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JUNGLE CHALLENGE FOR TOMBOLA

‘I’m A Celebrity … sponsor tombola’, has been putting its own staff through some jungle challenges and bush tucker trials – in Sunderland!

I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! is one of the UK’s favourite reality TV shows and has aired on ITV every November since 2002.

The show, which is hosted by northeast duo Ant and Dec, sees a selection of celebrities enter the Australian jungle to test themselves against some pretty gruelling tasks.

So far this season, we ‘ve seen Jamie Lomas and Becky [Rebekah Vardy] face some gruesome company in The Hole, Amir [Khan] and Vanessa White’s hilarious Hell Hole, but it was Becky and Toff’s (Georgia Toffolo’s) ‘Worst Date’ challenge that the show sponsor decided to replicate for a recent staff training event.

tombola’s training & development officer, Rachel Kelly explains: “Our recent training events for our home team have definitely had a jungle feel. Staff were split into three teams Croc Creek, Snake Rock and Monkey Mountain and we awarded stars for all the activities they were brave enough to tackle during the day.

“The Dingo Diner certainly caused most trepidation but all our teams were up for the challenge, just like the real contestants in the jungle. Our teams faced the uncertainty of tasting foods blindfolded that was either particularly unpleasant mixes or real jungle bugs – and we awarded different stars for each course.

“As well as our own bush tucker trial we also played some physical team games and ended the day with Human Hungry Hippos’, which was hilarious. It was chaos but everyone loved this one.

“Alongside the team building and activities, we’ve also been running information workshops for our home-based team to learn all about all our sponsorship of I’m A Celebrity - including adverts, social media, promotions and giveaways.”

tombola arcade is sponsoring I’m A Celebrity as well as I’m A Celebrity… Extra Camp on ITV2 and content on the ITV Hub.

The company is also sponsoring the show companion app where viewers can vote for which celebrity they want to take part in bush tucker Trials, to leave the show and ultimately who will become King or Queen of the jungle.

With over 10m viewers, I’m a Celebrity is one of the UK’s top-rated shows. tombola previously sponsored Emmerdale on ITV for 3 years. This year it is using its sponsorship to support the tombola arcade, which gives people the opportunity to play arcade games on the go.

Founded in 2000, tombola.co.uk is the largest bingo site in the UK, with more players than any other company. tombola develops and produce all of its original bingo software and arcade games in-house and employs close to 400 people in the UK and Europe.

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