It was the third day in camp and the celebrities have begun sharing details about their romance lives — Tulisa revealed she’s been celibate for three years, GK Barry spoke about coming out to her parents and Coleen Rooney reflected on the early days of her marriage to Wayne.
Halsall — who plays Tyrone in Coronation Street — admitted he has never done dating apps. The actor had been married to former Corrie star Hudson and they share their 11-year-old daughter Sienna-Rae.
He told Dean McCullough and Tulisa: “Lucy left Corrie in about 2005, then we got married in 2009. We then split up after Sienna was born. I love just being dad.”
He added: “I’ve never done dating apps, I don’t even know what I’d do!”
The Corrie stars split in 2018 after nearly nine years of marriage.
Alan Halsall and Lucy-Jo Hudson have split. (Getty)
I’m a Celebrity jungle highlights
Love lives
Also, GK Barry put her heart on the line talking about her romance with footballer Ella Rutherford for the first time in the jungle.
She told the camp: “It was by accident I found Ella, through a mutual friend and then I really liked her the first day I met her but I’d never told my parents.”
Elsewhere in the show, Tulisa didn’t mind sharing she isn’t an overly sexualised person. She said: “I’m a slow, slow burner, I’ve been celibate for over three years.”
Quitting I’m a Celebrity trial
I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here’s Dean doing the trial. (Instagram)
One of the other biggest talking points from the show was Dean McCullough shouting “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here” during the trial after only getting two stars.
Ant and Dec gave him the questions they would have asked him in the trial The Sinister Sarcophagus — and he would have got them right, meaning he would have got more meals for camp.
He wailed as he undertook the Bushtucker trial in Tuesday’s episode — and unsurprisingly he is now doing the next Bushtucker trial Drown in the Dumps with GK Barry.
Among the complaints of course was Rooney’s rival Rebekah Vardy who blasted McCoughlin as “irritating” and “tiresome” in her latest newspaper column for The Sun. She doesn’t like how he’s been — in her words — “cosying up to Coleen”.
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Dean McCoughlin and GK Barry are doing the trial
Dean McCoughlin and GK Barry must do the trial, Drown in the Dumps.
After both of their screaming in the trials so far, it promises to be an exciting watch!
Jane Moore admits she’s jealous over Coleen’s pillow
Jane Moore confesses she was feeling jealous over Coleen’s pillow.
She says: “I was quite jealous about Coleen’s pillow. So I’ve stolen it!”
So what did the celebs get?
Alan receives a golf putter.
GK receives a cosy dressing gown.
Coleen receives a personalised pillow with a family photo on it.
Danny receives a lilo.
Dean receives a moisturiser.
Melvin receives a personalised pillow, with both his girlfriend and celebrity crush Carol Vorderman on it,
Tulisa receives an inflatable chair.
Oti receives the gift of music, being entitled 3 plays of her favourite song ‘Bon Jovi- It’s My Life’.
Tulisa is desperate to be camp chef after cooking disaster
After only getting two stars you would think that lack of food would be the only problem.
However, Tulisa is fuming she isn’t the camp chef — as she hopes she will be out of camp leader position asap so she can take on the role.
The female boss doesn’t mind telling the new chefs that the meat was not up to standards. “It’s tough,” she complains.
In the Bush Telegraph, she demands: “Let me cook it! Please!”
I’m A Celeb stars ‘gutted’ to miss out on Barry McGuigan’s luxury item
Alan and Danny admit they were really gutted to not get Barry McGuigan’s luxury item.
The Corrie actor says: “We’re gutted about this one because Barry needed a pick me up.”
But it was eight out of 10 so overall they were very happy with the result, plus they managed to get their own
Luxury items won and lost
Here are the items won and lost:
WON
Coleen
Alan
Dean
Danny
GK Barry
Melvin
Tulisa
LOST
Jane
Barry
Alan Halsall and Danny Jones must win luxury items
Alan Halsall and Danny Jones must win the campmate’s luxury items in today’s challenge. In a twist this year, the items have been chosen by their loved ones back home.
“I think it’ll be decided by my little girl so it will mean a lot,” Alan admits.
Tulisa has been celibate for three years
Tulisa Contostavlos – I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here 2024. (ITV)
Tulisa tells her I’m a Celebrity campmates that she has been celibate.
Alan, Dean and Tulisa are opening up about their relationships after the Corrie actor says he’s been married before.
Alan spoke about his split from his ex wife Lucy Jo Hudson. He says: “Lucy left Corrie in about 2005, then we got married in 2009. We then split up after Sienna was born. I love just being dad.”
He adds: “I’ve never done dating apps, I don’t even know what I’d do!”
Tulisa shares she doesn’t date much and has in fact been celibate for three years. She says: “I’m a slow, slow burner, I’ve been celibate for over three years.”
She adds: “I don’t feel like for me there is any feeling to it. I’m not an overly sexualised person. It’s about the connection and feeling. Wanting to express my feelings for them.”
Tulisa confesses she feels “physically sick” at the idea of having sex with a stranger.
Coleen Rooney surprised Wayne Rooney got her name tattooed on him at 17
Coleen Rooney speaks about her early days with her husband Wayne — including the time where he got her name tattooed on him at 17.
