Craig Charles shares what really happened in ‘traumatising’ Jimmy Bullard Adam Thomas bust up
I’m A Celebrity… South Africa star Craig Charles got visibly upset while discussing the Jimmy Bullard and Adam Thomas bust up.
The Coronation Street actor, 61, appeared on This Morning alongside fellow finalists Mo Farah and Harry Redknapp.
Earlier this week on the ITV show, Jimmy and Adam were involved in a heated clash following a paired Bushtucker Trial.
The Waterloo Road actor was left fuming with the former footballer when he refused to take part in the challenge and said the famous words: "I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here."
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It meant that Adam would have to leave the show with Jimmy.
"I am in there getting covered in f**king ants," he shouted at Jimmy, who asked him to calm down, calling his outburst 'pathetic'.
Adam - who ended up continuing on in the jungle after campmates voted for him to stay - went on: “What’s up with you bro? If you wanted to go, go. Don’t take me with you. Go home in camp, don’t do it on my f**king watch.”
“I choose when I come and when I go,” Jimmy said.
During Friday's This Morning, Charles told Dermot O’Leary that 'Adam was so wound up, so aggressive, like a coiled spring'.
“It looked like he was going to attack Jimmy, he was dropping f-bombs and c-bombs,” he said.
“If Alison said she didn’t want to do an interview and you reacted like that, you would be escorted off the premises, it really was traumatic.
“They couldn’t broadcast it, I get that, I’m not blaming ITV, they edited it out. So mine and Harry’s response to that was because of what we’d really seen.
“They had to water down what we’d really seen but they didn’t water down our responses.
“People are thinking, ‘oh it wasn’t that bad’, but we weren’t picking on Adam at all, it was just that what he did, and we saved him again.
“I thought Adam was my friend, so we saved him again.”
Appearing emotional, Charles said that it was a shame because 'we laughed so much in that jungle'.
Co-host Alison Hammond went and gave Charles a hug, who added: “It’s just that these guys have suffered, their reputations damaged.
“With this social media campaign, they’ve given this 80-year-old man dog abuse on social media.
“Just because he said, ‘I don’t like the way that Adam reacted’. We didn’t like the way Jimmy reacted, we didn’t like the way Adam reacted.”
On why Adam wasn't with them, Charles said it was because social media thought that 'Harry, Mo and I were not with or behind Adam or there for Adam while he was getting bullied' by David Haye.
Speaking on the At Home With The Thomas Bro’s podcast, Adam said he underwent therapy after the two-time world champion continued to tease him throughout the show.
"It's changed me and that's no over-exaggeration," he said. "Like it's changed me. Like I'm in therapy now, it's f**ked with me mentally because I just thought, 'how is this happening?'
"Like, I'm a 37-year-old man and I'm like, 'how am I letting some other person do this to me in here?'"
Adam says the former boxer apologised to him and 'explained why he is the way that he is and all this stuff'.
"He has deep down, man. I know, he gives off this bravado or whatnot, but deep down, I know he's a good guy," Adam said.
After leaving the camp on Monday, Haye said there was 'no bad blood from my side'.
The final of I’m A Celebrity… South Africa will air on ITV from 7.30pm this evening (24 April).
Some of the most memorable feuds of I'm a Celebrity
Janice Dickinson and Lynne Franks
Two very large personalities went head to head in 2007's I'm a Celeb with their constant arguing.
Writer Lynne eventually snapped at the former model, saying in tears: "You’re one of the most horrible people I’ve ever encountered."
And then, in the most Janice Dickinson-style ever, the America's Next Top Model judge called Lynne a 'witch' and threatened to fry up her ‘big old boobs’ and serve them to the campmates.
Kim Woodburn and Katie Price
The late Kim Woodburn was well known for her fiery personality, and in 2009 when she was on I'm a Celeb with glamour model Katie Price, this was very much showcased.
Kim was quick to show some honesty when Katie asked the camp what they thought of her, saying: "You live and die for publicity and you do it well. As Shakespeare once said, 'We fear you protesteth too much'.
"You know full well you’ve got 10 to 12 million people watching every night and you know, madam, you’ll be all over the papers every day. Now stop it. Stop your nonsense."
Kim also said 'for some reason' the British public 'love' Katie and if she had 'her looks, she'd do it'. And as in 'do it', she meant pose in a bikini for the papers.
Edwina Currie and Kendra Wilkinson
In the 2014 stint of the reality show, former politician Edwina Currie and TV personality Kendra Wilkinson butted heads several times.
While the pair didn't ever have a dramatic bust up, resentment clearly built up during their time in the Aussie jungle, with former Playboy bunny Kendra taking a swipe at her campmate upon her eviction.
"My God. I have no sympathy towards her," she said of Edwina.
Speaking further about comments made about her, Kendra said: "She’s a coward because she can’t say that to my face. She might want to grow a heart and learn how to learn about others. I don’t come from luxury like her.
"I mean she’s gross, she’s a gross person. To be honest with you I won’t even be able to look at Edwina again."
Edwina later went on to swipe back, saying that Kendra 'isn't even a proper celebrity'.
Lady Colin Campbell and Tony Hadley
I think we all remember where we were when this one kicked off in 2015.
It all started when Lady C, a socialite who's best known for being a Royal Family fanatic, threw a beetle the camp had found in the open fire - much to the dismay of Spandau Ballet singer Tony Hadley.
When he called out the TV personality for doing that to the 'beautiful beetle', she responded by saying: "I don’t need any input from you... You are a hypocritical pretentious arsehole. I’ve had enough of you. It’s none of your f**king business, a***hole."
She went on: "You’re a chippy oik with a mouth of diarrhoea. My opinion of you is that you are the lowest of the low, a bore. Let me tell you something, boy, you are of no significance to me. You’re so used to creeps and dollybirds, tarts.
"You don’t even have a good voice."
Andrew Maxwell and Ian Wright
When the 2019 camp erupted in a sexism row while preparing dinner, Irish comedian Andrew Maxwell accused footballer Ian Wright of 'singling him out'.
"You keep shouting at me Ian," he said, which prompted Ian to hit back: "Who is shouting, when did I shout? I wasn’t even talking to you, what did I say?"
After arguing, the pair eventually hugged it out - a rarity for these campside feuds - with Andrew saying: "I’m sorry, I’m really tired, I don’t know, I’m really tired… I’m not going to cry, I’m sorry."
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