I’m A Celebrity fans have been shocked by Nigel Farage grabbing the face of a campmate (Picture: ITV/ Shutterstock)
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! viewers have been left shocked after Nigel Farage grabbed Josie Gibson by the face during a disagreement.
On the latest episode of the reality series, the remaining six campmates were tasked with choosing two people to sent to a Christmas-themed trial.
Immediately putting her hand up, the This Morning star declared: ‘I’m going to do it. If you want me to do it, I’ll do it.’
But jumping in, Tony Bellew questioned whether she was the best option.
‘Are you going to be scared of anything that’s landed on you? Because right now we need stars?’
She responded: ‘I’m scared of all of it… but you feel like you need to win stars and maybe I’ve not got the minerals.’
He put his hands on Josie Gibson’s face during a disagreement (Picture: ITV)
However, Nigel then said he was keen to participate in another trial saying it was ‘as simple as that’.
Not willing to let the boys take over though Josie again said she felt like she wanted to prove herself, but the former politician did his best to dissuade her.
‘Josie, you don’t need to. You’ve got to go into this saying I’m not frightened of whatever they’re going to throw at me. If you can’t say… then you shouldn’t do it, is my view.’
He was insisting she not take part in a trial despite her putting her hand up (Picture: ITV)
She replied: ‘I was saying I want to prove myself and you were going, “You shouldn’t do it, you shouldn’t do it”.’
He told her she was proving herself by ‘being here’ and while she got some encouragement from Sam Thompson to be one of the two players, she conceded and said to let Nigel do it because he ‘wants the airtime’.
When they were chatting he grabbed her by the face before their conversation wrapped up.
Josie made sure to stand up for herself (Picture: ITV)
Clearly unimpressed by the exchange, many viewers shared their annoyance at what went down on social media.
‘The way he spoke to Josie then was uncomfortable to watch. And then the hands on her face!! But Josie saw right through him. He just wants the airtime,’ Elliot Gonzalez posted on X, formerly Twitter.
She eventually decided to let him do the trial, but declared it was to give him the ‘air time’ he clearly wanted (Picture: ITV)
‘If he put his hands on my face like that and was that patronising to me, I would have floored him. How Josie kept her cool then is beyond me,’ Dani Harris shared.
Ryan Glendenning wrote: ‘The way Nigel was touching Josie. He really is so patronising.’
In the Bush Telegraph Josie said: ‘I should have fought my corner a bit more, but he wants the airtime because he wants to prove himself to the nation.’
Nigel was pretty happy with the fact he could do yet another trial (Picture: ITV/Shutterstock)
The tense disagreement between the two came after Josie previously clashed with now-eliminated campmate Fred Sirieix when he took aim at her cooking.
After she was given the responsibility of being camp chef, Fred wasn’t too impressed with Josie’s efforts and made it known as he watched over her.
While it was appreciated at first, she went on to note that he was getting on her nerves.
Meanwhile he declared in the Bush Telegraph what she was putting together ‘wasn’t cooking’ and was a ‘disaster’.
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! continues Sunday at 9pm on ITV1.
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‘That was uncomfortable to watch.’