FORMER royal butler Paul Burrell became the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! camp's very own Indiana Jones when he faced the Bushtucker Trial last night (Thursday).

As he made his way to the jungle clearing to meet Ant and Dec, the presenters of the ITV show, he said: 'Your next victim arrives. It's like going to the block.'

Ant and Dec told him it was nice to see him and he replied: 'Nice to see you, too. You've been teasing me for three days. When you said Temple of Doom all I could think of was snakes and Indiana Jones's line 'I hate snakes'.'

He admitted he, too, hated snakes. Mr Burrell added he expected to be picked to do a trial and said: 'I've been waiting to be voted because I think the British public want to see who I am.'

Ant told him he had been on the shortlist to do a trial for four days and Mr Burrell replied: 'So, they get their wish. We are all sat there thinking it's going to be me. You've made us that way. You've deprived us of food and water and sleep.'

Then Ant and Dec explained the task to Mr Burrell. He had to go inside a cave which was home to a host of 'nasties' and 11 stars, which he would have to collect in five minutes.

Dec said: 'It's going to be dark. You are not going to be able to see a thing. You've got to feel for the stars and you're not alone in there. There's going to be all sorts of jungle nasties.'

Mr Burrell said: 'I'm used to snakes. But not these ones.'

He was given a small net bag with which to collect the stars.

Medic Bob offered him advice on what may lie in the cave.

'You are sadistic, aren't you?' said Mr Burrell.

He entered the cave and the entrance was sealed behind him. As he felt his way through the cave, he had to go through cobwebs and felt rats and mealworms littered about the place.

As eel slime fell on his back, he said: 'For Christ's sake, give me a star!'

He reached out, found the first star, grabbed it and said to himself: 'Come on, come on, come on, come on.'

Feeling other creatures, he shouted: 'No, no, no, no, no, no! Where am I going? What's that?'

With three minutes left on the clock, he got another star and said: 'I can't see a thing. I don't know what's going on in here, I don't even know which way to go.'

He felt a shower of bugs fall on him and screamed: 'God, this is sadistic!'

As he moved, more slime fell on his head and he shouted: 'Oh Christ!' Then, hearing hissing sounds, he said: 'It sounds like a snake or something. I don't like snakes.'

As the task drew toward a close he managed to get several more stars and felt his way round the top of a central rock island containing a star but also mealworms and rats.

As the time ran out, Mr Burrell was released from the cave and, once in the daylight, could see his arms and shoulders were covered in mealworms and slime.

Ant said: 'How did you find it? You were making a hell of a noise in there.'

'There was stuff happening all the time,' said Mr Burrell.

He collected a total of six stars, but said 'it's not good enough' and added: 'No, I didn't like it at all.

'It's totally disorientating. I didn't know where to put my hands and what was there.'

As he left the area he was un-aware that a huntsman spider, which landed on him during the trial, was crawling across his back.