I’m A Celebrity: Tom Fletcher reveals wife Giovanna is using secret hand signals to communicate with the couple’s three sons
She entered the I’m A Celebrity castle on Sunday evening, in a rollercoaster first episode.
And Giovanna Fletcher is using a sweet way to stay in touch with her kids during the show, revealed her husband Tom on Monday’s episode of This Morning.
The mum blogger and author, 35, was seen holding her thumb to her nose and wiggling her fingers at the end of Sunday’s episode, with Holly Willoughby asking Tom – who was being interviewed with his McFly bandmates – what the gesture meant.
Hand signal: Giovanna Fletcher is using a sweet way to stay in touch with her kids during the show, revealed her husband Tom on Monday’s episode of This Morning
She asked: ‘Was that for the boys?’ with the star responding: ‘Yeah that was a little signal. When she does that, that’s a signal to the kids.’
Bandmate Dougie Poynter then joked that Giovanna would get ‘disqualified’ for her secret code, calling out: ‘Disqualified! Giovanna has been disqualified – she’s out!’
A quick-witted Tom responded: ‘I don’t know what she was doing.’
The couple are parents to sons Buzz, six, Buddy, four, and Max, two.
Family first: The mum blogger and author, 35, was seen holding her thumb to her nose and wiggling her fingers at the end of Sunday’s episode – in a message to sons Buzz, six, Buddy, four, and Max, two
I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! kicked off its first ever UK-based series on Sunday night, with the ten celebrities reaching their new home at Gwrych Castle for the first time.
Hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly were quick to reference the show’s new home by greeting fans in Welsh, and joked that even ‘the helicopters were socially-distanced’ in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The opening show saw celebrities including Vernon Kay, Beverley Callard and Mo Farah face a gruelling challenge as they journeyed into the castle, before taking on their first ever trial Gates From Hell.
Cute: Appearing on This Morning with his McFly bandmates, Tom said: ‘Yeah that was a little signal. When she does that, that’s a signal to the kids’
Fun: Bandmate Dougie Poynter then joked that Giovanna would get ‘disqualified’ for her secret code, calling out: ‘Disqualified! Giovanna has been disqualified – she’s out!’
The 2020 series is also expected to only last 20 days – two shorter than normal.
ITV announced an extreme COVID Management Plan to ensure the series runs smoothly, including the celebrities being tested every three days and crew members wearing proximity buzzers, wear masks and get temperature checks on arrival.
The celebrities also had to isolate for two weeks ahead of their arrival.
Off she goes: Tom said the boys were excited to see ‘mummy covered in bugs and falling off cliffs’
ITV Studios Director of Entertainment, Richard Cowles, said: ‘Everyone on the production team has worked incredibly hard to bring I’m A Celebrity to Wales and a massive part of making that possible has been developing our protocols around COVID.
‘We have worked with ITV’s Independent Chief Medical Officer Dr Paul Litchfield, ITV’s Health and Safety Department and our own health and safety and medical teams to keep everyone connected with the production, both in front of and behind the camera, as safe as possible.’
Dr Paul Litchfield added: ‘Those involved in I’m A Celebrity are used to working safely in extreme and difficult environments.
‘The procedures and protocols developed aim to provide defence in depth against the coronavirus, applying industry best practice while always adhering to government and local guidelines.
Back soon: I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! continues on Monday at 9pm on ITV