The first series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! was broadcast on ITV from 25 August to 8 September 2002. Ant & Dec presented the main show on ITV, whilst Louise Loughman hosted the spin-off show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW! on ITV2. The winner of this series was radio DJ Tony Blackburn with 55% of the final vote; it raised a total of £618,799 for the nominated charities, with Blackburn amassing £184,000 for the National Autistic Society. In July 2002, London Weekend Television confirmed that a celebrity Survivor-style series was in the final stages of development and was provisionally titled Get Me Out of Here: I'm a Celebrity.

Celebrities

The show began with eight celebrity contestants. They were:

Results and elimination

Bushtucker Trials

The contestants take part in daily trials to earn food

Star count

Ratings

All ratings are taken from the UK Programme Ratings website, BARB.

Home media

On 7 October 2002, a compilation of clips from the series was released on VHS and DVD by Video Collection International and Granada Media. Released as an "Unseen and Uncut" release, it contains some clips deemed to be too raunchy to be shown on TV.