I'm A Celeb star Dean McCullough admits breaking camp rule with clever gesture

Radio presenter Dean McCullough was the second campmate to leave the I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! jungle over the weekend - and his beloved mum was the first to greet him when he was given the boot

By: irishmirror.ie

Dec 03 2024
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I'm A Celeb star Dean McCullou

Dean McCullough has told of the sweet way he secretly communicated with his mum in the I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! jungle.

The Radio 1 DJ is really close to mum Ann and usually speaks to her every day. He met her at the bridge after she travelled to Australia to support him.

But Dean revealed to The Mirror how when the cameras panned on him in camp when waiting for the trials, he fiddled with his necklace to show his mum watching from home he loved her.

He said: "I had my necklace on the whole time - it’s a St Christopher’s necklace. You might have seen me playing with it when Ant and Dec were revealing who was doing the trials. I had her by my heart throughout and it made me get through it knowing she was watching."

Editorial Use Only Mandatory Credit: Photo by James Gourley/ITV/REX/Shutterstock (14955745i) Dean McCullough with his mother Ann 'I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!' TV show, Series 24, Australia - 01 Dec 2024

He added: "She’s so proud of me, and she’s glad to have me back. We speak every day, every single day and it was weird not being able to speak to her."

Ann is a big defender of her son after he came under fire from Ant McPartlin for a perceived lack of effort in the trials. When Ann flew into Brisbane, she said she wanted to speak to the presenter to give him a piece of her mind. But Ann said: "I think Ant’s been a wee bit hard on him. I’m gonna have to have a wee word with Ant about that, maybe later."

Dean told the Mirror this week how the rainy conditions in the jungle were so bad that campmates are getting trench foot. As part of an exclusive interview with The Mirror, Dean opened up about how gruelling the recent storms really were.

"Imagine the worst camping trip you’ve ever been on. You think it’s going to be gorgeous, then everything gets wet and you’re stuck there for weeks. Nothing ever dries out," he says.

The Irish star was the second contestant to be given the boot from the jungle (Image: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

"It’s kind of a thing now in camp where if you don’t have trench foot, you’re kind of not cool. It was a real thing, and it does bring the mood down. Me and Coleen were both like: 'when are we going to get a chance to do some sun bathing?'"

He says that one night the rain got so bad they all had to shelter in the Bush Telegraph for 45 minutes. "All our crocodile tail for dinner was ruined, so they gave us tofu instead," he says. "If that’s not a short change, I don’t know what is…from crocodile tail to tofu.

"I’m from Belfast, and I live in Manchester, the two wettest places in the UK. I will never whinge about that rain ever again. It was biblical." Dean was the second celeb to leave the camp after Jane Moore. Tulisa has since left.

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