I’m a celeb 2011: McFly star Dougie Poynter celebrates 24th birthday

The general public spend their birthday eating cake and opening presents but not Dougie Poynter.

The I’m a celeb…Get Me Out Of Here star spent his 24th birthday within the Australian jungle but he wasn’t sitting around bored.

The McFly star agreed to finish the newest Bushtucker trial after Mark suggested he should do it on his special occasion.

Birthday boy: Dougie Poynter turned 24 by doing a Bushtucker trial

But Dougie wasn’t so sure about doing it in the beginning.

‘Fatima will nail this Bush Tucker Trial but I’m happy to present it a go,’ he told the gang.

‘I should do relatively well as everyone seems to be bumming out today.’

The group weren’t so enthusiastic for Willie to participate as he told them: ‘I gets the celebrities after which I’ll drop them.’

As Dougie arrived on the trial, hosts Ant and Dec attempted to sing Happy Birthday to the star but he asked them to forestall while laughing.

Race Across the Clock: The 24-year-old needed to lay down on an enormous clock and move his way around it

The pair then asked him if he was waiting for doing the trial.

‘I knew they’d make me do it because it was my birthday and since i used to be a naughty traitor,’ Dougie answered.

Race Round the Clock saw Dougie lay down on an immense clock where he pulled himself around it and put his face into several boxes that were placed at different numbers at the clock.

Inside each box was a special jungle critter and the musician had only ten minutes to release all six stars.

Time to head: Dougie wasn’t phased by the varied jungle critters that he faced within the trial

Giggling nervously, Dougie began the trial and turned himself round to 2 o’clock.

As he put his head within the box, stick insects fell on his head but he managed to release the star from the ring using his teeth.

At four o’clock, he faced plenty of snakes, but he wiggled the star around several bends and eventually released it.

Two hours in a while the clock, Dougie was smothered in fly pupae however the star kept his cool and got his third star.

When Ant and Dec asked him what the fly pupae tasted like, he replied: ‘Soup!’

Tastes like soup: The McFly star told Ant and Dec that the fly pupae tasted like soup

Dougie was covered in slime at eight o’clock as hundreds of meal worms and cockroaches poured over his head but he managed to tug the string together with his teeth and retrieve a better reward.

At ten o’clock, Dougie faced rats but as they ran around his head he pulled down the fifth star.

The final box was stuffed with huge spiders but Dougie pressed ahead and won the sixth and final star.

‘You smashed it with three minutes still to move,’ Dec told him. ‘Now you may return with a peace offering and hopefully improve the mood in camp.’

Grabbing the celebrities: Dougie was only allowed to exploit his mouth to gather the yellow objects

Dougie then told the hosts that the very first thing he desired to do was return and feature a wash.

‘I set myself my very own personal challenge of seeing how long i may go with out a wash,’ he told them.

‘I’ve gone four days without washing however the smell was so bad I’ll ought to now wash.’

As he made his as far back as camp he expressed his happiness at successfully completing the trial.

‘I did it’: Dougie was so pleased that he completed the trial and decided to leap on Mark on his return to the camp

‘The mood in camp in the mean time is very bummed so i am hoping this is able to cheer them up a touch.’

And when he arrived the very first thing he did was shout: ‘I did it!’

Dougie then ran towards Mark and wrapped his legs around him whilst he lifted him up and cheered.

The group were really pleased that Dougie had completed the challenge, not just because they’d be eating a correct dinner but in addition since it was his birthday and it meant that the mood will be lifted on his special occasion .

Getting clean: The musician said that the very first thing he desired to do after the trial was have a wash