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I’m A Celeb race row explodes as Babatunde Aleshe is voted out before ‘show villains’ and fans threaten to ‘switch off
AN I’m A Celeb race row has exploded after Babatunde Aleshe was voted out before the ‘show villains.’
Fans have threatened to switch off as the comedian, 34, was booted off last night while other contestants stayed in the camp.
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The comedian received the fewest public votes after ending up in the bottom two alongside fellow funny man Seann Walsh.
Fans have dubbed MP Matt Hancock and radio DJ Chris Moyles the "show villains" - and they remain in the camp.
Baba's exit comes after Boy George, Sue Cleaver, Scarlette Douglas and Charlene White all left the jungle.
After Babatunde’s recent vote off, one viewer took to Twitter to write: “Lmaoo no way have all the blacks been eliminated from I’m A Celeb and Matt Hancock is still in. Brits racism issue trumps everything else trust me!”
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Another said: “Nah I’m done. This is actual racism now. No other explanation.”
And a third person penned: “Wow. How much obvious racism. Come on public, do better.”
This year’s show was already embroiled in a “race row” after A Place In The Sun presenter Scarlette Douglas, 35, became the second campmate to leave the jungle - hours after Loose Women anchor Charlene White, 42, was the first celebrity to be evicted from the show.
But speaking for the first time since leaving the jungle, Scarlette, who presents Channel 4's Worst House on the Street alongside her brother Stuart Douglas, described how she knew she was the “underdog” in the series while starring alongside big names such as Boy George.
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Speaking to The Sun, she said: “I've always come in here as an underdog. I've got the least profile of anybody else, you know, not everybody knows who I am. Hopefully they do now!"
She added: "So I was never going to get the most votes. You know, even if you're just looking at something like Instagram, I always have the least amount of followers.
"If I go by something like that. I'm not going to get all the votes.
"So for me, all I could have done in the jungle was do my best and hope that people liked me and hoped that people voted for me.
“But people aren't voting for me to leave. They're voting for who their favourites are and if I'm not their favourite there's nothing I can do about that. I just have to be true to me.
“Be authentic and just enjoy the experience and when my time comes, my time comes wherever it is.
“I'm the second out and it would have been great to get a lot further but that didn't happen.
“I can't take it in a negative way, I have to take it positively because I've had an amazing experience, I've met some incredible people and take from that what you will.”
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