The goal: keep the Dthrip on your head for five minutes. Each minute you last adds one meal to the camp food bank.
He became the camp’s unlikely Dthrip King. By Episode 7, #Dthrip was trending worldwide. Clips of celebrities sobbing, hallucinating, and one former boyband member attempting to negotiate with the helmet (“I’ll give you my equity in the band’s back catalogue, just stop the tickling!”) flooded TikTok. The goal: keep the Dthrip on your head for five minutes
The show’s producers defended the challenge. “It’s 100% safe,” said executive producer Ari Stefanos. “No contestant has suffered lasting damage. Temporary hair loss and a phobia of makeup brushes? That’s entertainment.” The breaking point came in Episode 10. After a grueling Dthrip relay (three helmets, six celebrities, one jar of Greek honey as a lubricant—don’t ask), four contestants attempted to flee the camp at 3 AM. By Episode 7, #Dthrip was trending worldwide
– For twelve seasons, I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Greece has subjected fading pop stars, scandal-ridden politicians, and B-list influencers to the tortures of the Peloponnesian wild. We’ve seen live scorpion smoothies, sunstroke meltdowns, and at least one contestant try to befriend a wild boar. “It’s 100% safe,” said executive producer Ari Stefanos
If you haven’t been glued to ITVX’s Hellenic spin-off, here’s what you need to know. Season 12 introduced a new, seemingly innocuous challenge called “The Dthrip Gauntlet.” The name was first whispered by host Nikos Papadakis with a smirk that should have warned us. “Dthrip,” he explained, is an ancient Greek word for “the friction of a single hair against dry ceramic.”
They were found 200 meters down the road, hiding behind an olive tree, still wearing their jungle boots and sobbing that they “heard the bristles coming through the ground.”