Ratings: 'I'm A Celebrity' enters the jungle with 11.5m

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I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! returned strongly to ITV1 on Sunday evening, while Kitty's X Factor exit eclipsed Strictly Come Dancing, the latest audience data has revealed.



Series 11 of I'm A Celebrity launched with 11.5m (42.4%) on ITV1 from 9pm, peaking at 12m (41.5%) during the opening 15 minutes, but gradually declining towards 10.30pm.

The jungle reality programme also had 265k (1.5%) on ITV1+1, while spinoff show I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here Now! set up camp with 758k (5.3%) on ITV2 from 10pm.

In a strong night for ITV, the departure of Kitty Brucknell from The X Factor was seen by
12.49m (41.9%) on ITV1 from 8pm, peaking at 13.67m (44.9%) for the final 15 minutes.

The X Factor results grabbed a further 166k (0.6%) on ITV1+1, but The Xtra Factor slumped to 479k (1.7%) for ITV2 from 9pm and 129k (0.7%) on +1.

Strictly Come Dancing danced away with 10.7m (38.9%) on BBC One between 7.30pm and 8pm, climbing to 11.09m (39.4%) for the second half as former boxer Audley Harrison became the latest celebrity to leave the new series.

Overall, ITV1 won primetime with 33.6% (+1: 0.5%) against BBC One's 22.7%. Channel 4 scraped third with 5.5%, just ahead of Channel 5's 5.4% (+1: 1.1%) and BBC Two's 5.1%.