I'm A Celebrity viewers were left taken aback by Dean McCullough on Sunday's debut episode, advising him to 'calm down' after his hyper entrance - but he soon won them over with his hilarious chat with Coleen Rooney. 

The Radio 1 DJ, 32, was the third celebrity to arrive into a luxury villa where the first group of stars met and immediately began jumping up and down and hugging Oti Mabuse and Tulisa.

The first group, also made up of Danny Jones and Jane Moore, were tasked with drinking a grim smoothie before hopping on a helicopter in the order they finished their smoothies.

Dean gagged several times while drinking his but did manage to finish in fourth place, ahead of Oti.

While the presenter was undoubtedly very excited to begin his time on the ITV series, some viewers said thye found him 'annoying'. 

Taking to X, viewers wrote: 'Dean getting on everyone's nerves five minutes into the episode'... 'Ah Dean is going to be the one isn't he, annoying me already!'

'Dean is getting on my wick already'... 'OK Dean calm down'... 'Dean's already annoying'... 'That's three weeks of Dean doing trials then.'

Dean quickly won over viewers however when, after skydiving onto the beach, he chose to partner up with Coleen Rooney.

The pair rushed to a car to drive to camp and viewers were left in stitches when Coleen said: 'I'm used to driving big cars.'

Dean immediately replied: 'Of course you are babes... I used to drive a Ford Fiesta.' 

It came after hosts Ant and Dec left viewers in hysterics after they poked fun at Coleen's infamous Wagatha Christie trial just seconds into the new series on Sunday.

The cheeky duo made the very cheeky quip as Dec teased: 'It’ll be nice for Coleen to face a trial that doesn’t involve Rebekah Vardy'.

Ant then laughed saying: 'There will be plenty more [of these jokes]!' with fans at home rushing to social media branding the pair 'legends'.

Their trial - which Coleen won - came after a widely-shared social media post in October 2019, in which Coleen said she had carried out a 'sting operation' and accused Rebekah of leaking 'false stories' about her private life to the press. 

Taking to X they wrote: '28 seconds in, Ant & Dec mention Rebekah Vardy': 'Not Dec mentioning Rebekah Vardy already': 'Dec's first quip about Rooney not meeting Vardy': 'Straight out the bat from Ant and Dec': 'Dec straight in there with the Vardy jokes'.

Rebekah lost the libel case and was ordered to pay up to £1.5million towards Coleen's legal fees.

Coleen has previously revealed that her plan to publicly share the leaker on Instagram in October 2019, was all her own.

She said: 'In the night I started thinking about what I was going to do. I just wanted these stories to stop.'

But did she do a classic firing up of the Notes app at 3am?

She explained: 'No. I like a pen and paper – a pencil and rubber, actually, so I can rub it out. So I started writing what I wanted to say and then the next morning I put it out there. That was the start of something that I would never have expected.'

Coleen added that she didn't tell a soul what she was about to do. 'No. [The part] my friends and family were most surprised at me [for was] putting the post up.'

Coleen was awarded costs by the court and £800,000 of the total amount due was payable immediately.

Rebekah was said to have scored one of the worst own goals in British legal history after a High Court judge dismissed her evidence as 'evasive or implausible' and accused her of deliberately deleting WhatsApp messages central to the case.