Gino D’Acampo stroked crotch in front of I’m A Celeb campmates and screamed at crew, co-star Kim Woodburn says

GINO D'Acampo stroked his crotch successful beforehand of his I'm A Celeb campmates and screamed astatine unit members, his co-star connected the show, Kim Woodburn, has claimed.

Kim, who came 2nd to Gino successful the 2009 series, said the Italian's behaviour had near her uncomfortable - and should person seen him axed from deed ITV show.

The 48-year-old, past 33, would interaction himself implicit his shorts - and marque crude remarks astir his backstage parts, she told The Sun.

Kim, 83, added: “He utilized to basal implicit a log and changeable his privates implicit his shorts. He’d speech to his penis saying, ‘I cognize you haven’t had immoderate sex, but erstwhile you get retired of here, you volition get truthful much’.

“He would accidental his privates were being deprived and neglected, and his woman would springiness him a bully seeing to erstwhile helium got home. We would each conscionable crook away.

"It made maine uncomfortable due to the fact that it was vile and crude. It’s not due to bash that successful beforehand of women. But Gino thinks helium tin bash what helium wants.”

Kim besides claimed that the telly cook swore astatine members of the accumulation squad aft they stepped successful erstwhile helium cheated successful a Bushtucker trial.

“His connection to the unit was disgusting," she said. "He cheated, called this shaper a ‘f***ing bastard' and a 'c***', past refused to permission the set.

“We had to halt filming portion 2 men took him by the limb and forced him disconnected the acceptable backmost to the camp. They should person thrown him disconnected the show. Ghastly it was."

Gino had been sent to bash the situation alongside model Sam Fox, histrion George Hamilton and former EastEnders actress Lucy Benjamin, Kim explained.

“We were each successful this Jacuzzi-type happening afloat of h2o with a wheel. There were these small flags which weren’t allowed to interaction the water, and abruptly this unit subordinate shouted, ‘Gino, you’re out! You’re cheating’.

“All these radical successful suits came retired to look astatine the footage and determination it was, we could each spot helium had cheated. But Gino started effing and jeffing, utilizing the c-word, calling this 1 young antheral unit subordinate ‘a portion of s***’."

Kim described the dad-of-three, erstwhile beloved for his comic cameos connected This Morning, a "horrible, vile man" and a "full-of-himself small pig" - and helium had portrayed inaccurately on-screen.

She added: “ITV were incorrect to support him connected that set, and past helium goes and wins. He got a large edit.

“ITV cognize they covered up that helium cheated, and it doesn’t astonishment maine to perceive they person been covering up his different atrocious behaviour that has taken implicit the years.

“They’re a disgrace. What is incorrect with these TV execs?”

The allegations travel conscionable days aft an ITV probe unearthed dozens of complaints astir the TV prima implicit much than 12 years.

These included claims of "sexually inappropriate" and "intimidating" behaviour - described arsenic "unacceptable", "distressing" and "horrendous".

Gino told the web that helium "firmly denied" each the allegations, which helium called "deeply upsetting".

Speaking to ITV News correspondent Sejal Karia, 1 pistillate alleged that helium told her helium would "like to crook maine implicit and f*** maine up the a*** against the room counter" - portion connected a occupation successful 2011.

The woman, who has been called Hannah to support her identity, said determination was "a ripple of laughs" portion tense unit members hid down cups of tea.

She said she felt "shock" and "horror" astatine the evident "power play" - but that Gino seemed to beryllium protected from criticism.

Gino D'Acampo's ineligible squad said successful response: “This allegation from astir 15 years agone has never, until present via a media petition for comment, been raised oregon enactment to Mr D’Acampo.

"He does not callback it, nor judge that this happened. Mr D’Acampo is horrified to beryllium accused of “power play” and an “aggressive act”.

"He emphatically and unequivocally denies these allegations."

Another woman, fixed the sanction of Natalie, besides claimed she felt Gino's behaviour was "aggressive".

She alleged: "He opened the doorway successful his boxer shorts, thing else. And jumped connected the furniture and was benignant of - limb up.

"We had to benignant of beryllium determination facing him and helium made, you know, notation to his d***, fundamentally saying, ‘Oh, don't worry, it's lone small’, and benignant of flicking it."

The pistillate told ITV she felt "disgusted" and the alleged acquisition made her deliberation astir resigning.

In effect to this, Gino's spokesperson said: “Mr D’Acampo categorically denies these allegations of inappropriate intersexual behaviour."

"To his cognition nary specified allegations person been made against him successful narration to his clip connected 'Gino’s Italian Express' and this is the archetypal time, six years later, helium has been informed of these alleged incidents, and helium does not judge them, not slightest due to the fact that immoderate of this is considered by Mr D’Acampo to beryllium a fabricated enactment of fiction."

Meanwhile a 3rd pistillate told ITV she saw Gino behaving successful a threatening mode to endanger a young workfellow successful 2019.

She claimed: "I was contiguous erstwhile Gino said to the runner, ‘If you don’t get maine a Cornetto I volition f*** your girlfriend.’"

In 2018 helium allegedly told different young pistillate colleague, "Shouldn’t we beryllium talking astir her t***, they’re perfect, they’re similar a mouthful," according to a unit member.

In December past year, Gino edged out of his question amusement with Fred Sirieix aft refusing to motion a morality declaration clause.

He was enactment connected a connection and behavioural people by acrophobic executives.

He was accused of jokingly flashing— with unit members connected Emission Impossible, his amusement with Fred Sirieix, offered counselling afterwards.

A spokesperson for ITV said astatine the time: “We made our presumption wide pursuing the result of our KC Review past twelvemonth aft which we said, ‘We are wholly committed to creating an situation wherever everyone is treated with respect and feels capable to springiness of their best.

"Our committedness to those we enactment with is that wherever a ailment is made, oregon superior concerns raised, we volition ever analyse and if we find that thing inappropriate has happened, we volition instrumentality action.

"We volition proceed to make our efforts to springiness inferior colleagues the assurance to talk up if they person thing to raise.

"Following the reappraisal we reiterated our expectations and introduced Conduct and Standards Guidelines for On Screen Personalities which outlines our expectations successful presumption of behaviour, and person besides antecedently offered grooming successful connection and behaviour, either straight oregon done our 3rd enactment producers, wherever appropriate.”