I’M A Celebrity has come under fire by fuming fans who raged the show was ‘fixed’ for one contestant to win.
On tonight’s finale, Reverend Richard Coles, Danny Jones and Coleen Rooney had a nail-biting final day before Danny was confirmed as the winner.
Reverend Richard Coles, the former Communards singer-turned-vicar, came in third place, and Coleen came second.
Viewers were fuming at the announcement, taking to X to say the other two stars were “robbed” of the win.
“Richard was robbed. The true King Of The Jungle!” declared one fan.
Another said: “someone call the police reverend richard was just ROBBED and should be king”
“Rev Richard out over Colleen??? This is a joke. The british public had ONE job,” bemoaned another.
Another claim the show was fixed in another campmate’s favour, saying: “I really want Danny to win this but I bet Colleen will, it seems like @ITV have fixed this for her to win, plugging her show, the constant screen time, it just seems off to me.”
This only got worse when Danny was declared the winner.
“How has Coleen not won? Danny is so “me me me me”. Fix,” wrote one.
“Danny winning in a celeb.. definitely a fix! Richard will always be my winner,” said a second.
However, other fans quickly stepped in to defend the series.
“Maybe, a person you don’t want to win could win because others voted,” commented one.
“How does every British reality TV show turn into a fix when someone’s favourite person doesn’t win,” laughed another.
On the final day, Reverend Coles admitted that he didn’t expect to win the show, admitting his shock at making the final three after Oti Mabuse’s elimination.
But they didn’t have too much time to dwell as Richard, Coleen and Danny headed down to the trial area for the show’s first joint finale Bushtucker Trial.
In order to win luxury meals, all three took on the Towers of Terror, where they laid on their backs in stacked boxes.
Coleen took the top, Danny was in the middle and Richard was placed in the bottom, and they had to work together to guide stars through each section and into the ‘win’ zone – all while dealing with snakes.
After that, they were placed into a second tower with more grisly additions in order to complete the final task.
With all of them succeeding, they were able to get their dream meals – with Richard enjoying a prawn cocktail with a salad, cottage pie with peas, carrots and gravy, fruit cake for main course and a Chablis Grand Cru for his drink.
Speaking on his time on the show, Reverend Richard said: “I thought there’d be like, luxury spas, just off camera, beautifully pampered and looked after. Not the case.
“It was much harder than I thought it would be, but that was great. The lows were much lower, the highs were much higher, but it was the lows that made the highs, if you see what I mean.”
“I will look back on my time in the jungle with gratitude, actually,” he said of his time on the show. “I’ll remember every part of it.”
I’m A Celebrity is available in full now on ITVX.
