Chris Packham wants I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! to evolve

Chris Packham hopes \'I\'m a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!\' continues to change.

The 59-year-old naturalist is "celebrating" that the programme hasn\'t been on the air in recent months - but if the next series does go ahead later this year, Chris hopes the ITV show will continue to evolve.

Chris - who is a long-time critic of \'I\'m a Celebrity\' - told The Sun newspaper\'s Bizarre TV column: "It generates an enormous revenue for them and so that loss would be a hard test to take.

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"But if it gives them an opportunity for a rethink and a reappraisal, that is great. I was celebrating that it was off the air."

Chris previously urged \'I\'m A Celerity... Get Me Out Of Here!\' producers to stop using animals for entertainment.

The wildlife presenter hit out at the ITV show\'s use of creatures during the Bushtucker Trials, saying he\'d love to get the programme\'s producers "in a room".

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He explained: "When I see them being harmed or killed for entertainment, I wonder if we are not in the Middle Ages.

"It\'s about change. People have to accept that we have to make changes now.

"I have never met Ant and Dec but rest assured if I did, I would be chatting about it. But it\'s the programme producers I\'d really like to get in a room."

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\'I\'m A Celebrity\' bosses previously came under fire when Vanessa White was seen holding live bugs in her mouth during a trial.

An ITV spokesman said at the time: "As a production, \'I\'m a Celebrity\' complies with all regional and national laws concerning the use of insects animals and reptiles."