Snake scare in I'm a Celeb camp

• Bang Showbiz
• 22 November 2011

Mark discovered the carpet python

Security rushed into the 'I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!' jungle last night (21.11.11) after a snake crept into camp

Security rushed into the 'I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!' jungle last night (21.11.11) after a snake crept into blue camp.

Crissy Rock, Mark Wright, Dougie Poynter, Jessica-Jane Clement, Pat Sharp and Emily Scott were left terrified when they discovered the huge 1.5-metre slimy creature under Mark's bed.

While the 'Only Way Is Essex' hunk originally thought he had found a rat creeping about under his sleeping space, on closer inspection he realised it was actually a bandicoot being suffocated by a carpet python.

Mark shrieked: "Oh my God, Dougie. There's a snake eating a rat!"

Dougie shouted back: "I'm scared, what can I do?"

Security immediately rushed in to the camp and moved the slithery snake to a safer part of the jungle, much to the relief of the contestants.

Afterwards, Mark said: "I thought it was a lizard and then I saw the snake suffocating the bandicoot."

However, Emily was undoubtedly pleased she didn't accept the flirtatious 24-year-old star's earlier offer of "cuddles" in his hammock.

Prior tot the incident, he said: "Why not get in the hammock with me and we'll have a cuddle?"

Despite Mark's perseverance, Emily giggled that they wouldn't be able to fit in it together.