An alleged I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! ‘feud’ has been revealed as Sam Thompson and Nick Pickard have snubbed one of the stars of the show.
It has emerged that the pair have failed to follow third place runner-up Nigel Farage on social media, joining Sam’s girlfriend Zara McDermott in failing to do the same.
However it appears there is no love lost as the former UKIP leader has not followed any of them either.
So far, the GB News presenter has only followed EastEnders star Danielle Harold on Instagram, and she has returned the favour.
Other campmates and their loved ones appear to have also snubbed Nigel as Marvin Humes, his wife Rochelle and Nella Rose also don’t follow him.
An I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! feud has been revealed as Sam Thompson, (centre) Nick Pickard, (right) and Zara McDermott have snubbed one of the stars of the show
While Sam and Nick both took part in the show with Nigel, Sam’s girlfriend Zara has also snubbed him.
Nigel was met on the iconic I’m A Celebrity bridge by his French girlfriend Laure, and the pair jetted home together.
Sam won the 2023 King of the Jungle title on Sunday by a landslide, voting figures revealed.
He came out on top with over 50 per cent of the votes, beating boxer Tony Bellew, 41, who finished in second place and Nigel, who came in third.
ITV released two sets of figures which showed the percentages for the top three before voting was frozen and later re-opened for the final two.
In the first round Sam raked in 43.35 per cent which was miles out in front of Tony who got 30.87 per cent and Nigel with 25.78 per cent.
Then in the final vote Sam’s lead only increased as he bagged 56.64 per cent of viewers votes beating Tony’s 43.36 per cent by a whopping 13 per cent.
Sam had been the bookies favourite to win for the past couple of weeks after proving popular with ITV viewers.
While Sam and Nick both took part in the show with Nigel, Sam’s girlfriend Zara has also snubbed him
Nigel was met on the iconic I’m A Celebrity bridge by his French girlfriend Laure, and the pair jetted home together
Sam was crowned King of the Jungle with Tony Bellew (left) coming in second and Nigel (right) finishing in third
Sam jumped into the arms of runner-up Tony when hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly announced the results, before admitting he was ‘overwhelmed’.
He said: ‘I’m really overwhelmed, I didn’t think I’d even be invited on the show. I don’t know what to say.’
Asked what he had to say to those who had voted for him, he tearfully said: ‘I’m so grateful, thank you so much.
‘I’ve dreamed of doing this show for years and years and you’ve made a boy’s dream come true.’
Elsewhere, following his jungle exit, Nigel has slammed ITV boss Kevin Lygo and warned him not to ‘go to war’ with him, claiming he now knows there was a conspiracy at the top of the broadcaster to ‘stitch me up’ on I’m a Celebrity.
The politician left the jungle after reaching Sunday’s final but claims he has now learned ‘people up at the top of ITV were doing their best to make life quite unpleasant for me’.
Nigel came third in the reality show – defying critics and left-wingers who vowed to boycott the programme.
As he returns to Britain he said he is fuming about a ‘stitch-up’ at ITV, including claims they deliberately censored him, reduced his air time as well as showing him naked multiple times. He also learned that Kevin Lygo allegedly made an obscene joke about him on stage while he was in the jungle.
The former UKIP leader has said that Director of Television Mr Lygo should ‘look what happened’ to Dame Alison Rose at NatWest – who was forced to quit after the Brexiteer was debanked because of his politics.
Speaking to GB News as he left Australia he said: ‘It seems whilst I was in the Jungle, one or two people at the top of ITV were doing their best to make things unpleasant for me. What I will say to Kevin Lygo, the boss of ITV, it’s up to you mate. If you want to go to war with me, you really can. The last person to do that was Dame Alison Rose, from NatWest bank, and look what happened to her’.
Mr Farage also learned of claims that Mr Lygo allegedly joked aimed an offensive one- handed gesture at him at an event attended by stars Susanna Reid, Davina McCall and Lorraine Kelly in late November.
Joking about the sign language interpreter on stage next to him, Mr Lygo apparently said: ‘I don’t know any sign language, I just know the sign for Nigel Farage.’ He later said of the Brexiteer: ‘Don’t worry, he knows he has to come home from Australia in a dinghy.’
Elsewhere Nigel has slammed ITV boss Kevin Lygo and warned him not to ‘go to war’ with him, claiming he now knows there was a conspiracy at the top of the broadcaster to ‘stitch him up’
Hitting back, Mr Farage said last night: ‘I would suggest, Mr Lygo, that I am prepared to ignore your rude, one-handed gestures, the rude pathetic attempts from your staff to stitch me up.
‘I’m prepared to forget all of it if we can call a truce. But if you really, really want to go to war with me, I don’t think it will do ITV’s share price an awful lot of good’.
Around £840million was wiped off NatWest’s share value after Dame Alison admitted sharing information about Mr Farage to the BBC.
The former chief executive of Natwest Dame Alison Rose was forced to quit her role amid the fallout over the de-banking row with Mr Farage.
Mr Farage is not the first controversial politician to enter into the Australian jungle, following Matt Hancock’s appearance last year.
They experienced almost the same trajectory in the programme, with the former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care also claiming third place.