I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! star Dean McCullough’s mum is preparing to person a connection with big Ant McParlin aft helium was ‘hard’ connected her son.
The BBC Radio 1 DJ, 32, entered the campy arsenic 1 of 12 celebrities competing connected the existent play of the long-running ITV bid past week.
Although Dean archetypal endeared himself with viewers for delivering a Wagatha Christie quip to Coleen Rooney and sharing details of his IBS issues during the archetypal eating challenge, the tide of nationalist sentiment rapidly turned.
Being voted by the nationalist to bash six of the archetypal 9 Bushtucker Trials, Dean struggled with most, breaking down successful tears and adjacent ending immoderate early.
Viewers besides noticed Ant seemed fed up with him not pursuing through, with the big past admitting: ‘My annoyance came crossed connected surface and I was rather unprofessional and I’m not blessed astir it.’
Now Dean’s mum Ann has said she’s not blessed with however Ant has been treating her son.
Landing successful Australia wearing a T-shirt with a photograph of her lad connected it, the 55-year-old gave the big a heads up.
‘I deliberation Ant’s been a wee spot hard connected him,’ she said erstwhile speaking to the Daily Mail.
‘I’m going to person to person a connection with Ant astir that later.’
She went connected to talk astir however ‘awful’ it had been watching her lad successful the amusement aft he’d experienced ‘such a hard fewer years’.
‘It’s hard to ticker him bash the Trials. I had him warned though, there’s thing successful that Jungle that’s going to termination you, bash it, conscionable get implicit yourself bash it,’ she said.
‘The moments helium shouted I’m A Celebrity were the ones I was hiding down a cushion. Me and the 2 dogs begging, “Don’t accidental the words, delight don’t accidental the words”.’
However, Ann said she believed the crushed her lad was repeatedly being chosen to undertake trials was due to the fact that helium was ‘good to look at, is bully amusive and is enjoying each azygous infinitesimal of it’.
She jokingly added his fake teeth were ‘designed to chew down connected cockroaches and bugs’.
Addressing Dean’s run-in with Coronation Street prima Alan Halsall, Ann besides said it was ‘hard to watch’ and said Alan ‘didn’t truly springiness him overmuch clip to aftermath up’.
Ann besides said that portion her lad was a ‘team subordinate and loves everybody’, helium was intelligibly ‘starstruck’ by Coleen Rooney.
Her comments travel aft Ant & Dec begged viewers to halt voting for Dean to undertake the trials arsenic they weren’t ‘getting to cognize the others’.
‘It’s bully to spot different faces down there. This is not a idiosyncratic thing. It’s not astir Dean. It’s astir america and conscionable seeing antithetic radical from the amusement being featured,’ Ant said connected I’m A Celebrity Unpacked.
‘Some people, unfortunately, aren’t getting [airtime]. I’d similar to spot Barry [McGuigan] bash a trial, I’d similar to spot Melvin [Odoom] down there, Oti [Mabuse]!
‘This happens each twelvemonth erstwhile idiosyncratic gets voted aggregate times, you conscionable get to a constituent wherever you spell “Who’s inactive voting for Dean?” I don’t get it.’
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! continues contiguous astatine 9pm connected ITV1.
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