GK Barry reveals the bizarre thing she was forced to smell while filming Jimmy Carr’s show that she 'hasn't recovered' from
GK Barry has opened up on her time working alongside British comedian legend Jimmy Carr, and how one experience on his show has never left her.
The social media star, real name Grace Keeling, is a panelist and co-host alongside Jimmy Carr and Jamali Maddix on the Comedy Central UK panel show Jimmy Carr's Am I The A**hole?
Audiences have seen GK react to some pretty wild stories, including a man who faked having a baby and another who put his dog on a specialist vegan diet.
Ahead of the new series, GK Barry has opened up about meeting Carr, 54, for the first time and how she eventually settled into working alongside him after being initially terrified of the experience.
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"I was thankful to be asked back for the second season, and I thank God I can sit alongside Jimmy Carr and Jamali Maddix, as it’s probably the highlight of my life," she explained.
"I feel more prepared for season two. I’m still starstruck by Jimmy, but it’s great I can now hold a semi-conversation with him.
"He is the loveliest man, but he’ll ask, 'how’s your day going?', and for some reason I won’t be able to get a word out.
"Now we know each other, we can get away with a lot more. I like being able to insult Jimmy without having projectile diarrhoea after the show. We’re a lot more relaxed, so we can have a go at each other."
She added: "I’ve learned Jimmy is actually really normal. One day we were both walking the same way to our cars, and he wasn’t in a suit. I said to him, 'That makes me really uncomfortable.'
"I always imagined him going to bed still in his three-piece suit.
"His partner watches the same telly as me, so when I speak to him, I ask if his wife has watched Below Deck and her opinion of what happened. That’s what we bond over."
GK 'hasn't recovered' from most shocking moment from new season
This season, GK says there are still a lot more shocking stories to come and that she isn't as 'immune' to crazy stories as she thought she was.
"After the first series I thought nothing will shock me and that I’m now immune to being shocked," she explained. "But this second series has proved that, no, I am not immune to being shocked.
"What I’ve learned is people lack social awareness; when they’re talking about what they’ve done - out loud so we can hear them - they still don’t believe it was a bad thing to do. That amazes me."
She revealed that one part of filming the new series that has stuck with her was when she had to sniff a woman's farts that were trapped inside a jar.
The woman actually sells her own farts to willing customers online, and is dubbed a 'fart-fluencer', with GK describing how she 'hasn't mentally recovered' and likened it to the stench of a corpse.
"This season, I sniffed a fart in a jar, produced by a woman who sells farts," she said. "Jamali and I were both meant to sniff the jar, but he refused.
"One thing about me is I fully commit for this show, so I sniffed the jar and I mentally haven't recovered. It’ll be great viewing for the audience. It was insane.
"She's a fart-fluencer, so people pay her to fart on her husband and others want to buy her farts. She places two cotton balls in a jar to lock the scent in, so when I opened the jar the scent was there and then was gone.
"I’ve never smelt a corpse, but I can only imagine that’s what one smells like. Something was fermenting.
"That’s the one which has stood out, but the team have found a new level of contributors and storytellers for this series.
"Perhaps people were a bit scared to put themselves out there for the first series, whereas now they’ve seen how well the show is made and have decided to go for it."
The second season of the very unfiltered show premiered on 2 November on Comedy Central UK and is also available to stream on Paramount+ UK & Ireland.
Topics: GK Barry, Jimmy Carr, Entertainment, TV
James Holt
