I’m A Celeb host Dec Donnelly enjoys a lunch date with wife Ali Astall as he touches down in Australia ahead of new series

The star is preparing to front I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! along with finest friend Ant McPartlin, with whom he has actually hosted the program given that its 2002 inauguration yet took pleasure in some downtime with his other half before next week’s launch.

Choosing a cool t-shirt and shorts combo, Dec, 51, might not stop smiling as he marched with his sensational spouse who used a trendy mini.

Ali, 47, who wed the television star in 2015, flaunted her legs in the t-shirt gown which included a ra-ra hem and a button down collarless top.

She curtained a denim coat over her arm and matched the appearance with studded shoes after touching down to support her hubby, with whom she shares eight-year-old child Isla and four-year-old kid Jack.

The showbiz world has actually been alight with rumours of this year’s entrants, with Wayne Rooney and Sharky seen touching down on Monday.

The brand-new series comes weeks after the duo were criticised by PETA over I’m A Celeb’s ‘ruthless reign of animal exploitation’ and ‘ugly and vicious phenomenon’.

The program’s well-known Bushtucker trials, which see stars secured with live animals and required to consume animals such as spiders, mealworms and cockroaches, have actually triggered strong debate throughout the years.

PETA have actually long wared the program, stating that ‘animal abuse is not home entertainment’.

Last month, the animal rights group produced Ant and Dec outfits that turn the I’m a Celeb speakers into wrongdoers at a grisly criminal activity scene.

The outfits call out the duo’s long-running ruthlessness towards frogs, crocodiles, spiders, rats, pests, and other animals who have actually been eliminated, consumed, and subjected to difficult stunts for the program’s consuming trials.

The outfit, selling at ₤ 95, is now offered to buy on the PETA site. All profits will benefit PETA’s work to end animal exploitation.

Behind the Halloween satire is a history of real-life scaries, PETA claims.

The ITV program has actually restricted frogs and other animals in unavoidable chambers with yelling, flailing candidates throughout the trials, and served animals’ genital areas, organs, and other body parts as food.

The program’s abuse of animals has actually triggered countless grievances to Ofcom, and PETA has actually gotten in touch with Ant and Dec to step down from the program.

‘Unlike the stars who offer to get in the jungle, animals never ever register to be restricted, horrified, or eliminated for a low-cost laugh,’ states PETA Vice President of Programmes Elisa Allen.

‘PETA’s Halloween outfits put Ant and Dec’s complicity in the spotlight and contact ITV to cut ruthlessness from the script and get the animals out of there.’

In 2009, ITV dealt with prosecution in Australia after participant Gino D’Acampo eliminated a rat and prepared the animal for a meal throughout shooting.

The list below year, the program pleaded guilty to 2 charges of ruthlessness to animals and paid a fine.

And in 2018, video from the program revealed a crocodile utilized in a Bushtucker Trial with the animal’s mouth taped shut.