Angry I’m A Celeb viewers slam ‘low-cost’ Brexit jokes about Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage’s military of followers are irate immediately after he was instantly the butt of a sequence of Brexit-related jokes on the primary night time of I’m A Celebrity.

ITV viewers have additionally laid into Ant and Dec after they gleefully made a ‘far proper’ joke inside minutes of Sunday’s present beginning.

Some mentioned the barrage of Brexit jokes solely makes them need Mr Farage, who’s being paid £1.5million to look on the present, to win extra, amid a boycott by left-wing viewers. 

One critic mentioned: ‘So after 10 minutes.. 2 Brexit insults, Ant & Dec saying GB News solely has 2 viewers, Nigel’s driving was veering ‘too far to the right’. NO insults for different contestants? He was invited by a far left present to ridicule him… unhappy *****!’

Some imagine he’s on the present as a ‘entice’ within the hope he’ll say one thing controversial and be cancelled. 

The gags at his expense – additionally considered as digs of Britons who voted Brexit – started as quickly as Mr Farage, 59, was dropped off within the outback the place he met This Morning’s Josie Gibson, 38, who made a quip about Brexit simply moments later. 

‘It’s one thing totally different in life, it’s an journey. It’s a problem, it’s not going to be straightforward, however why not?’ mentioned Farage, as Ms Gibson defined that she was ‘petrified.’ She responded: ‘It can’t be worse than Brexit.’ 

Farage mentioned: ‘Oh, didn’t take lengthy did it? Didn’t take lengthy. I had a sense we’d get a little bit of that,’ to which Ms Gibson insisted that she was ‘only joking.’

Minutes later Mr Farage needed to drive 4×4 with Josie and TikTok star Nella Rose. Ant and Dec did not miss a beat – saying: ‘Is it me, or did he veer only a bit too far to the appropriate?’, Dec mentioned.   

And shortly after that Ant & Dec took a swipe at rival channel GB News, which Nigel Farage is taking a break from to look within the jungle. 

Following some viewers declaring they might boycott the present as a result of former Brexit leaders look Dec, 48, mentioned: ‘The man who had received everybody speaking, Nigel Farage,’.

‘Now, Nigel isn’t just recognized for his controversial political profession, he is additionally received his personal present on GB information.’ 

Adding: ‘Of course he will not be presenting that present over the subsequent three weeks, so we might wish to take this chance to apologise to all of GB News viewers.’ 

With Ant quipping: ‘Sorry Keith, Sorry Linda’ – to roars of laughter from their crew.

In his introduction on the present, Mr Farage acknowledged he was an ‘absolute villain’ to hundreds of thousands, however mentioned he hoped viewers would have the prospect to ‘find the real me’.

He quipped: ‘I dealt with snakes in the European Parliament, I can cope with this too.’

Last night time Farage, Gibson and Rose got their first problem to earn time for the opposite batch of celebrities to win their challenges, which might in flip earn all of them meals for the camp.

Wearing a wise pink linen shirt and beige trousers, the previous politician and Ms Rose needed to poke their heads by way of ‘hell holes’ stuffed with snakes to retrieve tokens, utilizing their tongues to maneuver them alongside a steel wire.

‘We just do it and we can move on to the next challenge,’ mentioned a steely Farage.

While Ms Rose did not get any of the tokens, Farage received all three of his, as did Ms Gibson who needed to submerge her head in a barrel.

But Farage, who’s exempt from some trials as a consequence of accidents he sustained throughout a near-fatal 2010 aircraft crash, had extra to beat earlier than he may even enter the camp.

He and Ms Rose needed to then sit at the back of a burnt out truck, stuffed with gunge and creepy crawlies, whereas looking for tokens tied onto a rope.

Ms Rose managed to get all three of her tokens whereas Farage and Ms Gibson received two every, incomes seven minutes for his or her fellow celebrities to finish their trials.

And as soon as lastly within the camp, Farage was seen chatting to meals critic Grace Dent – who it emerged had beforehand joked about his aircraft crash.

At the time the restaurant critic, 50, shared to Twitter: ‘I hope none of the people who saved Nigel Farage’s life immediately have been pesky immigrants.’

The politician, who has been extremely essential of immigration ranges to Britain, was so badly injured he underwent a neck reconstruction and had his leg in plaster for a yr.

And as soon as lastly within the camp, Farage was seen chatting to meals critic Grace Dent – who it emerged had beforehand joked about his aircraft crash.

At the time the restaurant critic, 50, shared to Twitter: ‘I hope none of the people who saved Nigel Farage’s life immediately have been pesky immigrants.’

The politician, who has been extremely essential of immigration ranges to Britain, was so badly injured he underwent a neck reconstruction and had his leg in plaster for a yr.

And extra fireworks are anticipated with Tony Bellew, 40, set to enter the camp and ruffle just a few feathers.

The former cruiserweight title successful boxer could possibly be concerned in a Brexit bust-up with Nigel Farage, 59, over his political opinions.

In 2022, Tony branded Nigel an ‘absolute maniac’ for his opinion on immigration.

Tony hit out on the politician for his video message that he posted on-line discussing figures from the Office of National Statistics that recommended London, Birmingham and Manchester have been all classed as minority white cities.

At the time, Nigel defined: ‘There is a large change within the identification of our nation by way of immigration.

In response to Nigel’s message, Tony hit again and wrote: ‘Why does somebody’s color matter? Who cares in case your white, black, yellow or pink? All that issues is are they good or no good individuals.

‘Learn to see individuals for who they’re and never what they appear to be! It’s cos of individuals such as you that racism nonetheless exists! Absolute maniac you might be’.