{"id":518194,"date":"2026-04-07T19:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518194\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:54:10","slug":"two-im-a-celeb-all-stars-threatened-to-quit-show-after-campmates-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518194\/","title":{"rendered":"Two I&#8217;m A Celeb All Stars &#8216;threatened to quit show&#8217; after campmate&#8217;s prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">ITV1&#8217;s returning programme I&#8217;m A Celebrity&#8230; South Africa was very nearly derailed by the most unlikely prankster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Now airing on weeknights, the All Stars spin-off of the long-running reality <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ladbible.com\/tv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TV<\/a> favourite hosted by Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly brought back the likes of <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ladbible.com\/entertainment\/tv\/im-a-celeb-feud-all-stars-scarlett-moffatt-279356-20260406\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Roberts, Seann Walsh, Craig Charles, Jimmy Bullard, Adam Thomas, Beverley Callard, Mo Farah, Scarlett Moffatt, David Haye, and 2018 champion Harry Redknapp<\/a> to the format this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">However, the retired Tottenham Hotspur and Portsmouth <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ladbible.com\/football\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">football<\/a> manager allegedly went too far when some of his fellow campmates were at breaking point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">This insight was recollected during a press roundtable, <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/pa.media\/blogs\/pa-uplifting\/harry-redknapp-prank-nearly-caused-sinitta-and-gemma-collins-to-quit-im-a-celeb\/\">via<\/a> PA Media.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Harry Redknapp is back on the I'm A Celebrity train (ITV)\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"article-image_image__XvzgU\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0Y2Q3NGFjYzFkMGE5OWYzYS9ibHQ1NzVlZDlh.webp\"\/>Harry Redknapp is back on the I&#8217;m A Celebrity train (ITV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8216;So Macho&#8217; <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ladbible.com\/music\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">singer<\/a> Sinitta shared of Redknapp&#8217;s ill-judged banter: &#8220;I think we&#8217;d done really hard trials all day, or some sort of game, so we were physically exhausted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;We got back and we&#8217;re all relieved [that] nothing else can happen now, because they&#8217;ve exhausted us. It&#8217;s getting dark now, it&#8217;s getting late, so that must be it, we can relax. And Harry comes in and says, &#8216;Guys, you&#8217;re not going to believe this&#8230;&#8217; and he&#8217;s got the board, and he starts reading this awful trial. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s called something like the House of Hell, Prison of Hell, or something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The 79-year-old proceeded to convince everyone within earshot that they&#8217;d potentially be contending with rats during the challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;We&#8217;re already broken and literally before he could finish reading it out, Gemma [Collins] was like, &#8216;I&#8217;m a celebrity get me out of here!'&#8221; continued Sinitta, referring to the declaration that immediately releases contestants from the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;I have to admit, my hand went up and I was like, &#8216;You know what? Me too, I&#8217;m too exhausted, gotta go&#8217; \u2013 and he was pranking us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Gemma Collins was close to quitting South Africa following the footy legend's prank (ITV)\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"article-image_image__XvzgU\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0Y2Q3NGFjYzFkMGE5OWYzYS9ibHRiMDRhZjkx.webp\"\/>Gemma Collins was close to quitting South Africa following the footy legend&#8217;s prank (ITV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">At the same presser, ex-boxer Haye showered Collins in praise after initially doubting her commitment to the camp&#8217;s cause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The cruiserweight-turned-heavyweight star explained that ahead of his travels to South Africa, he was warned about Collins&#8217; history with I&#8217;m A Celeb, which ended with her quitting the Australian jungle just 3 days into the series back in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t have high hopes,&#8221; he admitted. &#8220;But of all the people watching her go through what she went through, she doesn&#8217;t have an ounce of quit in her at all. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;Whatever she did the first time round, she obviously looked back, a few years have gone by, and she&#8217;s like, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to give it everything.&#8217; Fortunately for the show, she did, because she was part of some real heavy challenges that she should be proud of herself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ITV1&#8217;s returning programme I&#8217;m A Celebrity&#8230; South Africa was very nearly derailed by the most unlikely prankster. 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