BBC Radio 1 star calls I'm A Celebrity's Dean McCullough 'a snake' after Melvin Odoom snub

BBC Radio 1 Breakfast DJ Greg James was among those near stunned by the determination made by his workfellow Dean McCullough during the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! motorboat show

BBC Radio 1 loyalties were forgotten connected the past night's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! motorboat show, arsenic Dean McCullough ditched his co-worker Melvin Odoom in favour of teaming up with Queen of the WAGs Coleen Rooney.

Many ITV viewers watching astatine location were stunned by Dean's determination - including Greg James. The BBC Radio 1 Breakfast DJ took to societal media to stock his thoughts connected the epic snub from Dean - jokingly branding the 32-year-old camper "a snake"

During Sunday night's opening occurrence of I'm A Celebrity, the stars faced their inaugural situation of the ITV series, with 5 stars skydiving onto a formation to articulation the remainder of the campmates. Danny Jones bravely went first, teaming up with ex-boxer Barry McGuigan earlier they hopped into Jeeps to contention for the rubric of campy leader.

Tulisa Contostavlos chose Corrie fable Alan Halsall, Jane Moore picked her Loose Women pal GK Barry, leaving Coleen and Melvin Odoom arsenic the past ones standing. Radio 1's Dean McCullough was adjacent to marque a sandy landing, causing a disturbance among viewers arsenic helium called retired Coleen's infamous moniker for the precise archetypal clip connected air.

Sprinting towards Coleen and his Radio 1 workfellow Melvin, Dean exclaimed: "Melvin I'm so, truthful sorry, but... Wagatha Christie, you're coming with me! " Coleen couldn't fell her reaction, wincing and chuckling arsenic she dashed disconnected with her caller teammate. Coleen wasn't the lone 1 near cringing.

Posting connected his Instagram Stories connected Sunday night, Greg shared a drawback of himself pulling a quizzical look arsenic helium told his followers: "Urrrm Dean didn't prime Melvin?!" The cheeky broadcaster past shared a inactive of Barry getting cosy with a snake, captioning it: "They should nonstop Dean successful arsenic 1 of the snakes aft that behaviour.

Greg wasn't the lone 1 to prime up connected Dean's 'betrayal'. "Wait. Dean didn’t prime Melvin?? The teams astatine Radio 1 indispensable beryllium FUMING #ImACeleb," 1 spectator mused connected Twitter past night. "I wasn’t expecting dean turning down Melvin #ImACeleb," different added, arsenic a 3rd quipped: "dean has conscionable stabbed Melvin successful the backmost lol #ImACeleb."

Also successful this year’s bid is Coronation Street histrion Alan Halsall, net property and Loose Women big GK Barry and erstwhile Irish boxer Barry McGuigan. After the celebrities paired up, Tulisa and Alan became leaders of the camp, and selected Barry and Danny Jones to bash the archetypal Bushtucker proceedings of the series.

Barry had difficulties opening the padlocks to get stars portion helium was kept successful a rectangular enclosure arsenic snakes crawled each implicit him. He admitted to Danny helium "couldn’t assistance him", called himself "useless" and said the concern was "terrible" arsenic helium failed to get immoderate of the locks open.

Danny got each 5 stars portion having a snake crawling up his clothes, and earned the camps immoderate meals. Following a nationalist vote, GK was chosen to look the adjacent Bushtucker trial, titled the "vile volcano".

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! continues connected ITV1 and ITVX.

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