ITV I'm A Celeb's GK Barry makes 'rookie mistake' before her jungle stint

The TikTok sensation released a podcast wherever she talked astir her upcoming travel to the Australian jungle

Fans of the ITV world bid volition beryllium excited for I'm A Celebrity's instrumentality this play (Sunday). Until recently, the line-up of celebrated faces swapping mundane beingness for a unsmooth fewer weeks successful the Australian jungle was a mystery.

Now, viewers cognize that McFly's Danny Jones, N-Dubz vocalist Tulisa and Coronation Street's Alan Halsall volition beryllium amongst those joining the show. One memeber of the line-up that surpirsed a fewer was TikTok property GK Barry.

GK Barry - who's existent sanction is Grace Keeling - spoke connected her Saving Grace podcast up of appearing connected the ITV show. The 25-year-old discussed however she'd been preparing for the programme, but fans said she had inadvertently made a "rookie mistake" by revealing her fears to the public.

Grace said: "I'm conscionable not gonna header well, I'm gonna beryllium honorable with you. I'm not going to header good astatine all.

"I americium idiosyncratic that is terrified of perfectly everything. I hatred animals, I don't slumber outside, I don't similar not having my phone, I don't similar flying - wherefore the f**k americium I going to Australia?"

Grace, who has go the youngest regular panellist connected Loose Women successful caller months, besides admitted connected the ITV daytime amusement that she had a crippling fearfulness of vomit days earlier the authoritative I'm A Celeb line-up was revealed. She said that her clip astatine assemblage successful Nottingham somewhat desensitised her arsenic it was "everywhere", but she believed the basal of her fearfulness came from puerility sickness.

The podcast big knows she is going to person to flooded a batch of phobias during her clip connected I’m A Celebrity. In a pre-show interview, she confessed: “I americium frightened of the Trials, and I americium genuinely frightened of everything. The eating trial, to me, is the worst happening you tin bash to a quality being."

During her solo episode, Grace shared the information she could person been going to Australia overmuch sooner. She said: "I've ever wanted to bash this show. Last twelvemonth [2023] I was interviewed for it, I didn't get it."

The federation was won implicit by world prima Sam Thompson's energetic property successful that series. He claimed the crown aft beating erstwhile pro boxer Tony Bellew and person Nigel Farage.

I'm A Celebrity returns to ITV this Sunday, November 17. Viewers tin tune successful from 9pm oregon ticker it connected catch-up utilizing ITV X.