I’m A Celebrity’s Nella Rose challenged the jungle’s most controversial campmate Nigel Farage over his anti-immigration stance.
The former politician and UKIP leader’s inclusion in the ITV reality show has sparked huge backlash, with a campaign launched to have him booted from the series over his divisive politics.
Presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly made a savage dig about Farage, 59, moments into the new series, while Josie Gibson also mocked his Brexit campaign.
Now, YouTuber Nella, who has also locked horns with Fred Sirieix, has confronted the GB News host, over his right-wing immigration policies.
Farage was a key player in Brexit, including his party releasing an anti-immigrant poster that suggested that immigration was at ‘Breaking Point’ as part of the Leave campaign in 2016.
The Leave campaign won and Brexit was eventually passed (though Northern Ireland is still without a government over DUP complaints about the sea border), and on Sunday night Josie mocked Farage over his role in the campaign.
Asking Farage if he was anti-immigrant, the 26-year-old continued: ‘It must be [true]. Why don’t Black people like you?’
Farage claimed: ‘You’d be amazed, they do. If you came with me through south London, you’d be astonished.’
She later asked: ‘So everyone hates you for no reason? Not that everyone hates you, that was so bad. Sorry.’
He responded: ‘You can disagree with somebody, but to chuck around accusations the way they’ve been chucked around is grossly unfair.
‘Anti-immigrant, right? No, no, all I’ve said is we cannot go on with the numbers coming to Britain that are coming.’
Nella continued: ‘I’m one of the numbers?”
Farage replied: ‘So that’s it then, should it be 5million a year, 10million… you don’t seem to understand.’
Tackling him head-on, Nella said: ‘Those immigrants that are coming in, I came in.’
Nella then asked Farage what was ‘so wrong’ about immigrants, pointing out that they are a ‘good thing’ and have contributed massively to British society.
Farage claimed: ‘Good thing, unless you want a GP appointment…’
Putting him in his place, she continued: ‘I’m stopping you getting a GP appointment? You’re not getting an appointment because the NHS is lacking funding.
‘I bet you anything if every single immigrant or from immigrant descent was to leave the UK, all your doctors, go… most of your doctors are Asian right? Most of your nurses are African women, right?
‘You want us gone, that’s all I understood.’
While Farage protested, the pair eventually decided to ‘agree to disagree.’
Nella concluded that she ‘really liked’ Farage in the jungle and wanted to get to the bottom of why he was universally hated.
She added: ‘We don’t have to come to a common ground. You probably like a lot of things that I don’t like. And I probably like a lot of things that you don’t like…we can have these conversations.’
As well as viewers, celebrities have slammed Farage’s casting in I’m A Celebrity, with Lorraine Kelly saying on her chat show she ‘personally thinks it is wrong’ for him to be in the jungle.
‘I think it’s very bizarre,’ she added and predicted – correctly – that he’d rule himself out of certain trials for health reasons.
Jason Manford also announced his decision to boycott the series again after giving it a miss last year due to Hancock’s inclusion.
So far, this season has suffered from a slump in viewing figures, with the opening episode pulling in an average of 7 million, compared to the 9.1 million who tuned in for the show’s launch last year.
Nella, meanwhile rowed with First Dates’ Fred when he said he could be her dad because of their ages, as he is 51 and she is 26 – but Nella, who lost both her mum and her dad at a young age, was massively hurt by the comment.
While he later profusely apologised, Nella was having none of it, telling him: ‘you’re not going to little girl me.’
I’m A Celebrity continues tomorrow on ITV and ITVX at 9pm.
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