{"id":442635,"date":"2023-11-15T03:07:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T03:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totalcelnews.com\/?p=442635"},"modified":"2023-11-15T03:07:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T03:07:33","slug":"grace-dents-scathing-criticism-of-cruel-im-a-celeb-before-signing-up-herself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totalcelnews.com\/celebrities\/grace-dents-scathing-criticism-of-cruel-im-a-celeb-before-signing-up-herself\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Dents scathing criticism of cruel Im A Celeb before signing up herself"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Masterchef: The Professionals star Grace Dent made no secret of her contempt for I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! back in 2012, when she accused the “puerile” show of animal cruelty.<\/p>\n

However, she has now dismissed her comments as “jokes”, as she prepares to launch into life in the jungle herself.<\/p>\n

The 50-year-old, who will join everyone from former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage to Europe-loving Frenchman and First Dates star Fred Sirieix, had previously spoken of the show in very scathing terms.<\/p>\n

In an opinion piece for The Independent, she’d exclaimed: “Let’s be frank, I’m a Celeb, love or hate it, is far from a deluxe viewing experience.<\/p>\n

“It is a puerile venture into starvation, televised constipation and animal cruelty, abbreviated by ads for Iceland \u00a31 curries.”<\/p>\n

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The acid-tongued food critic continued: “I snap my blinds firmly shut before settling down to watch I’m a Celeb, in fear that the theme tune alone devalues my property.”<\/p>\n

However, she admitted that she “invariably does watch”, joking that she needed a dose of “dumb fun” like other viewers around the nation.<\/p>\n

“The buzz about contestants such as the [former] Tory MP Nadine Dorries becomes so heady that it’s quite impossible not to take a peek, to see if she has been locked in a coffin and gnawed by rats,” she confessed.<\/p>\n

However, today, Grace has backtracked on her scathing comments, shrugging them off with the retort: “I’ve made jokes about everything because that’s what I do.<\/p>\n

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