The I’m A Celebrity Jungle Challenge in Greater Manchester has suddenly closed down.
The popular attraction allowed visitors to try their hand at a range of challenges and activities inspired by the hit ITV reality series.
But just over a year after launching in MediaCityUK, it’s been shut down by ITV ‘with immediate effect’.
Contestants had to crawl, swing and leap their way around a series of obstacles, including a huge zip-line that whizzed around the entire venue.
The Jungle Challenge space recreated the show’s set in the Australian jungle, complete with Main Camp, The Throne, and Winner’s Bridge.
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Tickets cost £30 per person for adults, which got you access to rock climbs, treetop trails and challenges that tested your balance, strength and nerve.
But ITV has now shuttered the Jungle Challenge, with immediate effect.
They wrote: “ITV has made the decision to close the IAC Jungle Challenge Attraction with immediate effect.
The I’m A Celebrity Jungle Challenge. Credit: The Manc Group
“All customers with future bookings will be automatically contacted via the booking email and fully refunded. Please allow 7 working days for the team to process your refund and for the money to appear back in your bank account.
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“If you have not received an email or a refund by Friday 11th November, please contact the Continuum Team at [email protected].”
A spokesperson for ITV said: “ITV have made the decision to close the IAC Jungle Challenge Attraction as it has become financially unviable going forward.
Greater Manchester public urged to help get people ‘off the streets and on their feet’ before Christmas
Emily Sergeant
Locals are being urged to help get hundreds of people “off the streets and back on their feet” this festive season.
As the temperatures told colder by the day, and Christmas creeps closer and closer, Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity is bringing back ‘1000 Beds for Christmas’, and the massively-important initiative is aiming to provide 1,000 nights of accommodation to people at risk of homelessness before the big day arrives.
Forming part of the ongoing ‘A Bed Every Night’ scheme, this festive fundraising mission is designed to provide food, shelter, warmth, and dedicated vital wrap-around support for those who need it most.
The charity says it wants to build on the “incredible success of 2023”, which raised more than £55,000 and provided 1,800 nights of accommodation.
Stockport-based property finance specialists, Together – which has supported the campaign for the last two years – has, once again, generously pledged to match every public donation for the first £20,000 raised.
Unfamiliar with the ‘A Bed Every Night’ scheme? Since 2017, when rough sleeping peaked, the initiative has helped ensure a significantly-higher rate of reduction in the numbers of people facing a night on streets in Greater Manchester than seen nationally.
The landmark scheme has given people the chance to rebuild their lives, while also giving them access to key services and opportunities that allows them to stay off the streets for good.
Despite the scheme’s recent success, organisations across Greater Manchester are under “a huge amount of pressure” to meet the demand for their services this winter, and given the current economic outlook, household budgets will continue to be squeezed – leaving people on the sharp end of inequality and poverty.
Daisy Jackson -
2nd November 2022 
