Contestants on ITV’s upcoming pleb-beacon I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here have begun squabbling over their ill-gotten paychecks.

Apparently there are some discrepancies in the amount of wonga being dished out to each undeserving ’star’. Pram-faced ex-Atomic Kitten warbler Jenny Frost is presently top of the pile, with producers handing her a whopping £100,000 for her appearance.

Fellow jungle-goers, however, have found that their slices of the big money pie are looking a little less appetising…

A mystery friend of the blonde-mopped girl-group screecher revealed her concerns to the Sunday Mirror:

"After all the hoo-ha with Jordan being paid so much more when she appeared, we thought it was a flat rate of £25,000 and nothing more. To find out Jenny is earning so much more from the show is just astonishing. It’s created a lot of bad blood before any of the celebs have even got on the plane."

Jenny’s co-stars – the word ‘celebrity’ evidently being used in the loosest possible sense – include former Eastenders non-actors Sid Owen and Elaine Lordan (being handed £55,000 and £65,000 respectively) and Food And Drink wine-guzzler Jilly Goolden (£25,000).

Ex-Blue singer Anthony Costa will also be popping his podgy face into proceedings, thereby netting his grubby fingers the same 25K bonus as plummy Ms. Goolden.

But it isn’t all bad news. According to one showbiz insider, "the different fees make it even more certain there will be serious fireworks."

Which means – if we’re lucky – that we could get to see this whole bunch of talentless nonentities angrily tear each other apart  in a vicious frenzied bloodbath before the last one standing flips open their arm, reveals a bomb implanted there, types in a few digits and laughs insanely before blowing themselves up like at the end of Predator.

If we’re lucky.

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[story by C J Davies]