I’m A Celeb followers model Dean ‘pathetic’ amid ‘crumpet gate’ after he steals meals from rival campmates and leaves seething Tulisa able to ‘begin a warfare’

I’m A Celeb viewers furiously branded Dean McCullough ‘pathetic’ after he stole treats from his fellow campmates on Friday – branding it ‘crumpet gate’.

The Radio 1 DJ, 32, swiped and hid two crumpets from the rival blue team, which consistes of Tulisa, Alan Halsall and Barry Mcguigan, after they purchased them with jungle dollars. 

Despite Dean finding the prank hysterical, the N-Dubz star was left seething with fans at home declaring she was ‘ready to start a war’ over the delicious dish. 

After the theft was uncovered suspicion immediately fell on Dean, with Tulisa fuming: ‘Just know you’ve got smoke with me if you got done that because I’d never do that to anyone’ 

‘If the crumpets get replaced and it’s he he ha ha, that’s fine. If they don’t get replaced there will be a problem there.’ 

Taking to X viewers fumed:  ‘Dean actually thinks he’s funny hiding a crumpet? He is pathetic’: ‘Does Dean actually think he’s funny hiding a crumpet? What an actual attention seeker’: ‘Dean is a p****. Yes it’s only a crumpet but you don’t steal off your campmates’: ‘Dean gets more and more annoying everyday. No need to hide those crumpets like a child’.

Later in the episode Jane Moore became the first contestant to be voted off and took a swipe at her fellow campmates upon her exit, saying: ‘hard work does not get rewarded’.

The 63-year-old had been living in the Australian jungle for two weeks and despite having the support from her fellow Loose Women panelists, was unable to win the public’s vote.

Jane has been embroiled in a row over ‘ageism’ and ‘sexism’ in the jungle after she was tasked with the chore of doing the camp’s washing up and accused former boxing champion, Barry McGuigan, and the McFly frontman, Danny Jones, of being ageist and sexist for giving her the role because she was an older woman.

Upon her exit she told hosts Ant and Dec: ‘I had three jobs before then, I worked like a dog and then they gave me the washing up so I wasn’t pleased about that. I did a lot down there but hard work doesn’t pay off as I’m the first one out, people don’t notice hard work’.

In a warning to the remaining campmates, she said: ‘The more people get voted off, it will get apparent who isn’t doing that much. 

‘I would like to see the quiet hard workers win, there’s a lot of showmen in there. I want Coleen [Rooney] or Melvin [Odoom] to win, they’re not flamboyant.’

Speaking about her time in the jungle she said: ‘I have lived it and it’s just such a weird and magical experience. People always say it’s the best experience of your life, wouldn’t say that with the rain. Never been so soaked in my life, constantly’. 

‘At least there’s no more washing up, I’m never washing up again. I enjoyed getting to know the other and ask them questions. We’ve all got each other’s back. Them getting to know me was great too, because I’m a journalist they were initially like, “hang on what’s this going to be like?”‘.

‘A lot of them said they talked about things with me they haven’t for years and they felt better for it’.

She was greeted off the I’m A Celebrity bridge by her daughters Ellie, 32, and Grace, 22, whom she shares with her ex-husband of 22 years, Gary Farrow. 

She later Sam Thompson spin-off show Unpacked: ‘I’m not going to sugar coat it I’m really disappointed to be first out because I hoped that people would see how hard I worked and how integral I was to the camp’.

‘I would have liked to have been second or third, I knew I wasn’t going to make it the whole way. But I can’t say that anyone deserved to be out before me. My camp bestie was Danny’

Jane continued: ‘we discussed at one point that maybe we were all getting on too well because viewers like it when there’s drama, but we couldn’t do it.

‘I think you need to ask Melvin if Dean was pulling his weight. There are the show people in the camp, that are providing the entertainment, maybe people that are providing good TV. There are hard workers that allow them to be flamboyant.’

In camp Barry, 63, tried to justify his and Jones’ decision, explaining that since Jane was 62 and a year younger than him, she might want something less strenuous but before he could finish Jane retorted: ‘So ageist and sexist’. 

She said: ‘I’m not upset, I’m just saying it’s women doing the washing up again.’

But Jane continued to complain throughout the week about her role, which frustrated the public, despite her fellow Loose Women panellists speaking out in support on the ITV chat show.

Janet Street-Porter, 77, said: ‘I said to you earlier Coleen, I was a bit unhappy about how they edited about Jane and washing up. When you’re in I’m A Celebrity, everything you say is being recorded and you have no control of what people at home are seeing about you.

Before appearing on the show, Jane told the Mail she was ‘flying the flag for the over sixties’ and went on to start the series skydiving from a helicopter onto the Gold Coast’s Byron Bay.