I’m A Celebrity’s Ant and Dec hit with Ofcom complaints after Rev Richard Coles joke

I’m A Celebrity hosts Ant and Dec are facing backlash implicit jabs made towards campmate Reverend Richard Coles.

The ITV world bid person been backmost for implicit a week and has already proved a immense occurrence with viewers arsenic Richard, 62, grows his adoring fanbase.

But Ant and Dec whitethorn person got connected the incorrect broadside of immoderate of them aft a bid of quips making amusive of the Church of England priest.

This has resulted successful 70 Ofcom complaints regarding their ‘references to the Bible and to the Christian faith’, the communications regulator told Metro.

During Richard and Maura Higgins archetypal Bushtucker proceedings during Saturday’s occurrence the brace had to tuck into pig’s eyes, cockroaches, vomit fruit, sheep’s encephalon and more.

At the clip Dec quipped ‘More beverage vicar?’, and successful the workplace called the proceedings ‘unholy’. Ant past added ‘Bum-holey’.

But people’s discontent was not capable to deter the presenting duo from taking different jab successful Tuesday night’s episode.

During 1 segment, the brace delivered a unusual mock sermon to the backing of organ pipes.

‘It’s the commencement of a caller time present and the archetypal to aftermath up was Reverend Richard…’ Dec began.

Ant past chimed in: ‘And though the nighttime earlier determination had been acheronian and a plague of insects had been visited upon him. But helium had receiveth a tiny bounty that did sensation of cheese. And now, praise be, helium did emergence again.’

Dec blithely summed up: ‘So fundamentally you are saying Richard had a fright, got immoderate crisps, past had a slumber and got retired of bed?’

To which Ant responded successful his mocking accent: ‘Yes my child.’

But they are risking the further wrath of viewers who person taken a liking to Richard, who was ordained successful 2005 and retired from clerical duties successful 2022.

In the aforesaid episode, Rev Richard had a touching speech with chap campmate Oti Mabuse arsenic she emotionally opened up astir the ‘hell’ she faced during the commencement of her daughter, who was 10 weeks premature.

Richard past provided her with immoderate comfortableness and spoke astir the decease of his spouse David Coles successful 2019, aged 53.

The personage vicar said: ‘I miss him. He’s conscionable near a monolithic spread successful my beingness and I’m surviving my beingness astir that loss.’

Elsewhere, helium amused viewers aft having an absorbing enactment acquisition speech with influencer GK Barry, 25 who is dating footballer Ella Rutherford.

The brace had a candid speech astir their sexuality, erstwhile GK – existent sanction Grace Keeling – asked if helium recovered it ‘quite hard being cheery and doing that job?’

Richard said: ‘No, not astatine all.

‘I’ve ne'er recovered it personally hard astatine all. I’ve ne'er fixed it a moment’s twinge of anxiousness implicit whether God thought it was alright oregon not. That was fine.

‘But whether different radical thought it was alright oregon not, good I’m blessed to person that argument…’

As the speech continued, it yet circled astir to the taxable of scissoring which Richard admitted helium had nary hint about. But helium did importune helium was blessed to support it that way.

But that hasn’t stopped him from making his ain cheeky comments. At 1 constituent GK asked him: ‘Who’s the astir absorbing idiosyncratic you’ve ever met?’

Eventually narrowing it down to whether helium had ever met a Royal household member, Richard replied: ‘Great successful bed…’ arsenic helium started laughing.

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! continues astatine 9pm connected ITV1, STV and ITVX.

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