I’m A Celeb’s Josie Gibson struggles to breathe as she breaks down in tears over trial

I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! Contestant Josie Gibson was reduced to tears while taking part in the latest Bushtucker trial. On Thursday night’s episode, the This Morning star was alongside her campmates for Barbaric Barbershop.

ITV fans saw Fred Sirieix, Marvin Humes, Josie and Danielle Harold become the first campmates to take part in the two-day challenge. Each celebrity will be faced with a certain critter which has been chosen by the public.

As the five met hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly at the clearing, the two explained the rules of Barbaric Barbershop. Each person had to put their head into a box and use their mouth to unscrew star pieces within their container.

The aim of the game was simple, they had to use the star pieces to form a star shape and place it in their barbershop chair. Although each star has been split into two unique pieces and they needed to find the two pieces that go together to form their individual star.

Being given 10 minutes to get all 10 stars, they learned which critter had been chosen for them. As Josie was told she’d be joined by spiders, it was clear the ITV star was shaken up.

When the challenge began, Josie gave it a good try and managed to get one puzzle piece loose. However, when a spider jumped on her neck she jumped out of her box install.

“Get me out of here!” a visibly shaken Josie screamed at what she had just gone through. Seeing how upset she was, the two hosts tried to calm her down.

Dec asked: “You’re ok Jose, are you alright?”. As Josie sobbed, she told them both she was doing ok.

They replied: “It’s alright love, come over here.” Through tears, she apologised as they comforted her and told her it was fine.

Once she was out, Josie was taking sharp breaths to try and calm herself down while the challenge continued. In the end, the team managed to secure a total of four stars for the camp.

At the end of the challenge, she spoke about the whole ordeal as she commented: “I am petrified of spiders. I was hoping that maybe I would be able to get rid of that fear.

“But, because they were there from behind, I didn’t know what it was. I’ve got to get over this, it’s not going to harm me but you can’t help it. If you’re frightened or scared of something.”

After seeing how terrified Josie was, it wasn’t long before people took to Twitter to sympathise with the presenter. X user @peqchsoup commented: “Actually crying for Josie bless her man.”

@ellamather18 added: “Josie is traumatised over this trial bless her.” As @jamesfirman6 said: “#ImACeleb #Josie hero. That was pure fear, bless her. Josie for Queen of Jungle.”

@Siobhan2088 tweeted: “Aww bless Josie. She stayed longer than I would have. Spiders are my worst fear. I genuinely couldn’t have done it either #ImACeleb.”. @AnaVCorreia added: “Josie was struggling bless her heart.”

Josie is one of the frontrunners to win this year’s series with bookmakers Coral giving her odds of 7-4 to take home the crown. Although storming ahead is Sam Thompson with his odds standing at 11-8.

I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! Continues weeknights on ITV from 9pm.