Rev Richard Coles made a 'brutal' yet 'hilarious' dig at Love Island's Maura Higgins during tonight's I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! episode.

From sharing emotional stories to swapping jokes with his other campmates, the former pop star is now a surprise favourite to win.

I'm a Celeb is synonymous with bushtucker trials, but what viewers really love, is the funny moments in camp and Coles has been readily available to provide them.

Tonight, Jane Moore, Maura Higgins and Richard Coles had to stand in telephone booths and answer questions whilst all manners of creepy crawlies fell on them.

Higgins was clearly distressed throughout the trial and Coles did his best to calm her. After the trial had finished, however, everyone's favourite reverend couldn't help but make a subtle dig at Maura's time on ITV's Love Island.

"You met worse things on Love Island Maura, except they had 2 legs," he said.

Viewers found this hilarious.

One said: "Rev Richard is hilarious".

Another added: "That was brutal! fair play though!"

Last night on I'm a Celebrity

Tensions were rising in the I'm a Celebrity camp on Wednesday night, when a row broke out over Dean McCullough refusing to do his chores and Oti Mabuse declared: "Shots fired!"

Melvin Odoom first aired his complaints to some of his other campmates about his partner not helping him with water duties.

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At first, he was diplomatic when he said Dean is a "great person" but he admitted he was not a good person to have help him with the chores. As the campmates begun to turn on the radio star, McCullough complained: "I hate doing it. It's an awful job. I don't want to do it anymore. Guys I can't. It's not for me."

Camp leader Danny Jones ordered him to: "Get on with it mate."

Yet McCullough made more protestations and a fuss over doing his fair share of the work. Jane Moore called him out — in her words — on his "b***s***" when the radio DJ tries to justify it.