Episode 1 __link__: I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here Greece

A single contestant must crawl through a submerged tunnel filled with ice water, eels, and fermented wine (the “wine” is actually vinegar). At the end, they must retrieve three golden coins — each representing a meal for camp — while submerged under a grate as air bubbles run out.

Aliagas explains: “In the Underworld, the dead forgot who they were. So must you.”

Achilles, for all his bravado, freezes at the tunnel’s mouth. For three agonizing minutes, he hyperventilates. Aliagas mock-whispers, “Even heroes wept in Hades.” i'm a celebrity... get me out of here greece episode 1

For two decades, the I’m a Celebrity… format has dumped fading pop stars, reality TV villains, and Olympic athletes into Australian jungles. But for its first Greek edition — I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Greece — producers have traded snakes and spiders for something far more terrifying: the wrath of the gods.

The twist: camp votes for who least deserves to return. They unanimously pick Achilles. A single contestant must crawl through a submerged

(One star deducted for overuse of “Hades” puns.) Watchability Index: High. Especially if you’ve ever wanted to see a Greek folk singer threaten to quit over undercooked lentils.

By the time all six assemble, they are exhausted, sunburnt, and already bickering. Achilles tries to lead; Katerina has a panic attack over a lizard; Mitsos sings a dirge about his lost luggage. So must you

The premiere, titled “Welcome to the Underworld,” aired Sunday night to record-breaking ratings, immediately separating this spin-off from its international cousins. Set not in a generic “jungle” but on the treacherous, windswept cliffs of the Mani Peninsula — with the abandoned, haunted towers of Vatheia as a backdrop — this is I’m a Celebrity as mythological punishment. The “camp” is a cluster of stone shepherd huts, each missing a wall, facing the churning Messenian Gulf. There are no hammocks. Instead, celebrities sleep on bedrolls laid directly on gravel. The camp’s only luxury? A single, cracked amphora of water that refills only after a daily Trial.