Strictly's Pete Wicks' tears after animal's death on TV show

Strictly Come Dancing and TOWIE prima Pete Wicks appeared connected Celebrity Island backmost successful 2018, breaking down successful tears implicit an incidental successful campy – portion fans branded him a hypocrite

During his 2018 quality connected Celebrity Island, Strictly Come Dancing's Pete Wicks made a devastating sacrifice that resulted successful a tragic death. The 7 remaining celebrities were hopeless for nutrient erstwhile a pig wandered into their camp, seemingly answering their prayers, reports OK!.

However, Pete, who had precocious go a pescatarian, argued against sidesplitting the magnificent creature, insisting they could past solely connected fish. The TOWIE prima led the pig distant from the camp, but it kept returning, starring him to sanction it Colin successful an effort to humanise it and promote the others to spot it arsenic a favored alternatively than food. While Pete protected Colin from being killed, the pig began to irritate the remainder of the campmates by invading their space. With the celebs starving and successful dire request of food, determination were heated debates astir whether oregon not to devour it.

As the determination was being made, Colin was tied to a histrion connected the formation to forestall it from rummaging done their supplies. Tragically, the pig became frightened portion tied up and ended up with a conception of enactment astir its neck, starring to it accidentally strangling itself to death.

Pete, who had formed a enslaved with Colin and was adjacent seen playing with it similar a dog, was near utterly heartbroken, blaming himself for the untimely death. Tension erupted successful the campy implicit whether they should devour the pig aft its passing. Tearful Pete, on with his campmates, chose not to devour Colin and alternatively gave the pig a oversea burial. Amidst this sombre moment, Antony Agogo remarked off-camera, "It's a bloody pig."

An carnal payment radical slammed the “grotesque” scenes from the show, deeming the decease “highly dubious” and demanded that Channel 4 axe the series. Humane Society International UK applauded Pete’s tender-hearted response, contempt their stance against utilizing animals arsenic entertainment, calling his actions towards Colin “commendable and beautiful.”

Their connection pressed on: “It’s clip for Channel 4 to propulsion the plug connected programmes similar Celebrity Island due to the fact that it truly is grotesque for animals to beryllium made to endure and dice for a TV show. Colin the pig was astir apt placed connected the land to beryllium killed for food, a destiny that helium escaped acknowledgment to Pete Wicks' intervention, but nevertheless Colin tragically ended up dying by strangulation anyhow successful circumstances that look highly dubious and surely would person been achy and frightening for Colin."

The nationalist aired mixed views, with immoderate calling Pete a "hypocrite" pointing retired that helium had antecedently killed a stingray, portion others were little judgemental. One spectator took to Twitter, saying: "LOL Pete Wicks moralising implicit sidesplitting an carnal erstwhile helium stuck a spear done a stingray ! ? Get it connected the barbecue ! celebrityisland."

Another chimed successful with: "So Pete doesn't privation the pig killed but helium was blessed to instrumentality a spike done the stingray's head? #celebrityisland."

A 3rd added their thoughts: "I recovered that remark hilarious, I'm not taking different surviving thing'e s beingness to devour but I'm blessed to barbarically spear a stingray and observe it successful immoderate weird lord of the flies benignant #celebrityisland".