I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! returned to ITV1 and ITV2 for a ninth series on 15 November 2009. It broadcast for three weeks and concluded on 4 December 2009. There was however an additional Coming Out episode on 7 December 2009, showing all the celebrities and what they did after they left the jungle.

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This was the first and so far only series to feature a contestant from a previous series, Katie Price. She made her second appearance on the show, having first appeared the third series in 2004. Price was paid £400,000, making her the highest-paid I'm a Celebrity contestant, up until she was surpassed by boxer Amir Khan in series 17.^[1][2] It was won by Gino D'Acampo.^[3]

Ant & Dec returned to present the main show.^[4] Emma Willis and Matt Willis stood down from the role as presenters of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW! and were replaced by last year's winner Joe Swash and Caroline Flack for the 2009 series.^[5]

The full celebrity line-up was revealed on 11 November 2009.^[6][7]

The contestants made their way into the jungle in a variety of ways, including sky-diving and hiking. They were situated in the base camp used in previous series.

On Day 5 the camp was split into 2 teams. Each celebrity had to draw a stick and the 2 with a coloured tip were captains and took turns to select their team members. Colin picked Justin, Katie, Sabrina, Jimmy and Joe. Lucy picked Gino, Stuart, George, Sam and Kim.

A trial followed in which they were each positioned under a bucket and using a stick had to balance the contents of the bucket by keeping a button pressed. The winning team was the one that had the final member still standing after all of their opponents had been eliminated. Sabrina was the final contestant to survive, making Colin’s team the winner. They were excluded from the first elimination vote and lived in the relative luxury of base camp.

Base Camp was transformed into a relative jungle paradise. It was furnished with camp chairs, pillows for the beds, dressing gowns, firewood and purified water. Lucy’s team entered the Exile camp. It was a rat infested clearing containing only the bare essentials, with one log to sit on and only one bed, no shower and only rice and beans to eat.

Over the next 3 days, everyone in Exile Camp participated in a Bush Battle with the winner of each one being allowed to return to Base Camp and gain immunity from the first public elimination vote. The battles were won by Stuart, Kim and George.

While the camp was split, all celebrities selected for Bushtucker Trials competed for 12 stars as usual. However, the first meals were allocated to Base Camp, 1 for each member at the time with any remainder providing food to the Exile team, except for Vile Vending in which Kim competed for 5 stars for Exile while Katie competed for 7 for base camp. This would have placed added pressure on any Exile member who completed a 1-person trial, as they would have had to collect all 12 stars to feed their own camp, however Katie competed in both of them, and, despite trying, failed to get all stars in any of her 6 trials.

On Day 8 the two camps reunited, located at 'Base Camp'.

  Indicates that the celebrity was immune from the vote

  Indicates that the celebrity received the most votes

  Indicates that the celebrity received the fewest votes and was eliminated immediately (no bottom two/three)

  Indicates that the celebrity was in the bottom two or three in the public vote

On 17 November 2009 (Day 4) Camila Dallerup withdrew because she fell ill. On 22 November 2009 (Day 9), Katie Price withdrew from the competition also because she was fed up of the jungle and doing 6 bushtucker trials in a row. On 30 November 2009 (Day 17), George Hamilton withdrew from the competition because of personal reasons.

The contestants take part in daily trials to earn food

  The public voted for who they wanted to face the trial

  The contestants decided who did which trial

  The trial was compulsory and neither the public nor celebrities decided who took part

More information Trial number, Air date ...

Trial number	Air date	Name of trial	Celebrity participation	Public vote	Winner/Number of stars	Notes
1	15 November 2009	All Washed Up	Gino Sam	—		See Note 1
2	16 November 2009	Dreaded Descent	Kim	41.07%		None
3	17 November 2009	Deathly Burrows	Katie	84.29%		See Note 2
4	18 November 2009	Celebrity in a Bottle	Katie	73.94%		See Note 3
5 (Live)	19 November 2009	Jungle School	Katie	75.27%		See Note 4
6	20 November 2009	Hell Holes Extreme	Katie	61.95%		See Note 2
7	21 November 2009	Vile Vending	Katie Kim	42.80% 26.99%		See Note 5
8	22 November 2009	Car-Lamity!	Katie	50.69%		None
9	23 November 2009	Bad Pit	Joe Kim	49.20% 7.57%		See Note 3 See Note 6
10	24 November 2009	Slip and Slide	Gino Stuart	—		None
11	25 November 2009	Jungle Arms	Joe Kim	38.04% 18.20%		See Note 10
12	27 November 2009	Scareway to Hell	Jimmy	—		See Note 7
13	28 November 2009	Great Barrier Grief	Justin	—		None
14	29 November 2009	Jungle Jail	Joe Stuart	5.00% 4.45%	Stuart	See Note 8
15	30 November 2009	Buzz Off	Sabrina Stuart	—		See Note 3
16	1 December 2009	Memory Misery	Jimmy Sabrina	—		None
17	2 December 2009	Off Your Trolley	Gino Justin	—		None
18	3 December 2009	Hell Hill	Gino Justin Jimmy	—		See Note 9
19	4 December 2009	John Trevolting	Kim	—		None
20	4 December 2009	Bushtucker Bonanza	Gino	—		None
21	4 December 2009	Flash Flood	Jimmy	—		None

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^1 To decide the winner, Lucy and Kim each had to guess (to the nearest hour, minute and second) how long they did the battle for.

All ratings are taken from the UK Programme Ratings website, BARB.^[9]

Gino D'Acampo and Stuart Manning were initially charged by New South Wales Police after RSPCA Australia complained over their killing and eating of a rat during the show, the killing of animals for performance being illegal.^[10] ITV apologised for not having properly advised the contestants of Australian legislation regarding animal cruelty.^[11] However, the charges were dropped against D'Acampo and Manning when ITV accepted responsibility for the incident. They were subsequently charged around £1,600.^[12]