Ex-I’m A Celebrity star Lady C brands former camp mate a ‘misogynist’ in scathing rant: ‘I was fed up with them!’
Lady Colin Campbell has hit out at one of her former I’m A Celebrity camp mates, as she criticised this year’s series for being “too harmonious”.
The author and socialite, who appeared on the celebrity reality series in 2015, told GB News that one of her fellow contestants was a “misogynist”, and grew “fed up” with all of them by the end of her experience.
Delivering her verdict on the newest set of celebrities, following the elimination of Tulisa Contostavlos, Lady C claimed: “I think it’s a lot more harmonious than the series that I was on, that’s for sure.”
Taking aim at Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne, who she famously clashed with during her stint in the jungle, Lady C fumed: “I think you need more characters like Duncan Bannatyne to set the campmates against the oldest woman in the camp, and show what a jerk and misogynist is, which is what he did so demonstrably well.
“That’s what happened when I was in the camp, and it was all thanks to Duncan Bannatyne.”
Reflecting on whether her series was “good or bad television”, Lady C admitted she has “not watched the series back” in the nine years since it aired.
Lady C revealed: “I didn’t set out to be his target or the victim of any bullying, but I don’t know if it made good or bad television because I’ve never looked at it.
“I saw some of the snippets, and I couldn’t be bothered to look at the rest of it. After I came out, Kieron Dyer had a look at it, he phoned me and he was absolutely outraged on my behalf, because he said they’d cut it in such a way that I looked as if I was being ratty, when in fact I was simply defending myself.”
Despite her experience, Lady C noted how she was “taken into the public’s hearts” and was supported due to her “fiesty” nature.
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Lady C told hosts Bev Turner and Patrick Christys: “It made for good television, and it ultimately did me absolutely no harm because the British people took me to their hearts. The British people like somebody who’s feisty.
“I think each person has the power to be himself or herself, and I’m afraid some of them don’t.”
Defending how she acted on the show, including her refusal to do some of the Bushtucker Trials, Lady C claimed that some camp mates were “playing to the cameras”, rather than being their authentic selves.
She added: “I’m not a professional entertainer, so I was just myself, but some were, and some of them were playing to the cameras in the most ghastly way. And I think the public picked up on who’s authentic and who isn’t.
“But I will say in a particular scene, I had already told the producers that I was not going to be feeding those jerks anymore. I got more meals for them than anybody had, and I was absolutely fed up with them.”
Lady C continued: “After something that had happened when Tony Hadley refused to serve us, when Chris Eubank and me were given a special treat, and I said that I’m not feeding these jerks. And I told the producers, don’t get me nominated for anything else because I’m not playing ball.”
Discussing her refusal to be “buried alive” in one of the trials, Lady C revealed that she had told producers it was the “one thing” she would not do on the show.
She said: “I was supposed to be buried alive, and I had already told the producers, the one thing I would not do was anything to do with burial. My grandfather was murdered, my brother in law was murdered, one of my first cousins was murdered, one of my second cousins was murdered, another one of my first cousins was nearly murdered.
“And my father was shot at point blank range and nearly killed. And I said, no, I cannot do certain things. And that actually rattled me for the day, that they actually had the temerity to ask me to do something that I had said I would never do under any circumstances. But it made for good television.”