling everyone to put the pots away otherwise we’ll get rats, what he really meant was, Jane and Tulisa, put the pots away.”

It comes as Dean had also seemed to irritate Melvin Odoon, who said getting “Houdini” to help with chores was a chore in itself, saying: “It’s almost like another chore to ask him to help… it’s like telling a kid to tidy up his bedroom.”

Meanwhile, former boxer Barry McGuigan has his own gripe with Dean, after finding issue with the DJ after teabag-gate. Barry said of his trial efforts: “He screams, he shouts and he’s overdramatic.”