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Daily Mirror
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
ITV Shark Celebrity Infested Waters star details hidden injury 'it's not pleasant'
ITV's new reality show Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters premiered last week Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters star Ross Noble has revealed a hidden on-set injury as he said, "It's not pleasant". The new reality show premiered on ITV last week, with seven celebrities heading to The Bahamas to participate in a dive expedition with three world-renowned shark experts. The aim for the stars is to dive with sharks in their natural environment in a bid to appreciate the animals and be less fearful of them. All five episodes are now available to stream on ITVX. The famous faces taking part are Sir Lenny Henry, Helen George, Lucy Punch, Rachel Riley, Ade Adepitan, Dougie Poynter and Ross Noble. Shortly after the show's premiere, 49-year-old comedian Ross took to Instagram on Tuesday (July 22) to detail a painful injury he sustained before filming, which was kept hidden on camera. "For those of you wondering why on Shark show on ITV I never stand up on the boat and drag myself around. The answer is and it is never mentioned in the show, I broke my foot just before we started filming," the caption read. "The doctor signed me off to swim which meant the adventure could continue. The crew were amazing and the care was first class. "Putting on a wetsuit over a broken foot is not pleasant but there is no way I was going to miss out on what was one of the greatest experiences of my life. You can see all the eps on @itvxofficial now." The post was accompanied by a series of photos showing the extent of Ross' broken foot, with one image featuring the comedian sitting on a boat while wearing a large black boot. Another photo showed the injury up close, with the side of his left foot looking bruised and swollen, while a third image showcased the knee-length leg cast. Fans quickly took to the comments section to share their support, with one person writing: "And yet you were such a trooper through it all. Badass man." Another added: "Wow you really been hit by the 'hurt' stick lately. Glad you got to do something amazing as you were healing," while a third said: "We were already impressed. Now we bow down to you." A fourth fan echoed the sentiment, saying: "Oh jeez that's a bit of decent mischief you've done yaself there, badass alright!" Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters only reached a peak viewing of 1.5 million for its launch episode, with the following instalment attracting just 1 million. More viewers tuned in to watch a rerun of Death in Paradise on BBC One, and history documentary Human on BBC Two.
Metro
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
ITV star reveals gruesome broken bone was kept secret on shark series
Stand-up comedian Ross Noble has revealed the reason he 'never stands up on the boat' ITV's new shark show is because of a nasty foot injury. The 49-year-old entertainer is one of the famous contestants facing down a sea of sharks in the aptly named Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters alongside stars like Lucy Punch, Rachel Riley and Helen George. All in a bid to reshape the public's view of sharks and their nature – transformed Although the daredevil show requires the celebrities to dive and swim in the ocean (with the help of expert), now Ross has shared some gruesome photos of an injury he received before filming that was kept hidden on camera. 'For those of you wondering why on [the] Shark show on ITV I never stand up on the boat and drag myself around. The answer is, and it is never mentioned in the show, I broke my foot just before we started filming. 'The doctor signed me off to swim which meant the adventure could continue,' he wrote in a post on social media. He added: 'The crew were amazing and the care was first class. Putting on a wetsuit over a broken foot is not pleasant but there is no way I was going to miss out on what was one of the greatest experiences of my life.' The post is accompanied by a series of photos showing the extent of the broken injury with one snap of him splayed out on the boat with a cast around his foot. Then there is another with a close up of his injury with the side of his foot alarmingly swollen and bruised, and finally a snap of him wearing a knee length black leg cast. The TV comic hasn't revealed how exactly he received the injury but people have shared their sympathy in the comments. 'Glad you got to do something amazing as you were healing,' shaynnablaze wrote on Instagram. 'Yet you were such a trooper through it all. Badass man,' pauldegelder added. 'We were already impressed. Now we bow down to you,' sherlockguest echoed. Ross has not had an easy ride of it on the show, also getting bitten by a shark on the leg while filming. In a post addressing the leg bite, he shared a joking live shot of a plastic shark going for his leg with the caption: 'Sure it was just a nip but on my bucket list i have ticked off Bitten by a shark.' More Trending The comedian – who has appeared on staple panel shows like Have I Got News For You – has faced more health troubles than just a broken bone in recent months. Earlier this year, he was forced to postpone part of his tour after contracting a kidney infection which left him in the hospital. 'In all my years of touring I can count on one hand the number of shows I have had to postpone due to illness. The show must go on and I am usually able to power through. Sadly this time I have been told by the doctor not to,' he said to his followers at the time. View More » Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters airs every Monday at 9pm on ITV. All episodes are available to stream on ITVX. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Swimmers flee in terror after woman suffers wound from mystery creature MORE: ITV viewers already hooked on 'intriguing' police drama after 3 new episodes drop MORE: Woman who filmed Coldplay kisscam reveals how she captured bombshell moment
