I'm A Celebrity's Nigel Farage could face a bust up with ex-boxer Tony Bellew - after old online messages surfaced showing him branding Farage "a maniac".
Bellew hit out at the Brexit campaigner in response to a video message Nigel shared online in November 2022, where he discussed figures from the Office of National Statistics that suggested London, Birmingham and Manchester were now all classed as minority white cities. In the video, former politician Nigel says: "There is a massive change in the identity of our country through immigration."
Nigel's comments could come back to haunt him, with the UKIP frontman already branding himself "the ultimate villain" in his I'm A Celebrity introduction.
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Yet Bellew blasted his comments and urged people to ignore Farage's opinion which helps to divide Britain. On Twitter /X Bellew responded to Farage's video by saying: “Why does someone’s colour matter? Who cares if you're white, black, yellow or pink? All that matters is are they good or no good people! Learn to see people for who they are and not what they look like! It’s cos of people like you that racism still exists! Absolute maniac you are!"
Bellew, who will enter the camp as a latecomer alongside jockey Frankie Dettori, is not the first campmate who could potentially clash with Farage. In the past, Fred Sirieux once branded the ex-UKIP boss in 2017 a “coward who likes attention”.
In the first episode of I'm A Celebrity on ITV, hosts Ant and Dec also appeared to take a swipe at Nigel Farage with a cheeky dig at the politician's presenter role on GB News. Opening the programme, Dec explained: "There's the man who's got everyone talking. Nigel Farage. Nigel is now, not just known for his controversial political career, he's also got his own show on GB News. Now of course, he won't be presenting that show over the next three weeks. So we'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to all of GB News viewers." Yet in their cheeky Geordie humour, Ant then quipped: "Sorry Keith, sorry Linda."
Ant and Dec faced a huge backlash last week over the decision to let the controversial former politician fly out to the jungle, with some fans threatening to boycott the show before it even began. It has been rumoured that production bosses have paid Farage over £1.5million to join this year's list of famous faces. More than 1,000 people have sent complaints to Ant and Dec who are already down under ahead of filming and further celebrity arrivals.
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