Residents don’t appear too worried by complaints that foreign species may have escaped TV show being filmed locally
The people of Abergele are a hardy bunch. This autumn and winter they are enduring an invasion of celebrities and TV types, who have descended en masse to film a Celtic version of I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! centred on their local castle. Not to mention journalists and diehard fans keen for a glimpse of hosts Ant and Dec.
So, compared with all that, the prospect of cockroaches, maggots, spiders and worms escaping from the grounds of Gwrych Castle into the countryside of north Wales – perhaps into the town itself – did not seem alarming to most.
