Amanda Holden worries I'm A Celebrity will be cancelled as Wales 'closes border'
After First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford’s decision to shut the Welsh borders to Brits from coronavirus hotspots, Amanda Holden fears the I’m A Celeb crew may be forced to call off the 2020 series
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Amanda Holden has shared her concern about the fate of the 2002 series of I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
It comes as the First Minister of Wales has proposed banning people from coronavirus hotspots in England from crossing the border.
Mark Drakeford announced the new restrictions on Wednesday, and the plans are set to come into force at 6pm on Friday.
It means the new guidelines will apply to those living in Tier 2 and 3 areas in England, and high-risk places in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
After ITV bosses were forced to relocate the 2020 series from the famous Australian jungle to spooky Welsch Gwrych Castle, it now seems as though the fate of I’m A Celeb is once again hanging in uncertainty.
Lifting the lid on her thoughts about the long-awaited return of I’m A Celeb, Amanda Holden admitted that she was worried about the show - and for hosts Ant and Dec.
During her Heart Breakfast show on Thursday morning, the 49-year-old bombshell questioned: “I wonder will it go ahead now? And what will happen to poor Ant and Dec? They’ve been so excited.”
“It’s possible that they’ll get to the Welsh border and will be thrown back into London.
“I can't imagine anyone turning away Ant and Dec, it would be the first time in their career.”
Due to the pandemic and the ever-changing lockdown restrictions and guidelines, ITV bosses have been forced to keep a watchful eye over the updates in Wales.
However, with Mark Drakeford’s new announcement, it appears that the I’m A Celeb crew may be forced to call off the 2020 series.
In his statement, the minister insisted that the health and safety of the Welsh people was the most important matter.
The politician insisted that banning people in areas of the UK with high levels of coronavirus from entering Wales was not an action against people from England.
He stated: “I pleaded with the Prime Minister to protect low incidence areas in England by acting in the way that we have and I’m still baffled by his unwillingness to take that simple, common sense course of action," he said.
“So, this is not at all about trying to create a border. I was very keen indeed to avoid that.
“It is about public health, it is about protecting areas and communities who feel very nervous, very under threat, very anxious that people will come from outside and spread the virus in parts of Wales where we don’t have big hospitals and we don’t have big infrastructures.”
Mirror Online have contacted ITV representatives for comment.
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