Ant finally addresses ‘problem’ with Kelly Brook after feud rumours

I'm A Celeb presenter Ant McPartlin has addressed his 'problem' with campmate Kelly Brook.

Since confirmation that the actor and media personality was heading Down Under earlier this month, rumours about an alleged feud between Brook and the presenting duo have resurfaced online.

Claims of a feud between the pair date back to 2009, when Brook had a short stint as a judge on Britain's Got Talent, which is also hosted by Ant and Dec.

Brook had been hired as a judge alongside Piers Morgan, Amanda Holden and Simon Cowell, however this role was later changed to that of a guest judge, with the 46-year-old only appearing in a handful of episodes.

Brook later appeared to blame the pair for being axed from BGT, claiming Ant and Dec 'clearly... didn’t want me on the show' (via MailOnline).

The duo haven't been impressed by the campmates' cooking (ITV)

Given Brook's comments, the alleged feud resurfaced once again after she was confirmed as a campmate, leading Ant to seemingly address the rumours during a discussion on last night's (22 November) episode of I’m A Celebrity... Unpacked.

The topic came up when Ant was laying into the campmates' cooking skills, saying every dish the group had made looked 'rancid'.

"Every dinner they’ve made I’ve thought 'That looks rancid'," he told Dec as well as hosts Joel Dommett and Kemi Rodgers.

Rogers then jumped in to point out that most of the cooking had been done by Brook and Martin Kemp, which prompted Dec to cheekily quip: "What’s your problem with Kelly Brook?"

"Don’t you start," Ant swiftly retorted. "I don’t have a problem with Kelly Brook, thank you."

The comments were seen as an indirect dig at Kelly Brook, who is camp chef (ITV)

Ant and Dec's alleged feud with Kelly Brook explained

This isn't the first time Ant and Dec have addressed the situation with Brook and her short-lived time on BGT, with the pair previously discussing the topic in their autobiography Ooh! What a Lovely Pair: Our Story.

In the book, Dec recalls seeing Brook appear nervous before filming, prompting him to reassure her that it was 'great fun'.

This led to an awkward exchange between the pair as Dec claimed she then asked: "And what do you do on the show?" Which suggested she wasn't a viewer.

"I looked at Simon [Cowell], who was sitting next to me. He turned to Kelly and said, 'Kelly, you have seen the show, haven't you?'" he recalled Cowell saying. "To which she replied, 'Yeah… well, bits'."

Dec added: "I don't want to sound like an egomaniac, but the last person who said, 'And what do you do?' was the Queen when I met her at the party for ITV's fiftieth anniversary."

The alleged feud dates back to Brook's short lived stint on BGT (ITV)

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It's also confirmed in the book that they'd been 'annoyed' by Brook's hiring, noting that 'no one could give us a good reason why Kelly was on board'.

Meanwhile, Brook would later hit back, saying: "There was nothing I could do in this country after Britain's Got Talent. The people at ITV were telling me that I had upset Ant and Dec and that was it. I would love to have stayed on the show.

"I really felt it was working out. Ant and Dec had never been anything but pleasant to my face but, clearly, they didn't want me on the show."

She continued: "Their egos are such that they were saying to themselves 'How dare she think she can come on to our show?', and since then they've been very vocal about their displeasure at me being there."

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! airs nightly at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX.