Newtownabbey DJ Dean McCullough and Coronation Street star Alan Halsall have come to blows in ITV’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, after the presenter accused the actor of not giving him enough time to wake up.
In scenes which aired on Saturday night, the two men got into a spat after Dean was accused of not pulling his weight following camp dinner.
Following a huge helping of junk food won by former Love Island star Maura Higgins and television personality Richard Coles in the latest trial, the sleepy Early Breakfast host decided to take a nap.
However, with chores still to do, Loose Woman Jane Moore had to go and collect firewood, but confessed in keeping with camp rules: “I can’t do it on my own”.
Watching Jane head off on her own, Alan, who is best known for his role as Tyrone in the long-running ITV soap, decided to take the reins and wake Dean up so he could help out with his allocated jungle chores – but was greeted by a less than enthused campmate.
“You don’t fancy it? No?,” Alan is heard asking the Newtownabbey man who appeared to be fast asleep.
When he got little response from Dean, Alan then decided to go down with Jane to help her so she wasn’t alone.
As Dean headed to join Alan and Jane, he said to Alan: “You can go back now.”
Alan explained: “I was trying to wake you up as soft as I could.”
But it seems the explanation didn’t go over well with the Radio 1 star, claiming the Coronation Street star “didn’t give him a minute”.
“Listen to me. If you’re gonna wake me up, you need to give me a minute, alright? It takes a couple of minutes for my contact lenses to get back working again, alright, so you don’t need to turn around to me and say ‘do you not fancy it?’ ok? And then turn around and walk away,” he said.
Alan explained: “I’ve listened to you, Jane was halfway down here, that’s why I went…”
Dean said: “Ok I get that but you need to give me a minute mate”
Elsewhere in camp, the secrets of the luxury Junkyard – home to Maura, Richard and Dean – were finally revealed after Wagatha Christie, aka Coleen Rooney rumbled them.
Invited down to present her findings, the wife of former England captain Wayne Rooney admitted: “I’m not convinced that you are actually in the junkyard.”
An amused Dean was then unable to keep a straight face, as he pointed and said: “Wagatha Christie strikes again!”
As the main camp made the point Dean had now given the game away, Tulisa added: “You have officially been rumbled in the jungle!”
Richard came clean, revealing: “Circumstances in the junkyard are not quite as tough as we’d led you to believe.”
From then, the revelations came thick and fast. Dean and Maura revealed they had a bubble bath and Melvin found out Maura and Richard were enjoying cheese sandwiches and tea whilst he got dunked on during the other day’s challenge.
Shocked, Melvin told Maura: “But I heard you crying!”
To which Maura replied: “I’m a good actress.”