Tensions reached boiling point in the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! camp on Monday's episode, as model Kelly Brook found herself at the centre of two explosive rows, first over chores and then with a controversial wake-up call for campmate Shona McGarty.
A Harsh Jungle Alarm Call
In a tense scene, Kelly Brook, 46, decided it was time for lunch to be prepared and marched over to where Shona McGarty, 32, was sleeping in her hammock. The former model began dramatically swinging the hammock from side to side in a bid to rouse the EastEnders star.
Demanding Shona get up to make food, Kelly was heard saying, 'get up you lazy cow' while trying to swing her out of the sleeping spot. Although Shona appeared to laugh off the incident at the time, her true feelings were revealed later in the private Bush Telegraph confessional.
She admitted that she felt Kelly's behaviour 'wasn't very nice,' a sentiment that was loudly echoed by viewers watching at home.
Viewer Backlash on Social Media
The public reaction was swift and severe, with many taking to X (formerly Twitter) to declare they would have reacted very differently to such a confrontational awakening.
Posts from furious viewers included:
- 'LAZY COW?? I'd be throwing hands;'
- 'Shona better than me if I got woke up like that and called a lazy cow I'd be swinging;'
- 'She would have been drop kicked across the camp while I was still laying in my hammock if I was shona! People need to be woken up nicely!'
- 'If Kelly woke me up like that and called me a lazy cow, I'd have lost my s**t.'
The consensus was clear: Kelly's approach had crossed a line for many fans of the ITV reality show.
Earlier Tensions Over Cooking and Cleaning
This clash came mere minutes after Kelly was embroiled in another heated exchange, this time over camp chores with YouTube star AngryGinge (Morgan Burtwistle, 24). The row centred on the group's decision to eat their breakfast rice rations from their mugs instead of their designated food containers.
AngryGinge, who was on washing-up duty, complained it doubled his workload, stating: 'Can we please stop eating rice out of cups?... If we could just have the rice in the container, and the beans in the container, that's ten things.'
Kelly and Martin Kemp, 64, protested, with Kelly explaining that eating from a cup made it feel 'more like breakfast.' AngryGinge hit back: 'So we're double the washing up because it feels a bit more like breakfast?'
Kelly later defended the practice in the Bush Telegraph, citing hygiene concerns: 'If you’re leaving food in camp, by the time you get back to your tin at lunch time, it’s gonna be covered in ants. It's really unhygienic.' Her warning proved prescient, as the camp had just discovered rats were present after unwashed items were left out overnight.
These back-to-back incidents highlight how the pressures of jungle life and mundane chores like cooking and cleaning are beginning to fray nerves among the celebrity campmates, promising more drama to come as the series continues.
