{"id":415672,"date":"2026-04-24T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415672\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:01:09","slug":"david-haye-had-no-ill-intent-amid-im-a-celeb-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/415672\/","title":{"rendered":"David Haye had no \u2018ill intent\u2019 amid I\u2019m A Celeb controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scarlett Moffatt has said she believes David Haye had no \u201cill intent\u201d and does not think he meant to upset people, amid controversy surrounding the boxer\u2019s actions on I\u2019m A Celebrity\u2026 South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Haye, 45, has hit headlines since appearing on the spin-off show, most notably for his feud with campmate Adam Thomas, who said the boxer \u201cbroke\u201d him and pushed him to his limits.<\/p>\n<p>He also left viewers in uproar after his remarks on \u201cugly birds\u201d while discussing his girlfriend Sian Osbourne, telling his campmates he thinks \u201cmost super-pretty girls are idiots\u201d as they \u201cdon\u2019t have to have a personality\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on ITV\u2019s Good Morning Britain ahead of the live finale on Friday, Moffatt addressed the controversy her campmate has faced since appearing on the all-star show.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old said: \u201cI genuinely got on with everyone in there, and I think I was quite vocal in when I thought (Haye) was taking it too far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would just say, right stop now, David, or \u2018you need to apologise\u2019. I\u2019m not defending him, but I don\u2019t think there was ever any ill intent there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI genuinely don\u2019t think he meant to upset people the way that he did, but his delivery is shocking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During her stint on the ITV reality show, viewers saw Moffatt tell Haye \u201cyou can\u2019t say that\u201d as he made his \u201cugly birds\u201d comments, and told the boxer to \u201cstop it\u201d when he was criticising Waterloo Road star Thomas for opting out of a bushtucker trial for \u201cnot feeling well\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/scarlett-moffatt-david-haye-had-no-ill-intent-amid-i-m-a-celeb-controversy.jpg\" alt=\"I\u2019m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! \u2013 South Africa\" data-title=\"I\u2019m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! \u2013 South Africa\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Ian West\" data-usage-terms=\"\"\/>Moffatt said she \u2018got on with everyone\u2019 on the show (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>When asked by presenter Kate Garraway about her reactions to Haye, the TV personality said: \u201cIt was like a nervous laugh, like \u2018I can\u2019t believe this is really happening and he\u2019s not stopping\u2019. I was just like, what is happening?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the tense confrontation between Thomas and Haye, which left viewers outraged, she said: \u201cI know since that they\u2019ve spoken; I know that everything\u2019s all well there, actually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean I\u2019ve grown a child since it\u2019s happened, it was so long ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moffatt, who was evicted from the all-star show last night, has openly discussed her struggles to conceive, but recently announced she is expecting her second child with her partner Scott Dobinson.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cWe genuinely never thought it would happen to us again. We\u2019re just like, honestly, eternally grateful. I think it still doesn\u2019t feel real yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Viewers saw the TV personality open up about her fertility struggles and having a miscarriage while on I\u2019m A Celebrity\u2026 South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>On this, Moffatt said: \u201cI think for me it was important to talk about. In there, you forget the cameras are there. You haven\u2019t got a phone or TV or anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou talk such deep chats in there and form close bonds that I think you do open up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, I felt so lonely during that time. I think if one person watched that and doesn\u2019t feel as lonely, I\u2019m really pleased that I sort of made myself a bit vulnerable and opened up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scarlett Moffatt has said she believes David Haye had no \u201cill intent\u201d and does not think he meant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-415672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}