The Sun
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters slammed by viewers as ‘pointless TV' after debut episode
VIEWERS watching Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters slammed the series as 'pointless TV' after its debut episode. Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters sees seven famous faces embark on a dive expedition to The Bahamas. 4 4 The line-up includes Lenny Henry, Rachel Riley, Dougie Poynter and Helen George. Rounding out the group are Ade Adepitan, Lucy Punch and Ross Noble. Some viewers were left unimpressed with the programme, branding it "pointless". Taking to X, one person wrote: "Ok I get it, they're huge with razor sharp teeth but why is they're always that one f*****g celebrity that cry's/shakes/ terrified… "They're not going to let you die, ( saying that i wouldn't do it) #sharkcelebrityinfestedwaters." Another wrote: "Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters is single proof that television is at an all time pointless low." While a third remarked: "So ….. i probably won't recognise any celebrities, the sharks will find them tasteless….. and none of them are gonna be eaten. #pointless New TV series tonight." Others were more complimentary, as one shared: "Celeb Shark Infested Water is nay too shabby TV tbf." A second penned: "This new show is very eye opening and I have already learnt a lot about sharks on the first episode….." Leading the expedition are shark experts including Dr. Tristan Guttridge. Ross Noble is bitten by a shark on new ITV show Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters It comes as Call the Midwife star Helen George, 41, opened up about facing her biggest fear upon joining the show. Speaking to The Sun on Sunday ahead of the first episode on ITV1, Helen revealed that she developed the fear, known as aquaphobia, after experiencing a horrendous near-death experience in a swimming pool as a child. Helen said: 'I was terrified of putting my head underwater. I have a real deep-rooted fear. 'I used to love the water when I was really young, but I went to a swimming party when I was six. 'They put those weird Nineties foam mats down. They're massive yoga mats, really. 'I just remember this moment of being stuck underneath one and not being able to get out. There was that fear of being trapped. I finally made my way up to the surface. 'But I remember no one noticing that I'd gone, and no one really believing what I said, because no one had seen it. From then, I got it in my head about not putting my head underwater. 'I have a really strong image of looking up to the top of the swimming pool and the mats were on top and no one knew I was down there.' 4
The Irish Sun
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters slammed by viewers as ‘pointless TV' after debut episode
VIEWERS watching Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters slammed the series as 'pointless TV' after its debut episode. Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters Advertisement 4 Viewers have slammed the new ITV reality show Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters Credit: Shutterstock Editorial 4 Sir Lenny Henry is among the celebrity line-up Credit: Shutterstock Editorial 4 Call the Midwife's Helen George is facing a big fear Credit: Shutterstock Editorial The line-up includes Rounding out the group are Ade Adepitan, Lucy Punch and Ross Noble. Some viewers were left unimpressed with the programme, branding it "pointless". Taking to X, one person wrote: "Ok I get it, they're huge with razor sharp teeth but why is they're always that one f*****g celebrity that cry's/shakes/ terrified… Advertisement Read more on ITV "They're not going to let you die, ( saying that i wouldn't do it) #sharkcelebrityinfestedwaters." Another wrote: "Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters is single proof that television is at an all time pointless low." While a third remarked: " So ….. i probably won't recognise any celebrities, the sharks will find them tasteless….. and none of them are gonna be eaten. #pointless New TV series tonight ." Others were more complimentary, as one shared: "Celeb Shark Infested Water is nay too shabby TV tbf." Advertisement Most read in News TV A second penned: "This new show is very eye opening and I have already learnt a lot about sharks on the first episode….." Leading the expedition are shark experts including Dr. Tristan Guttridge. Ross Noble is bitten by a shark on new ITV show Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters It comes as Call the Midwife star Helen George , 41, opened up about facing her biggest fear upon joining the show. Speaking to The Sun on Sunday ahead of the first episode on ITV1, Helen revealed that she developed the fear, known as swimming pool as a child. Advertisement Helen said: 'I was terrified of putting my head underwater. I have a real deep-rooted fear. 'I used to love the water when I was really young, but I went to a swimming party when I was six. 'They put those weird Nineties foam mats down. They're massive yoga mats, really. 'I just remember this moment of being stuck underneath one and not being able to get out. There was that fear of being trapped. I finally made my way up to the surface. Advertisement 'But I remember no one noticing that I'd gone, and no one really believing what I said, because no one had seen it. From then, I got it in my head about not putting my head underwater. 'I have a really strong image of looking up to the top of the swimming pool and the mats were on top and no one knew I was down there.' Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters airs on ITV1 and ITVX. 4 Viewers branded the programme "pointless TV". Credit: ITV Advertisement
