The Chase’s Jenny Ryan has claimed Joey Essex is ‘not a very nice person’ after they appeared on Celebrity MasterChef together. Jenny, 38, spilled the beans about the former TOWIE star whilst appearing on ‘Dan the Man’s Desert Island D****’ podcast. Jenny – who is known as The Vixen on The Chase – joined Joey, […]
The Chase’s Jenny Ryan has claimed Joey Essex is ‘not a very nice person’ after they appeared on Celebrity MasterChef together.
Jenny, 38, spilled the beans about the former TOWIE star whilst appearing on ‘Dan the Man’s Desert Island D****’ podcast.
Jenny – who is known as The Vixen on The Chase – joined Joey, 30, on the cooking show last year but was not impressed.
“I thought, I’ll take people as I find them and I want to give him a chance,” she explained.
“The fact that he put this additional workload onto everybody else showed that he just doesn’t seem to be a very nice person.
“I assumed it was a bit of a persona and when you get into that situation the nice, co-operative side of you tends to come out.”
Recalling a particular MasterChef challenge where they had to cook up a feast for 60 people out on the white cliffs of Dover, Jenny revealed she became particularly frustrated with Joey.
“I spent much of the time allocated to us to cook the 60 portions cajoling, bossing Joey about, trying to find things for him to do, then trying to explain to him how to do them, then watching him make a halfhearted attempt to do them before making an excuse as to why he couldn’t do that task – and then having to find another task…” she said.
“He took up half of my time. It was so exasperating, it was excuse after excuse after excuse. I just thought, ‘It’s not a put-on, this – he’s just lazy’.”
Jenny’s comments come after she previously hinted that she may have joined the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! line up.
After ITV confirmed that the 2020 series would be taking place in the UK and not Australia, Jenny tweeted about the possibility.
She wrote: “My main reservations about doing I’m A Celeb have always been 1. The Spiders 2. The Snakes 3. The Heat. This could be a big opportunity for ol’ Jenny.”
It wouldn’t be the first time Jenny has branched out from her Chaser role, having competed on Celebrity X Factor last year.
She would also be following in the footsteps of fellow Chaser Anne Hegerty, who took part in the 2018 series Down Under.
She replied to Jenny’s tweet: “Outside of trials, 1. Spiders – only one big gravid one in overhang of pool, which no one used but me, 2. Snakes – nope, they patrol the camp perimeter very carefully, 3. Heat – less than you’d think, you’re sleeping outside.”
