I’m A Celeb star Tony Bellew broke shows rules in unaired ‘incident’

The 2023 series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! might have officially concluded last year after an emotional grand finale, but the campmate drama hasn't yet subsided.

That's because professional boxer Tony Bellew broke a very specific rule during his time Down Under.

This bombshell was revealed by the 41-year-old's former I'm a Celeb campmate, Eastenders' star Danielle Harold, during an appearance on Loose Women following her return to the UK.

Apparently, according to the actor, only a handful of the campmates were aware that Tony had secretly broken the vital rule - but the scenes ultimately didn't air on television.

During their stint in the jungle, they are not permitted to know the time - so much so that even hosts Ant and Dec have to cover up the faces on their watches when they enter the camp to reveal which contestants will be doing the Bushtucker Trials or are being eliminated.

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Danielle revealed, however, that while she and many of her fellow campmates would often attempt to predict the time, Tony always seen to know it exactly.

In fact, she claimed that his predictions were so bang on, that she quickly realised there was no way he could have known without being told.

Speaking on Loose Women, Danielle revealed exactly how Tony could have gathered this exclusive intelligence.

"Tony actually nicked a stopwatch from the games," she said.

"So I was going, what time do you reckon it is and he's like quarter past seven. I was like, how do you know that?

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"I didn't know about the stopwatch, the only person in camp who didn't!"

She also added that he'd told her that she just had to be a 'human sundial'.

The news comes just days after series champion Sam Thompson dropped the blind-siding bombshell that he'd has his jungle winnings taken off him by producers.

Appearing on This Morning earlier this week, 31-year-old Made In Chelsea star Sam told his former campmate and daytime presenter Josie Gibson that he wasn't permitted to keep his jungle keepsakes.

"I didn't get to keep anything!" he told viewers. "They wouldn't let me keep anything."

The star went on to reveal that the colossal sceptre was taken off him as he tried to work out how to bring it through airport security in Australia.

He said: "I don't have anything to show for it."

Topics: ITV, TV And Film, Im A Celebrity

Rhianna Benson

Rhianna is an Entertainment Journalist at LADbible Group, working across LADbible, UNILAD and Tyla. She has a Masters in News Journalism from the University of Salford and a Masters in Ancient History from the University of Edinburgh. She previously worked as a Celebrity Reporter for OK! and New Magazines, and as a TV Writer for Reach PLC.

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