Metro
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
I'm a TV critic - I was so wrong about Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 'If you get eaten by a shark… that's one hell of a story at the funeral, isn't it?' That's the words of Ross Noble, shortly before he is actually bitten by a shark in the name of ITV's bizarre and surprisingly touching new reality series, Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters. Thankfully, he makes it out of the water unscathed. His first, and I imagine only, shark attack comes from an eight-foot lemon shark, a relatively harmless species of apex predator which chomps on his leg but barely punctures his wetsuit. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the Steven Spielberg horror that continues to strike fear into the hearts of all who watch it (causing generations to still be too scared to enter the water) ITV is throwing some of the UK's most beloved celebs into shark infested waters to prove that they have an unreasonably bad rep. On paper, it sounds like a Bushtucker trial ramped up to 100. I'm A Celebrity contestants can – and have – survived the odd nibble from a huntsman spider or a venomless snake but Ant and Dec are yet to throw a Corrie legend in the water with an actual shark. An impressive cast, boasting Sir Lenny Henry, Countdown's Rachel Riley and McFly's Dougie Poynter, is helped by leading shark experts to come face to face with some of the most feared predators in the world in their natural environment. Gradually, they build the courage to free-swim with a tiger shark – widely considered to be one of the most aggressive animals in the ocean. They're welcomed into the process by Paul de Gelder, a charismatic former marine who lost his leg and arm to a bull shark in 2009 but now devotes his life to protecting the animal that almost killed him. It's a stark reminder that while, yes, sharks are misunderstood they're not kittens of the sea. The celebs are thrown straight into the deep end. Paul tells them they'll be getting in the water with more than a dozen bull sharks – the very species that ripped his limbs from his body – but for the only time in this entire process they will be in a cage. There are varying degrees of terror from the stars: On one end of the scale you have Rachel Riley who can't believe her luck ad gleefully dives into the water without a shred of fear. At the other you have Call The Midwife's Helen George, who hasn't dared put her head under water for more than 20 years let alone share a space with a four-meter-long maneater. Even as somewhat of a shark obsessive (rarely a day goes by when I don't lose myself down a rabbit hole of shark videos on Instagram) I wasn't sure how or if Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters would work. Obviously, there's no real jeopardy – not that I'd want that – but without it what is the pull? Unexpectedly, the pull is George, who trembles just looking at the water. Her fear is so deep-rooted she sobs just at the idea of jumping off the boat. But there is no contest here, the entire group is rooting for each other and there is no one to root for more than George, who perhaps seems unlikely to swim with a tiger shark but shows incredible perseverance which becomes a surprisingly moving watch. Determined to be strong for her two children, George pushes herself beyond what she thought possible. Reality television is at its best with camaraderie at its core, and I can't recall another show that shows teamwork quite like this. It's refreshing and actually quite a bold move not to have any contest running through Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters but it's a gamble that pays off. I had no idea what there would be to love about watching celebrities learning to dive but there are few reality shows which show so much growth and so quickly. But Shark! Celebrity Waters sets out to serve a greater purpose than just reducing Helen George to a nervous breakdown. More Trending Initially, I feared it was just a cheap attempt to disguise putting celebrities in precarious situations with a deadly predator, but it does genuinely feel determined to prove sharks are so far from the monster Jaws portrayed them to be. Without sharks, the ocean dies and if the ocean dies then we die. Sadly, that's not as sexy a tagline as 'just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water'. Will Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters cause a surge in sympathy for sharks? It's a tough sell, but it's definitely a step in the right direction and does feel far more well-intentioned than I thought it would. View More » Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters will air every Monday at 9pm on ITV. All five episodes are available to stream on ITVX now. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Shark! 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