Every year I'm A Celeb's brutal Bush Tucker Trials spark outrage when the cackling campmates stuff their faces with live animals. But ITV bosses simply ignore the protesters’ pleas and bump up the slaughter. It's Carry On Cruelty..

So far series 15 has featured Gogglebox girl Scarlett Moffatt biting the head off a beetle and eating it. Plus Emmerdale star Adam Thomas and Homes UnderThe Hammer weirdo Martin Roberts trapping wriggly insects in their mouths for 30 horrific seconds.

Carol Voderman declined to scoff a scorpion but that was only because it went to give her a nip. Served her right.

Thousands of insects are liquidised alive in the jungle’s sinister circus of death and endless body parts - crocodile feet, kangaroo balls etc. - are regularly served up. Every macabre episode is jam packed with obscene acts of violence and torture. The defenseless creatures don't stand a chance..

Now a petition has been launched in a bid to stop the senseless and inhumane sacrifice of animals on the altar of mass entertainment.

A spokesperson for PETA said: “I’m A Celebrity producers really have no imagination. Each season looks like a rerun of the prior season’s vile treatment of animals.

“Beetles might not be seen as cute and cuddly, but just like other animals, they feel pain and fear.

“We live in an age of innovation and any filmmaker or TV producer worth his or her salt can entertain audiences without having to resort to abject cruelty which makes ITV look completely out of touch.”

ITV responded: "I'm A Celebrity complies with all regional and national laws concerning the use of live insects and arachnids in the eating trials, which has become a well-established part of every series of the show over the past 15 years."

Please sign the petition here:

https://www.change.org/p/itv-end-the-needless-cruelty-to-animals-on-i-m-...