Ant and Dec respond to I’m A Celebrity star’s forgotten Britain’s Got Talent past

I’m A Celebrity presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly person addressed antecedently ‘meeting’ Dean McCullough connected Britain’s Got Talent.

The BBC Radio 1 presenter, 32, reached the semi-finals of the ITV amusement with his all-male creation troupe The Glambassadors successful 2013.

However, Ant and Dec, some 49, who person presented BGT since it started successful 2007, said they had nary recollection of Dean connected the programme.

Last night, a instrumentality asked connected the presenters’ Instagram Live, Jungle Club:’Do you retrieve gathering Dean connected Britain’s Got Talent years ago?’

Ant replied according to The Mirror: ‘Good question but the reply to that is no.’

On I’m A Celebrity, Ant has been increasing progressively frustrated with Dean’s disastrous attempts astatine Bushtucker Trials.

Ant admitted helium was ‘unprofessional’ erstwhile helium mislaid his patience with Dean and urged him to ‘try harder’.

On spin-off Unpacked, helium confessed: ‘My annoyance came crossed connected surface and I was rather unprofessional and I’m not blessed astir it.’

Ant explained however he’d reached this constituent of frustration: ‘You get to the constituent wherever you’re similar “What are you doing?”‘

He aboriginal begged viewers to ballot for different personage to tackle a Bushtucker proceedings but insisted it was ‘nothing personal’ towards Dean.

Ant begged: ‘It’s bully to spot different faces down there. This is not a idiosyncratic thing. It’s not astir Dean. It’s astir america and conscionable seeing antithetic radical from the amusement being featured.’

I’m A Celebrity fans person besides predicted Dean volition beryllium the archetypal prima to beryllium eliminated from the jungle aft a immense fallout.

Dean and Alan Halsall locked horns successful the archetypal enactment of the bid erstwhile the Corrie prima attempted to aftermath him from a nap to assistance Jane Moore cod wood for a fire.

When helium got small effect from Dean, Alan decided to spell down with Jane to assistance her truthful she wasn’t alone. 

As Dean headed to articulation Alan and Jane, helium said to Alan: ‘You tin spell backmost now.

Alan explained: ‘I was trying to aftermath you up arsenic brushed arsenic I could.’

While Dean responded: ‘Listen to me. If you’re gonna aftermath maine up, you request to springiness maine a minute, alright?

‘It takes a mates of minutes for my interaction lenses to get backmost moving again, alright? So you don’t request to crook astir to maine and say, “Do you not fancy it?” ok? And past crook astir and locomotion away.’

Alan explained: ‘I’ve listened to you, Jane was halfway down here, that’s wherefore I went…”’

Dean said: ‘Ok, I get that but you request to springiness maine a minute, mate.’

The backmost and distant continued arsenic the brace repeated their points, with Alan apologising for the mode his comments whitethorn person travel across.

On X, fans believed Dean’s behaviour could spell his elimination with inkjude saying: ‘Dean purposefully pretending to beryllium sleeping and giving cognition get him retired #ImACeleb.’

‘Dean’s conscionable earned himself the archetypal elimination I deliberation #ImACeleb,’ said superTV247 successful agreement.

I’m A Celebrity continues contiguous astatine 9pm connected ITV and ITVX.

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