“I had death threats and DMs (direct messages) and comments, and my team were so worried about me.”
Radio star Dean McCullough has said he felt “an immense amount of sadness” when he realised the online trolling he had faced following his appearance on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! had changed him.
McCullough, 33, from Northern Ireland, was the second campmate to be eliminated from the ITV entertainment series last year and he said viewers saw a “two-dimensional person that just got picked to do all the trials”.
He told ITV show Lorraine: “When I saw all the campmates flying to Australia this year, it made me feel quite sad.
“I actually went for a walk with my boyfriend, and we went to this tree that I sat at nearly every day, sort of manifesting the jungle, because I’d had the meeting with the team just around the corner, and I really wanted to do it.
“I was so grateful just to be asked, and sat at this tree every day with my dog, and I was just… praying that it would all come together.
“We went back to the same tree and I just had this immense amount of sadness, because the person I was flying to Australia was not the person I was coming back because of the trolling.
“I had death threats and DMs (direct messages) and comments, and my team were so worried about me.
“Everyone had my back in the jungle because they couldn’t believe it, because they experienced the real me, and they got to see all parts of me, whereas I think people at home got to see this like two-dimensional person that just got picked to do all the trials.”
During Thursday’s instalment of the 2025 series, new entrants Vogue Williams and Tom Read Wilson joined the 10 other campmates in the jungle.
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