{"id":288618,"date":"2025-11-28T22:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288618\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T22:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:07:17","slug":"im-a-celebrity-angry-ginges-mate-admits-knock-back-as-he-shows-side-theyve-never-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288618\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m A Celebrity Angry Ginge’s mate admits ‘knock back’ as he shows side they’ve ‘never seen’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The online star, who boasts millions of followers, is favourite to win the ITV reality show this year\"AngrygingeAngryginge in the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here jungle(Image: ITV\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

A friend of Angry Ginge has they have ‘never seen’ some of the sides he is showing while taking part in I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here<\/a> – which he is favourite to win this year.<\/p>\n

The online star, whose real name is Morgan Burtwhistle, was brought up by his single mum, Michelle, alongside his sister on a council estate in Salford. It was in his bedroom that he first started live-streaming himself playing football video games under the username Angryginge13.<\/p>\n

He has now amassed more than five million followers across his accounts – and is the bookies\u2019 favourite to claim the Jungle crown this year, as the ITV<\/a> reality show’s eliminations begin on Friday night (November 28).<\/p>\n

And Angry Ginge wants to win the Jungle for his mum after she raised him by working three jobs. Pal Jakey Davies, who is a member of The Bov Boys with the I\u2019m a Celeb star, said that Ginge\u2019s story from council house to potential glory was “inspirational”.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Mirror, he said: “He said he wants to do it for her and make her proud – he values his family so highly. He is that inspiration for people from a working class background.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this week Ginge was seen in tears as he missed his mum in camp. Jakey said: “I’ve not seen that emotional side to him\u2026but you have to remember that Ginge hasn\u2019t been on holiday since 2017, never mind going to a different country and having zero contact to home.<\/p>\n

“So it’s just a build up of emotions. I think he had a bit of a knock back that day as well by some of his camp mates which made him feel a little bit alienated.I think it is nice for people to understand he is just human.”<\/p>\n

Ginge has been seen getting emotional in the jungle(Image: ITV\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

Jakey was referring to the only real flash point which saw Jack Osbourne and Ruby Wax appear uneasy about Ginge and Aitch becoming camp leaders. But Jakey said that this was probably down to the fact that they might not have understood his sense of humour<\/p>\n

\u201cHim and Aitch meant no harm\u2026 there are some people in there who aren’t necessarily from the UK, and they might not understand certain sarcastic traits,” he said.<\/p>\n

Jakey was also left shocked when Ginge claimed he was a romantic on the show and once sprinkled rose petals to woo a girlfriend. “I\u2019ve never seen that side of him\u2026we are all going to wind him up when he leaves the jungle,” Jakey laughed. “He does ok with women but I think Ruby is his ideal woman now.”<\/p>\n

But Jakey said he wasn\u2019t worried about his mate while he’s in the jungle – because what you see is what you get. He commented: “He’s genuinely exactly the same as he’s on camera, and he’s just a nice person. So I wasn\u2019t worried about the public opinion, because he’s not controversial. He’s literally just a sound bloke.”<\/p>\n

And he said that Ginge\u2019s success was extra special as he is just a hard-working kid from Manchester. “I feel like every time someone becomes a bit successful, it’s typically from London,\u201d he says. \u201cHe means a lot to people in Manchester,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The online star, who boasts millions of followers, is favourite to win the ITV reality show this yearAngryginge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,6463,347,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-288618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-im-a-celebrity-get-me-out-of-here","tag-itv","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}