The WAG reveals her surprise when she got a call from Wayne’s cousin before a friend’s 18th birthday, asking if she spelt her name with 1L or 2. Asking why, she says she was told: “I’m just with our Wayne in town, he’s getting a tattoo.”
She says she had “not long been going with him”. She adds: “I go to this party later on, and he’s going to everybody like this [mocks showing her arm]. He’d got my name tattooed on him! At 17!”
She adds of their early days: “I was still at school when he was playing for Everton. I used to walk out and all the girls were going, ‘Whose is that car there?’ And he was in a Bentley and something else and there’s Wayne in the passenger seat with his arm out and one of the players like Thomas Gravesen.”
GK Barry speaks about Ella Rutherford romance
GK Barry opens up about her romance with footballer Ella Rutherford for the first time in the jungle.
She tells the camp: “It was by accident I found Ella, through a mutual friend and then I really liked her the first day I met her but I’d never told my parents.”
She adds: “I’d mentioned, ‘Oh I’m just going to see my friend Ella’ or ‘I’m staying round Ella’s’ so they’d heard her name.”
GK Barry reveals her parents were really relaxed about it.“They just love her, they never had an issue with it.” And she jokes: “To be fair I feel like the closet may have been glass!”
GK Barry opens up about trolling
GK Barry – I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here 2024. (ITV)
GK Barry admits she can’t tear herself away from the comments.
Fellow Loose Women star Jane Moore is quick to question her on why she chooses to read what strangers write about her online.
She says: “Would you go into a crowded bar and go up to someone you don’t know and say, ‘Excuse me, what do you think of me?’”
GK Barry says: “No, never.”
Jane replies: “So then why would you do it online?”
However, in the Bush Telegraph, GK Barry admits it’s not that easy. She says: “I envy Jane back in the day… You’d have to phone up to make a complaint. Take me back to Jane’s day. I miss it. I wasn’t born!”
Dean McCullough quit but he would have got the questions right
Ant and Dec had great fun asking I’m a Celebrity’s Dean McCullough all the questions he would have been asked — and he got them right!
Well, most of them.
Ant and Dec had a good giggle about it. Dec said he wanted to be able to watch him break the news to camp. Dean hit back at the cheeky presenters — making them laugh even more.
“You are sick,” he says. “I’m glad it’s raining today so you can’t play golf.”
I’m a Celebrity’s Dean McCullough quits Bushtucker trial
I’m a Celebrity’s Dean McCullough has broke down in tears and shouted “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here.”
He only got two stars.
Dean McCullough takes a pop at Ant and Dec ahead of trial
Dean McCullough is not impressed to find out he’s got to answer Egyptian-themed questions and do stars with his mouth. “Not the teeth!” He complains.
The radio star hit out at the cheeky presenters Ant and Dec. “You’re so extra this series,” he says of the presenters.
Dean McCullough is horrified by idea of trial
Dean isn’t too impressed to find out the trial is going to be like being in a “big coffin”.
Ahead of the trial, Dean says: “I’m sh**ing myself.”
“This is not what I expected this early on,” he says. “The pressure I’m feeling to bring back stars is unbelievable. People want a food belly. That’s where the pressure is coming from.”
GK Barry screams over leech on her hand
GK Barry screams her head off when there was a leech on her hand.
Once it was removed, the social media influencer pokes fun at herself. She says: “At least we all stayed cool and calm.”
Behind the scenes, Ant and Dec don’t mind pointing out this was not true. “Not really,” Dec says.
Possums seen in camp
Two possums were spotted heading into camp. I’m a Celeb bosses playfully named them “little Ant and Dec”.
Coleen Rooney squats in bikini top in jungle
Coleen Rooney has been squatting on her own in the jungle, away from the rest of camp.
She was working out in her bikini top and red trousers. Feeling a little shy, she admits she didn’t want to be watched by the rest of camp.
There was one flaw with her plan.
“The whole world has seen them now anyway,” she admits.
I’m A Celebrity camp chores
Tulisa and Alan are assigning the camp chores — but Dean and GK Barry were fuming with their new jobs.
“There is some pressure on to get it right,” Alan admits.
Camp chefs — Melvin and Danny.
Camp maintenance — Jane and Dean
Washing up — Coleen and GK Barry
Water — Barry and Oti
Who is GK Barry?
GK Barry – I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here 2024. (ITV)
Only 25 years old, GK Barry has built a career in the spotlight after rocketing to fame on TikTok by documenting her daily life as a student at Nottingham Trent University.
The star has branched out from social media as she also appears on ITV daytime chat show Loose Women as a guest panellist since this summer in August, and now looks to be adding reality television to her showbiz CV.
Professionally she has become known as GK Barry but her real name is Grace Eleanor Keeling. She made history as the youngest ever panellist on Loose Women earlier this year, and has 498,000 subscribers on YouTube, 852,000 followers on Instagram, and 3.6 million on TikTok. The social media star is also an ambassador for Ann Summers and PrettyLittleThing.
The influencer is in a relationship with England footballer Ella Rutherford and she told the Loose Women panel that they moved in after the first date.
She’s perhaps best known for her Saving Grace podcast that is billed as a “rollercoaster of emotions” and her own “wild tales of university escapades to laugh-out-loud moments”. As well as talking about her own life, she interviews celebrity guests including Alan Carr who made a recent appearance.
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