I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! star Grace Dent has had old tweets she posted about her fellow campmate Nigel Farage resurface as she enters the jungle.
Grace went onto the hit ITV reality show on Sunday (November 19), together with nine other campmates. Amongst those who have bedded down in the Australian wilderness is controversial politician Nigel Farage.
Despite being separated and kept in different teams during Sunday's premiere of the new series, Grace has never been a fan of fellow contestant Nigel. Now, historic posts from the food critic's Twitter account have come to light as the pair set up camp down under.
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Dent, 50, jibed several times at the former UKIP leader, 59, after he survived a near-fatal plane crash in 2010. In the fiasco, the plane that Farage was on became tangled with a banner that had been flown on the aircraft which read: "Vote for your country – vote UKIP."
As photos of the crash site began to swarm social media at the time, Grace did not hold back as she gave her thoughts on the debacle. She wrote on the social media channel: "I hope none of the people who saved Nigel Farage's life today were pesky immigrants."
A similar Tweet was posted later in the day, which saw Dent take aim at the politician's Eurosceptic stance. She added: "UKIP claim Nigel Farage crash brought about by non-sensical European laws of gravity."
But despite the humorous tone of the posts, a source close to the GB News host said that he would not be laughing if he saw the tweets. Speaking to The Sun, the insider said: "Nigel is the first one to take the mick out of himself.
"But the truth is that he very nearly died in that crash. He is lucky to be alive. Any joke about the plane crash is crass and poor taste."
The source continued: "No one who saw them will forget the pictures of him being pulled from the wreckage. Nigel is always up for a debate – especially with those who may not like him – but citing the crash is a step too far."
Dent is not the first of this year's campmates to speak out against Farage. Ahead of the show's launch, old tweets from First Dates maitre d' Fred Sirieix emerged where he branded the Reform UK politician a "coward", who liked "the sound of his own voice".
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