Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly cause HAVOC with a drone in toy shop

They are preparing for the first ever UK version of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here amid the COVID-19 crisis.

And Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly caused havoc with a drone as they larked around in a toy shop on Monday.

The pair were seen checking out the latest gadgets, which Dec picking up a toy and exclaiming: ‘It’s a drone which is also a thunder jet.

Despite Ant being 44 and Dec 45, Ant cried out: ‘We’re like 40-year-old men in a toy shop!’

Ant then pulled out a sleek drone with LED lights which promptly dropped onto the floor due to its missing propeller – with the duo bursting into hysterical laughter.

The drone eventually took off after a propeller change but swiftly smashed into a table, with Ant screaming out and pretending the drone had hit him in an intimate area.

The drone then flew under a cabinet with Dec scrambling in vain to retrieve the object.

After numerous attempts to fly the drone which caused havoc, Ant threw the drone onto the floor and the pair fled from the shop. 

This comes as it was revealed TV crews working on the new series of I’m A Celebrity will be kitted out with ‘proximity monitors’ so they don’t get closer than two metres to each other.

The ITV show, fronted by Ant and Dec, is normally filmed in a tropical jungle in Australia but it has been switched to a castle in Conwy, North Wales, because of the pandemic.

ITV Studios entertainment director Richard Cowles said yesterday: ‘On a Covid level, everyone’s got proximity monitors on them so basically they can’t come within two metres of each other without it buzzing and flashing and reminding them to step away.’  

He told a Royal Television Society virtual event: ‘The key thing is we create the safest possible workplace for crew, cast and our hosts.’ 

The 20th series of the show is set to be screened next month – after Wales emerges from its circuit-breaker lockdown.

Mr Cowles also said she show will be edited in London so that there are less people who could ‘potentially spread Covid’.

He said: ‘It isn’t easy but the good thing about reality shows and shows where you put the cast in a bubble is that you can put them in a space where they can be reasonably sealed from outside interaction.

‘There’s adaptability within the format and as long as you can get the off screen stuff right and keep that Covid safe, there’s opportunity for everyone here.’  

He added: ‘In terms of the technology, we’ve for example, with the castle itself, we’ve mapped that completely remotely so we can get all of our camera positions and everything done off-site without having to go there.

‘We have basically created a whole virtual walk through of that castle, so all of the set can be built remotely back here and then transported up there.

‘All the camera positions, the lens length – all of that sort of stuff can be done.

‘We’re even going to have our edits in London to try to reduce the number of people travelling to Wales and to reduce the number of people that could potentially spread Covid.  

‘We couldn’t have done that but fibre technology means that we can send everything back, edit it in London and then send it back again.

‘It’s amazing how technology changes the environment that we work in and what we can do.’

The popular show is set to air next month.

From 6pm on Friday, the whole of Wales will go into a ‘circuit-breaker lockdown’ until Monday 9 November – just a week before I’m A Celeb is expected to air.

ITV bosses remain confident that despite the country going into full lockdown again, the show will go ahead.

An ITV spokesman said: ‘I’m A Celebrity continues to adhere to all relevant guidelines as well as our own strict Covid protocols.’