Simon Webbe
Simon stepped up to do today’s Bushtucker Trial called ‘Last Gasp’ and was escorted to the bridge by Joe and George.
Arriving at the challenge he spotted the water and immediately confessed to hosts, Ant & Dec that he had a fear of water.
‘I don’t swim at all but didn’t want to say anything in camp. This is the whole part of the show, getting over your fears.’ He admitted that he would be doing this for his daughter.
Ant and Dec then told Simon that under the water are six bubbles. Five will contain stars whilst the sixth was the base bubble. The bubbles provide the only way to breath under the water.
Simon would have to collect the stars from each bubble using his mouth and teeth and return them to the base bubble. The stars will be either red or yellow, the red are worth one meal for camp whilst the yellow are worth two meals.
Guarding the stars will be jungle critters including Oscar fish, water spiders, Eels crocodiles and water monitors. Simon had six minutes to get as many stars back to the base bubble.
Refusing to back out of the trial, Simon headed straight into the water. Heading for the first bubble he successfully retrieved the red star and earned one meal for camp.
Catching his breath in the base bubble he headed to get his second star. Guarded by water spiders Simon got the red star but dropped it and lost one meal for camp.
The next star was yellow and worth two meals, putting his head in the bubble which contained eels he successfully got the star moved on to the next one. With three minutes left and a quick pep talk, he got another yellow star which was guarded by crocodiles.
With only one more star left Simon headed to the surface of the pool, told he had 30 seconds left he headed back down to get the final star from the bubble which also contained water monitors.
Gaining six out of seven stars, Simon headed out of the pool. Having faced his fears Simon received some oxygen from the medics on site. Talking to Ant and Dec after the Trial Simon revealed ‘It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life, anything after this is a breeze.’
Asked if he had conquered his fear Simon replied ‘No’.