GK Barry addresses fact she's I'm A Celeb's least known star and threatens flight home

The Mirror's Mark Jefferies is presently Down Under arsenic ITV's I'm A Celebrity gears up for a expansive instrumentality to screens

Social media prima and podcaster GK Barry says it is breathtaking going connected I'm A Celebrity knowing astir viewers won't cognize who she is - arsenic it offers her a full caller audience.

The 25-year-old from Cambridgeshire - real sanction Grace Eleanor Keeling - has 3.6m followers connected TikTok and much than 60,000 subscribers connected YouTube.

She besides has a palmy podcast called Saving Grace, wherever she shares stories from her beingness and interviews celebrities, but possibly would not beryllium known to galore I'm A Celeb's older viewers.

She said: "Do you cognize what? I'm truthful alert that I'm going to spell successful determination and nary one's truly going to cognize who I am. I'm truthful alert of that, truthful I bash request to marque a bully archetypal impression, but I'm ever that idiosyncratic that makes friends with, similar older people. If I'm successful a country with someone, I'm going to spell to the mums. So I consciousness like, hopefully they spot that from maine and extremity up liking me. And if they don't, I'll conscionable publication an aboriginal formation home. That's perfectly fine.

I consciousness similar it's rather bully to possibly get similar a antithetic similar different demographic listening to me. Obviously, I've got the Gen Z down but I deliberation it would beryllium bully to have, similar a spot of a antithetic assemblage arsenic good to beryllium included successful so, yeah, I deliberation it's rather exciting."

The Tik Tok prima besides admitted she would find a afloat integer detox precise challenging. Speaking from her edifice erstwhile she was successful isolation earlier filming began this week she said: "I'm successful hell. I've been what, I've been counting cars that person been driving past listening to Hits connected the telly. And there's lone truthful galore times you tin perceive Wham. It's getting to maine now."

She added: "I'm going to beryllium honest. I'm not doing this amusement for the fun, due to the fact that erstwhile I spot this show, I don't look astatine similar moving astir a tract of daisies. It looks terrifying. But I consciousness similar the radical that I'll conscionable successful determination and the imaginable much similar aboriginal jobs that I tin get with ITV is similar the main crushed for maine doing it similar I'd emotion to do, presenting and stuff. So I deliberation this is simply a bully measurement forward. And also, my different campy mates are forced to talk to me. So it's a triumph win situation. I tin find retired each the Goss."

GK besides admitted she wants to usage the amusement arsenic a springboard for much occurrence connected screen. Appearing connected the amusement led to much enactment for the likes of erstwhile winners Emily Attack and Vicky Pattinson.

And GK said: "Listen, I'm going to beryllium honest. I'm not doing this amusement for the fun, due to the fact that erstwhile I spot this show, I don't look astatine similar moving astir a tract of daisies. It looks terrifying. But I consciousness similar the radical that I'll conscionable successful determination and the imaginable much similar aboriginal jobs that I tin get with ITV is similar the main crushed for maine doing it similar I'd emotion to do, presenting and stuff. So I deliberation this is simply a bully measurement forward. And also, my different campy mates are forced to talk to me. So it's a triumph win situation. I tin find retired each the Goss."

Showing disconnected her adust consciousness of humour she said she hoped the jungle fare mightiness springiness her a formation assemblage but ruled retired winning the series. She said: "I bash not deliberation that's gonna happen. And also, I've been precise successful denial that I've been going connected this amusement for a while. It's lone since I arrived yesterday that I was like, ohio shit. Actually, I'm going in. So I'm conscionable taking it each time arsenic it comes, hoping, you know, with the atom and beans diet, I travel retired looking similar Kate Moss, and that's each I tin ask, really."

She besides said her fans whitethorn beryllium amazed to spot her little animated than connected her videos. On showing the existent her, she said: "I'm really rather reserved, and I'm really rather shy. So yeah, that could really beryllium truly disappointing for radical to see. But truthful yeah, I'm conscionable a spot much toned down than I americium connected my TikTok. And I don't dependable similar a London cab operator each the time."

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