Ant McPartlin directly urges I'm A Celebrity viewers to stop voting for Dean McCullough

Dean McCullough has been repeatedly nominated to undertake the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! trials - but present Ant McPartlin has intervened to halt viewers voting for him

Ant McPartlin has sensationally intervened successful a bid to halt ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! from nominating Dean McCullough for each trial.

The 33-year-old vigor host has been enactment guardant for astir each proceedings of the play truthful acold - and has been a catastrophe erstwhile it comes to collecting meal-making stars successful ITV's long-running world show. Some viewers person suggested determination could beryllium immoderate hostility betwixt 49-year-old Ant and Dean arsenic helium has cracked jokes and quips implicit the vigor star's dismal proceedings results.

But present Ant has outright urged viewers to halt voting for Dean to springiness different celebrities a accidental to instrumentality portion successful the show. Appearing connected spin-off show, I'm A Celeb.... Unpacked, connected Sunday night, Ant hinted helium has had capable of guiding the Northern Irish prima done trials.

Show big Joel Dommett asked the seasoned presenter: "What bash you deliberation astir Dean doing the proceedings again tomorrow?" And Ant replied: "Well, right. Let’s each person a superior talk. I’m going to look straight into the camera here. I deliberation it’s bully to spot different faces down there."

He continued: "This is not a idiosyncratic thing. It’s not astir Dean. It’s astir us, conscionable seeing antithetic radical down there. I deliberation we privation to spot antithetic radical connected the amusement doing [trials]. Some radical are, unfortunately, aren't getting... I'd similar to spot Barry bash a trial. I'd similar to spot Melvin down there. Or Oti."

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