Former I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here contestant GK Barry has dismissed reports that she was paid £150,000 for her appearance, branding the rumours 'a load of s***'. The social media star, whose real name is Grace Keeling, took to TikTok to set the record straight, insisting that the figures quoted by the press are vastly inflated.
'They said I got £150,000,' she said. 'If I got paid 150 thousand Great British pounds to go in that jungle, I wouldn't have even screamed once during a trial. They always overdo it, we don't get paid that much.' The podcaster, who finished fifth in the 2024 series, also hit out at conspiracy theories suggesting the camp is a sound stage or that celebrities retreat to luxury hotels at night.
Describing the harsh realities of jungle life, Keeling revealed that the camp is covered only by a flimsy material, meaning rain soaks everything. 'Our camp got so flooded last year, everything was wet, our sleeping bags, the fire kept going out,' she said, adding that the location is genuinely wild. 'There are animals, you could not find your way through there easily, and we do stay there, we do sleep there.'
Keeling also lifted the lid on a behind-the-scenes secret: a producer known as the 'Voice of God' helps campmates cook obscure rations like eel by instructing them over a tannoy. 'You cook it until you think it's done, and if you go to take it off and it's not done, the voice of God will be like, "that could probably do with 10 more minutes",' she explained.
The gruelling schedule adds to the challenge, with Keeling revealing that days start at 7.30am when Ant and Dec's live broadcast begins, and dinner is often served as late as 8pm or 9pm. After washing up and mandatory bush telegraph sessions, she said, 'I genuinely think we were going to bed at midnight and up again at 6.30am.'
