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The episode ends with a cliffhanger: Aliagas appears at dusk with a golden scroll. “Tomorrow, you will face the Labyrinth. And one of you will be voted… the Minotaur’s Guest.” The Good: The Greek mythology framing isn’t just set dressing — it’s baked into every challenge and punishment. The location is genuinely brutal (winds, no shade, real isolation). And the cast, while unknown internationally, feels volatile in the best reality TV way: no one is purely likable, and alliances are forming and crumbling in real time. i'm a celebrity... get me out of here greece episode 1
The premiere, titled “Welcome to the Underworld,” aired Sunday night to record-breaking ratings, immediately separating this spin-off from its international cousins. Set not in a generic “jungle” but on the treacherous, windswept cliffs of the Mani Peninsula — with the abandoned, haunted towers of Vatheia as a backdrop — this is I’m a Celebrity as mythological punishment. The “camp” is a cluster of stone shepherd huts, each missing a wall, facing the churning Messenian Gulf. There are no hammocks. Instead, celebrities sleep on bedrolls laid directly on gravel. The camp’s only luxury? A single, cracked amphora of water that refills only after a daily Trial. Then, the first Bushtucker Trial — here called
By the time all six assemble, they are exhausted, sunburnt, and already bickering. Achilles tries to lead; Katerina has a panic attack over a lizard; Mitsos sings a dirge about his lost luggage. The location is genuinely brutal (winds, no shade,
Achilles, for all his bravado, freezes at the tunnel’s mouth. For three agonizing minutes, he hyperventilates. Aliagas mock-whispers, “Even heroes wept in Hades.”
If you want to see influencers weep, shipping magnates barter dignity for crackers, and a rower slowly become the team’s quiet dictator — tune in. Just don’t expect any sympathy from the gods.
A single contestant must crawl through a submerged tunnel filled with ice water, eels, and fermented wine (the “wine” is actually vinegar). At the end, they must retrieve three golden coins — each representing a meal for camp — while submerged under a grate as air bubbles run out.