I’m A Celebrity’s Adele Roberts could have ruined Roman Kemp’s career with ‘prejudice’ jibe blasts Vicky Pattison
I’M A Celeb’s Adele Roberts risked ruining Roman Kemp’s career by accusing him of prejudice, ex-champ Vicky Pattison claims.
DJ Adele, 40, lashed out after Roman questioned why her luxury item was a snap of Loose Women’s Jane McDonald.
She blasted: “That’s prejudice, I’m allowed to like what I want.”
Vicky, 32, who won in 2015, told The Sun: “Words like ‘prejudice’ shouldn’t be thrown around recklessly in any environment — certainly not the jungle where there are around 10million people hanging on your every word.
“A harmless joke could have been blown all out of proportion and had a very detrimental effect on Roman’s career.”
Adele lashed out after Roman questioned why her luxury item was a snap of Loose Women’s Jane McDonald.
The Radio 1 DJ, 40, left her campmates and viewers baffled when she picked the picture as her luxury item for the jungle – and Roman, 26, couldn’t resist teasing her about her “random” choice.
Singer Jane McDonald, 56, shot to fame on fly-on-the-wall TV series The Cruise and Adele is apparently a huge fan of hers – but couldn’t name one of her songs when asked.
Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway also challenged the camp to name one of the singer’s tracks, adding: “Jane McDonald is looking over us. Can you think of a song of hers?”
I’m A Celebrity favourite Adele said: “I know her off Loose Women. I don’t know her actual songs but I know her from the cruising show when she does covers.”
Roman and Rak-Su member Myles Stephenson laughed and both said: “No one knows what she does,” before Kate replied: “She’s a legend.”
John Barrowman, 52, who took part last year, said Adele may have been using Jane’s popularity to land votes — even though she admitted knowing none of her songs.
He added: “If you bring a picture of Jane McDonald on, you should probably know the songs that she sang.”
After a tense back-and-forth, Roman said: “It’s just random, mate.”
An irritated Adele finally told him: “That’s prejudice! I’m allowed to like what I want.”
Realising he had made her angry, Roman apologised, saying: “I wasn’t saying that at all. I’m sorry – I didn’t mean to.”
Adele then said: “It’s like you’re saying, ‘Why would I like Jane McDonald?’
“I’m not allowed to like what I want?”
Roman managed to defuse the situation saying: “I like the picture being there,” before giving Adele a hug.
Yesterday it was revealed Adele is so obsessed with crooner Jane McDonald that she had also brought her book into the jungle.
On her Radio 1 show, Adele includes a regular feature in tribute to Jane, 56.
Adele’s girlfriend Kate Holderness said of the pic: “She chose something that never fails to cheer her up.”
Kate took to Twitter to clear up the confusion over the framed picture saying she only chose it because all the other luxury items had been taken.
The campmates are not allowed to double up on anything, so she just decided to bring something that would make her smile.
Adele and Roman were later chosen by the public to take part in the first eating trial.
Roman’s dad tweeted: “Just voted for my boy to eat kangaroo b*****ks. That’ll show him!”
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