I’m A Celebrity contestant Nella Rose is considering quitting the jungle following her furious argument with Fred Siriex.
Nella, a YouTuber, told the Bush Telegraph that when she feels ‘uncomfortable,’ she tends to leave the environment.
Her admission comes after the social media star was offended because Fred from First Dates said that he may be her father owing to their ages (she is 51 and she is 26).
Nella was outraged since she had lost both her mother and father at a young age, and she labelled Fred’s comments ‘disrespectful.’
On Wednesday’s episode of the ITV show, she explained: ‘Whenever I feel uncomfortable, whenever I feel sad I do tend to leave. I do tend to not carry things through if I feel uncomfortable. So the fact I’ve lasted in the jungle for this long is astonishing.’
Nella also told another campmate Grace Dent, 50, that if Jamie Lynn Spears had resigned after having a tantrum over a little task, she would have followed in her footsteps.
‘If Jamie left yesterday I would have been right behind her… I’m leaving. I just don’t want to be the first,’ she admitted.
During the conversation with the journalist, Nella revealed that she had never followed through on anything in her life.
She continued: ‘I’ve never, ever in my life started something and finished it. Ever. I always quit, or I always sign on short term or if I don’t like it I can leave… this is the one thing I said I’m going to try and stick it through but I can already see myself… if I get in my head too much…’
‘Do you flee and run the minute things start to pick up?’ Grace inquired.
Nella said: ‘When I was younger I was put in a lot of situations that I had no control over. I was sad and miserable.
‘So now that I have the control over my happiness and the things I want to do I think I’m kind of, I’ve become obsessed with it: “Oh, you don’t have to do this if you don’t want to”.’
She added: ‘I used to have so much discipline but that was when I was in a bad space. Lack of self discipline got me from a size 12 to a size 20.
‘Literally my dad passed, I locked myself in the house for two months, I drank every single day and ate every single day and I gained it all and it was pandemic.’
After her upset with Fred, Nella explained in the Bush Telegraph that he had made the joke after she had opened up to him ‘about the fact my dad’s passed away’.
‘I didn’t say anything about it last night because I was kind of just annoyed about it. So I slept on it… and I was just like, this is not the kind of person I want to be around,’ she said.
Fred didn’t notice the gaffe until the next morning, when he continued calling to her and asking if she needed breakfast, and she continuously ignored him until she begged him to ‘leave me alone.’
Bewildered, the TV star asked what he’d done wrong, with Nella hitting out: ‘You know that my mum’s dead, and you know that my dad’s dead. You know that, right? I’ve come to find out that every time I wanna get creative around the fire, or I want to have something my way, my own food that I am entitled to, my way, you tend to get an attitude, right?’
She said he had an ‘attitude’ about the fact he told her, ‘You know I could be your dad, right?’
‘I don’t care how you said it to me, it’s disrespectful and I don’t want to talk to you. I don’t want to be around you,’ Nella said. ‘I only allow people to disrespect me once. You hurt my feelings. I was very upset… you keep trying to speak to me when I don’t want to speak to you.
‘I would rather stay away from you, I don’t want to eat your food, I don’t want to talk to you. We can just live, you live on that side, I live on this side.’
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Fred apologised profusely, insisting he didn’t know he offended her with the comment and ‘only said that because I am older than you, I am 51 and you’re 26.’
He added: ‘I made a mistake and I said something and I offended you, I’m really sorry. I’m really sorry you feel like this.’
Nella was having none of it, saying ‘you’re not going to little girl me.’
She said she would accept his apology but ‘I don’t want to eat no food that you’re cooking, don’t talk to me, you stay over there, I stay over here and we can live.’
Following the row, a post was shared on Fred’s Instagram Story, which was reshared by his partner on her own.
The caption reshared by his partner, who goes by the handle ‘@fruitcake_fundamentals’ on the social media platform, read: ‘Tough watch for some of the show tonight but Fred did us so proud – we know his intention would never be to upset anyone. Keep your head up Fred – we love you.’
Nella’s father died in 2020, with the YouTuber sharing a photograph of them together to announce the news, writing: ‘Watching you suffer for the past month has been the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life but at least you’re not in pain anymore 🕊 💛.
‘Gonna make you the proudest dad ever in the years to come because I know you’re still by [my] side every step of the way.’
Nella has been through a lot in her life, including being homeless six years ago when her mother died abruptly in 2017.
‘She died in my arms,’ the celebrity claimed in a YouTube video about her history. It is the most terrible thing that has ever occurred to me.
‘I was planning on using my student loan and my little YouTube money to pay the rent and bills. But then my brother and I got a letter telling us we had 30 days to move out. So I’m in my second year of uni, I’m dealing with my mum’s death and now we’re homeless.’
She moved to the UK with her mother and brother when she was seven years old from Belgium.
I’m A Celebrity continues on ITV and ITVX tomorrow at 9pm.
