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I’m A Celebrity campmates reach breaking point

The mood has definitely changed

It’s taken a while compared to previous series of I’m A Celebrity but the lack of food and being in one another’s pockets 24/7 has finally pushed this year’s campmates to breaking point.

The cracks in the once united group began to show last night and could all build up to a massive falling out later this week.

A number of the celebrities have started to grate on one another, with Kezia Dugdale sick of Vanessa White and Amir Khan not pulling their weight around camp, Rebekah Vardy “fuming” that the girls let her down in the latest Bushtucker Trial and Iain Lee and Stanley Johnson falling out over the best way to count pebbles.

In the Bush Telegraph Kez admitted she was coming close to losing it over the laziness of some of her campmates.

The Scottish Labour MP said: “There’s a list of duties that need to be done. Like stuff just needs to get done and it’s frustrating me and it’s making me a bit angsty.

“I found myself getting a little bit nippy with people in a way that I don’t want to be. Yes there are people in particular who are not pulling their weight but I shouldn’t name them. I’m going to wait until I properly lose it before I name them.”

Ooh, we’d like to see that although it seems obvious she’s talking about Amir Khan and the Saturday’s singer Vanessa as she was seen berating them for not making a decent fire or cleaning the pans properly respectively before she went to the Telegraph to let off steam.

Amir later admitted the MP was getting on his nerves but he was trying to stay calm and “just don’t let it get to me.”

He added: “I do get angry inside but I think whatever because at the end of the day they’re in the same position as me.”

That position yesterday was very hungry, with another meal of rice and beans beckoning unless their team won the battle of the sexes trial.

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The desire to win led to a number of the celebs falling out with their teammates when they felt they were letting the side down.

On the boys’ team, Iain got annoyed when Stanley failed to count pebbles accurately which led to the girls beating them to opening a locked chest.

The stones need to be counted to discover the number for the code to unlock the safe and the girls worked together to count in batches of ten.

Stanley said their failure to win was because they didn’t adopt this system until it was too late. But Iain took issue with this, as he said his personal way of counting the stones two at a time worked, as he’d reached the correct number for his pile each time.

The row led Stanley to call Iain an “obstinate man”.

The radio DJ retorted that it was the MP who was obstinate telling him: “You are the most obstinate person I’ve ever met, if anyone dares raise a criticism or disagree with you then they are obstinate. It’s a different point of view.”

He later said he didn’t buy into the “cult of Stanley” that seemed to have formed in the camp before he and Kez arrived. She agreed, saying she thought it as important for there to be “checks” on Stanley’s “power”.

So it seems like this isn’t the last time Stanley will face an argument!

Meanwhile, there’s also trouble brewing between Rebekah and Shappi Khorsandi. The WAG was already “fuming” with the girls for failing to give them a head start in the race to win a huge feast as they lost out to the boys in Sunday’s live trial.

She then became frustrated as Shappi trailed behind her every step of the way as they raced to catch up with the boys.

“Come on! Hurry Up! Stop talking!” she continually barked at her as Shappi admitted Rebekah was really testing her patience.

Back in camp, Rebekah completely blamed their failure on Shappi, using expletives as she said she was a hindrance rather than a help with every task in hand.

Shappi meanwhile said she couldn’t understand why Rebekah was such a bad loser, as she tried to take “positives” from their day out.

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Could this lead to another falling out between the pair when they find out later what a feast they missed out on?

It definitely seems they are all not so happy campers anymore… there may be trouble ahead!


Nancy Brown
Associate Editor