Apprentice star Katie Hopkins encountered 20,000 cockroaches when she was buried underground in a coffin. But the worst was yet to come when the coffin shot out from the ground to dangle 200 feet above a ravine before being tilted upwards.For every minute Katie stayed in the diamond shaped box she would be awarded one meal for the camp and the plucky celeb managed the full 10 minutes, meaning she could return to camp victorious with 10 meals in the bag for that evening.

Ant told Katie as she arrived for the trial: “This is Grave Danger. Underneath this mound is a diamond shaped pit. Ware going to raise the lid and you’ve got to get in, lie flat on your back, then we will lower the lid again. You will be in complete darkness.”

Dec added: “Obviously this is a Bushtucker Trial so you may not be alone in there.” Katie speculated on what might be joining her in the box:

“A big man?” Dec told her: “Maybe. Expect surprises. That’s all I can say.” But Katie was determined not to be put off and said:

“I think it’s time to take it like a man. I’m going to go for it.”

Ant then asked: “Are you scared at all?”

Katie: “Yes. If you could have picked my worst nightmare and really wanted to punish me this would probably be it.”

As the lid was lowered onto the coffin and Katie found herself in darkness she laughed and said: “Oh my God.”

She then started singing to herself as the 20,000 cockroaches gradually joined her.

“Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. Whatever the frigging hell that is, I’m not liking it,” she said.

She then tried mind over matter telling herself: “Oh my God, oh my God it’s some sort of treatment, it’s just a treatment. Oh my good God, please if these come up my bits I’m going to be really angry. They smell as well. Oh my God they’re all over my arse.”

She described it as ‘like childbirth but worse’, continuing: “Ow you little bastard get off.”

Ant then revealed in a hushed voice: “What she doesn’t know is the coffin is about to move.”

He asked: “What’s wrong Katie are they biting you?”

“Yes, they’re biting. It really hurts and they’re up my bits as well.”

Dec said: “There’s 20,000 cockroaches in there.”

Ant added: “And it doesn’t seem like she knows what’s happening. She hasn’t recognised the coffin has moved at all.”

The coffin was by now over the ravine dangling from ropes on a pully system in mid air.

Katie continued: “Ow, you little shit, you shit, you.”

The wooden case of the box then fell off to reveal the Perspex coffin leaving Katie able to see that she was now dangling over the ravine.

Dec told her: “You can open your eyes and have a look now Katie.”

She told Dec she didn’t want to and exclaimed: “Ow, it’s in my bra.”

Dec then revealed in a hushed voice that the coffin was about to be tilted.

As the coffin moved so it was dangling at an angle, Katie remarked: “Ow, well at least I’m standing on some of the little shits.”

Ant reassured her: “You’re doing very well.”

Katie then began chanting to herself.

“Who thinks up this stuff you’re sick, you’re sick,” she added.

The brave celeb had, by now, reached 10 minutes and the box was brought back to land and she was able to get out.

Ant said: “Well done give yourself a rub down,” as the cockroaches continued to crawl all over her body.

Katie jokingly rubbed herself against Ant and Dec to wipe the cockroaches off.

Katie said of her ordeal: “It makes me want to be sick. They really stink and then they started crawling up my bits.”

Ant asked her what it was like when the box was moved to dangle over the ravine.

Katie said: “Not special. Not my favourite moment, then they bite, that’s the thing.”

Ant told her: “There were 20,000 cockroaches in there. I just thought I would let you know that.”