I am A Celeb viewers accuse ITV present of ‘woke’ bias after Ant and Dec joke about Nigel Farage driving ‘too far to the fitting’ and contestants make ‘low cost’ Brexit jibes

Nigel Farage’s military of followers are irate in the present day after he was instantly the butt of a collection 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 is being paid £1.5million to appear on the show, to win extra, amid a boycott by left-wingers. 

One critic mentioned: ‘So after 10 minutes.. 2 Brexit insults, Ant & Dec saying GB Information solely has 2 viewers, Nigel’s driving was veering “too far to the fitting”. 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 seen 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 completely 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 will possibly’t be worse than Brexit.’ 

Nigel Farage greets Josie Gibson within the outback – moments earlier than she claimed that Brexit was a catastrophe earlier than insisting she was joking

ITV even shared the joke on its I am a Celeb Twitter account

Nigel Farage drove a 4×45 and Ant and Dec joked about him veering to the ‘far proper’

Cheeky: I am A Celeb hosts Ant & Dec took a brutal swipe at rival channel GB Information inside minutes of the ITV collection returning to TV on Sunday night (L-R) Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly 

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 ‘solely 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 fitting?’, 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 would boycott the show as a result of former Brexit leaders look Dec, 48, mentioned: ‘The person 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.’ 

Including: ‘In fact he will not be presenting that present over the following three weeks, so we might wish to take this chance to apologise to all of GB Information 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 tens of millions, however mentioned he hoped viewers would have the prospect to ‘discover the actual me’.

He quipped: ‘I handled snakes within the European Parliament, I can deal with this too.’

Some viewers have been sad with the jokes – and Ant and Dec

Final 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.

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

‘We simply do it and we are able to transfer on to the following problem,’ mentioned a steely Farage.

Whereas 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.

However Farage, who’s exempt from some trials as a result 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, full of gunge and creepy crawlies, whereas trying to find 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.

On the time the restaurant critic, 50, shared to Twitter: ‘I hope not one of the individuals who saved Nigel Farage’s life in the present day have been pesky immigrants.’

The politician, who has been extremely crucial of immigration ranges to Britain, was so badly injured he underwent a neck reconstruction and had his leg in plaster for a 12 months.

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.

On the time the restaurant critic, 50, shared to Twitter: ‘I hope not one of the individuals who saved Nigel Farage’s life in the present day have been pesky immigrants.’

The politician, who has been extremely crucial of immigration ranges to Britain, was so badly injured he underwent a neck reconstruction and had his leg in plaster for a 12 months.

Drama: However as all appears to be going plain crusing between the celebrities, Tony Bellew, 40, (pictured) is about to enter the camp and ruffle a couple of feathers

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

The previous cruiserweight title successful boxer may very well 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 urged London, Birmingham and Manchester have been all classed as minority white cities.

On the time, Nigel defined: ‘There’s 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 folks.

‘Be taught to see folks for who they’re and never what they seem like! It’s cos of individuals such as you that racism nonetheless exists! Absolute maniac you’re’.