I am A Superstar…Get Me Out Of Right here! alum Amir Khan says co-star Iain Lee left their campmates’ WhatsApp group after the present ended.
The previous skilled boxer additionally stated he had problem getting on with the “sly” 52-year-old comic – who made it to the programme’s remaining – after they did the ITV Australia-based jungle survival present in 2017.
Chatting with Betway, Amir, 38, admitted: “The man I struggled with was Iain Lee.
“I am not going to lie. He performed a little bit of a trick, wanting again. He actually performed the sport.
“The humorous factor is, we’ve nonetheless acquired a WhatsApp group with all of us from the present on it. As quickly as he left the jungle, he exited the group.
“He tried to play harmless and make himself seem like somebody folks ought to really feel sorry for. I didn’t like that.
“Truthfully, I’m an actual particular person. If I do one thing incorrect, I put my hand up and apologise.
“However him – he struggled with me. He wished to be seen in a sure method, like, “Oh, I tousled, however really feel sorry for me.”
“He was sly.”
Amir – who completed in fifth place on I am A Superstar…Get Me Out Of Right here! – insists he had no recreation plan to be topped the winner, which 30-year-old actuality TV star Georgia “Toff” Toffolo went on to turn out to be.
The previous sportsman defined: “Some folks on that present got here in with a recreation plan. I didn’t. I didn’t know what to anticipate.
“So, once I ate the strawberries, I didn’t assume twice. Even when Iain didn’t return and inform them, nobody would’ve recognized – besides the folks at dwelling.
“It was a sly transfer from Iain, which made the viewers assume I used to be the dangerous man. However I didn’t must come clean with it – nobody in camp knew.
“Think about how humorous it might’ve been once we all left and had been like, ‘Wait, you ate the strawberries?!’ That will’ve been hilarious.”
Amir is referring to the notorious strawberry gate, attributable to him and Iain.
The duo received the fruit and a few cream after finishing a Dingo Greenback Problem, they usually determined to scoff all of it with out telling their fellow campmates.
Amir and Iain initially advised their co-stars they failed the Dingo Greenback Problem, nevertheless, Iain couldn’t maintain the key and later confessed to their campmates that they received the deal with, and he thought it might be “actually humorous to eat all of them by myself”.
To make issues worse, Amir then let Hollyoaks actor Jamie Lomas, 50, assume the entire thing was Iain’s thought.
And Amir would do the stunt once more.
He stated: “On the time, once I ate them, I believed, ‘Yeah, I’m having them.’ I didn’t know the cameras had been rolling, and that folks again dwelling had been going to be watching.
“See, that is the factor – I didn’t realise how massive of a present I’m A Superstar was. I’d by no means watched it earlier than. I didn’t know the way the system labored.
“However once I rewatched what I did, the best way it was edited made me seem like such a foul particular person – like I used to be doing it on function to upset everybody in camp.
“However truthfully, I used to be simply fooling around – a bit boisterous. That’s simply who I’m.
“Trying again, it made me look dangerous. However would I do it once more? I in all probability would – yeah, why not?
“However this time, I’d inform them straight, ‘Yeah, I ate them – what are you going to do about it?’
“I keep in mind there was Jamie Lomas, Georgia Toffolo, and even Stanley Johnson, Boris Johnson’s dad.
“Even when I did say I ate them, I don’t assume they might’ve achieved something anyway.”