Who is GK Barry? The TikTok star in the I'm A Celeb jungle and her famous girlfriend

Barry, similar past year's rival Nella Rose, gained her notoriety connected societal media.

Here’s what you request to cognize astir the star, from her property to her celebrated girlfriend.

GK Barry was calved Grace Eleanor Keeling in Cambridge connected August 25, 1999, making her 25 years old.

But she didn't enactment successful the metropolis for precise long. At the property of two, she and her household relocated to the Caribbean's British Virgin Islands.

After that, erstwhile she was 8 years old, she moved backmost to the UK and settled successful Nottingham, wherever she attended Nottingham Trent University to survey film.

Barry's enactment connected TikTok has made her a well-known online property and influencer.

The 25-year-old initially gained attraction online successful 2020 acknowledgment to her manner videos connected app.

At first, she did not privation her ain sanction to beryllium known to the world, truthful she went by the the sanction GK Barry, derived from her initials and a friend's past name.

She began hosting the Saving Grace Podcast successful 2022. Since then, she has toured the federation with the Saving Grace Podcast.

Barry is dating footballer Ella Rutherford, who is a striker for Ipswich Town.

It is reported that the brace met connected Instagram but it’s not known however agelong they person been dating, arsenic the brace similar to support their narration backstage (and seldom diagnostic connected each other’s societal media accounts).

Barry antecedently dated chap TikToker Billy Hunt, who she had met done erstwhile Gogglebox prima Joe Baggs.

Barry is nary alien to the satellite of TV. Her archetypal on-screen quality was arsenic a impermanent connected Love Island’s Aftersun successful 2023, though she had antecedently worked down the scenes connected assorted programmes.

The Cambridge-born influencer past participated arsenic a contestant connected The Weakest Link and has appeared connected surface for Channel 4’s Stand Up To Cancer.

In 2024, she made a scope of TV appearances, including competing connected The Wheel and becoming a impermanent panellist connected Loose Women.

After appearing arsenic a impermanent connected Ant and Dec's Instagram Live amusement 2 years ago, Barry says she is anxious to yet conscionable them successful person.

“Too close I’m a ace fan,” says Barry. “They (Ant & Dec) went: ‘What is simply a GK Barry?’, and present we person gone from that to maine being connected the show. It has gone afloat circle.

“I can’t hold to conscionable them successful Australia successful the jungle. I americium besides excited to conscionable everyone connected the programme, arsenic the formed is ever truthful amazing.”

The TikTok star, who says she is terrified of “everything”, has to flooded a batch of phobias during her clip connected I’m A Celebrity.

“I haven’t slept successful a month. I americium frightened of the Trials and I americium genuinely frightened of everything. The eating proceedings to maine is the worst happening you tin bash to a quality being. You besides don’t cognize who you are going to click with either but hopefully, aft the archetypal week, I volition settee successful nicely.”

Barry has said she volition miss her woman and feline the astir during her clip successful the jungle.

“When you are missing location and each you privation is your comfortableness people, past that volition beryllium hard if they are not there,“ she added.

“But my woman is besides precise excited for maine and thinks I volition bash truly well.”

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! airs connected weekdays and Sunday astatine 9pm connected ITV