Here’s when I’m A Celebrity 2020 starts and ends this year - and where it’s being filmed

2020’s Covid-secure edition of reality TV phenomenon I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here is almost upon us.

But when does it begin, and when will it wrap up? Will it even go ahead under the recently announced second lockdown?

Here is everything you need to know about it.

When will I’m A Celebrity… 2020 begin?

The official start date for I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here has been announced by ITV.

The 2020 series will begin on Sunday 15 November.

When will it end?

At the time of writing, it's not been confirmed just when I’m A Celeb… 2020 will end.

That's because of the national lockdown being imposed on England throughout the month of November.

From a Welsh perspective, the show can go ahead – the two week “firebreak” lockdown in Wales will have ended by the show's start date, and since the stars will have been isolating beforehand, with the castle location Covid-free ahead of filming, it will be safe for production to go ahead.

But the English lockdown still places some uncertainty on the length of the show, and a source told the Mirror that show executives were discussing the situation “daily”.

"There have also been discussions about shortening the series to two weeks instead of a 3.5-week stint,” they said. “In the worst-case scenario this year’s series will have to be cancelled."

Where is it being filmed?

Since 2002, the show has been filmed in Australia’s New South Wales. But while bosses of the show tried to get around coronavirus travel restrictions for the 2020 series, they have not been able to secure their usual location this year.

Instead, the show will be filmed in the UK for the first time at Gwrych Castle in Abergele in North Wales, an unoccupied Grade I listed country house said to be haunted.