{"id":540789,"date":"2026-04-20T09:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540789\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:27:19","slug":"ant-and-dec-slam-im-a-celebs-david-haye-in-rare-contestant-criticism-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540789\/","title":{"rendered":"Ant and Dec slam I\u2019m A Celeb\u2019s David Haye in rare contestant criticism | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ant-and-dec\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ant and Dec<\/a> have criticised I\u2019m A Celebrity campmate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/david-haye\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Haye<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/david-haye-im-a-celebrity-ugly-birds-b2957155.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his interactions<\/a> with Adam Thomas in the jungle.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers were unhappy after the boxer, 45, called the actor, 37, \u201cuseless\u201d after Thomas, who has the autoimmune condition psoriatic arthritis, asked to skip a Bushtucker Trial due to feeling unwell.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas said Haye \u201cbroke\u201d him and pushed him to his limits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/im-a-celebrity-south-africa-beverley-callard-how-old-b2952771.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the jungle, <\/a>and Haye has since apologised.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on ITV\u2019s I\u2019m A Celebrity\u2026 Unpacked podcast on Friday (17 April), Ant said: \u201cIt\u2019s not a nice watch. He just kind of picks and picks at them. Adam has had a bit of a tough time, and he\u2019s not coping well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dec added: \u201cIt\u2019s kind of crossed the line from banter. I don\u2019t find it comfortable to watch.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ant and Dec have criticised I\u2019m A Celebrity campmate David Haye for his interactions with Adam Thomas in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[186052,12332,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-540789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-aptopix-britain-soccer-premier-league","9":"tag-declan-rice","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540789","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=540789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}