Tensions are continuing to rise in I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! 2024, with a switch-up in camp leaders causing Jane Moore to see red.
At the start of the series, Coronation Street actor Alan Halsall and N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos were put in charge, meaning not only did they have to assign roles among their campmates, but they also got to sleep in the luxury lodge.
Alas, all reigns must come to an end, and, following a public vote, it was revealed tonight that Danny Jones and Barry McGuigan would be taking over and now had the power to designate chores.
The pair wasted no time allocating jobs for the other campmates to complete, but little did they know such a simple task would lead to Loose Women star Jane branding the champion boxer both ‘sexist’ and ‘ageist’.
Revealing their choices to camp, they announced that Jane and Tulisa were on washing-up duty, while Coleen Rooney and Maura Higgins took over camp maintenance, and Oti Mabuse and Reverend Richard Coles became the chefs.
However, Danny and Barry’s decision ruffled a few feathers, with Jane being less than impressed with her chore allocation.
Jane said that she told Danny that she specifically didn’t want to do the cleaning before they went to delegate chores.
But it appeared there was some confusion, as Danny said he thought she had said the opposite.
‘For washing up, we’ve chosen Jane and Tulisa,’ Barry, 63, announced around the campfire, to which Jane exclaimed: ‘Oh, what? Is that because we’re women?’
‘No!’, Barry protested, explaining: ‘We were looking at you for possible water (collecting), but I’m thinking, you’re 62 years old, a year younger than me…’
‘Ageist and sexist!’, Jane then interrupted, causing fellow celebs to bury their heads in their hands out of embarrassment.
‘I thought she said she wanted to do it,’ Danny chimed in.
‘My last words to you as you came past were, “Just not cleaning”,’ she told him.
‘I’m not upset, I’m just saying, all women doing the washing up,’ Jane argued, which Barry branded ‘bulls**t’.
‘We didn’t think that way at all, absolutely not,’ he defended.
But the argument didn’t cease there as, during dinner, Barry confided in Danny that, despite Jane insisting that she was ‘winding him up’, he didn’t believe her.
The newly-appointed leaders sat eating their dinner looking somewhat drained, with Jane commenting on how ‘depleted’ they seemed as they appeared to already be struggling with the pressure of being in charge.
Speaking in the Bush Telegraph, pop star Danny said he and Barry weren’t feeling ‘too happy’.
‘I feel like we’ve upset [the campmates] in some way and we didn’t mean to do that,’ he said solemnly.
Taking to X after the argument aired, viewers made it clear whose side they were on.
‘Oh Jane… let’s not overuse and abuse the word sexist now, the guys had to pick someone to do the job, it’s not fair to use that word just because you didn’t like or don’t agree with their choice’, wrote xAllthingsKTx.
‘Barry was so happy to be voted camp leader and Jane has completely killed his mood and FOR WHAT?!’, raged _tventhusiast.
‘Jane come on it’s not that serious’, added Jwinter201.
Others urged the journalist to ‘get over [herself] and to stop ‘throwing a strop’, rushing to defend Barry.
‘I feel sad because I worry Barry is sitting in that camp thinking he’s going to be ‘cancelled’ for being ‘sexist’, if only he could see the whole scenario has had the complete opposite reaction. We’re on your side Barry’, penned bethanycogdon.
Shortly before entering the camp, Barry revealed in an interview that he had already spoken to execs about using ‘politically correct’ language in camp as he expressed his fears of ‘offending’ others.
This marks the second time campmates have locked horns in just two days, after soap icon Alan faced the wrath of radio DJ Dean McCullough, who seemingly woke up from a slumber in a grump when he needed to collect firewood.
Audiences were so enraged by Dean’s attitude that they even called for him to be the first star eliminated this series.
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! continues tomorrow at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
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