Jimmy Bullard was reportedly livid when he found a fellow campmate was being paid extra to return to I am A Movie star… Get Me Out Of Right here!
The previous skilled footballer, 47, first entered the Australian jungle in 2014, the place he was the primary to be eradicated earlier than Carl ‘Foggy’ Fogarty was topped the winner.
Now he is again for a second strive, hoping to enhance on his earlier outcome on the All Stars version, I am A Movie star South Africa.
He’ll be part of the likes of Gemma Collins, Scarlett Moffatt, Sir Mo Farah and Seann Walsh – however there’s one individual he is apparently not proud of.
It’s claimed Jimmy was ‘livid’ when he found 2018 winner Harry Redknapp was receiving the next payment, based on The Solar.
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“Jimmy anticipated to get the identical cash as Harry,” the supply stated.
“Nonetheless, Harry is taken into account one of many largest names within the South African collection,” they argued.
“He additionally enjoys spending time at dwelling together with his spouse Sandra, and it might have price loads for him to spend time in South Africa with out her.”
It’s at present unknown how a lot Jimmy and footie supervisor Harry, 79, are paid for his or her comebacks.
Nonetheless, after they first appeared on their respective collection, their salaries had been additionally vastly completely different.
Jimmy reportedly acquired £100,000 12 years in the past, whereas Harry turned one of many highest-paid stars ever with a £500,000 payment, an quantity that Boy George and Caitlyn Jenner are additionally believed to have acquired.
Different celebrities to have collected hefty paychecks lately embody Noel Edmonds, who was paid £600,000 in 2018, earlier than the massive bounce to £1.5 million for Nigel Farage in 2023. Within the final collection, runner-up Coleen Rooney additionally bought the eye-watering sum.
However regardless of his supposed outrage this time, Jimmy initially stated he would have carried out the present whether or not he bought paid or not.
He acknowledged, “I might have come to the jungle for nothing.
“I might have paid them somewhat cash to get me in there.”
Jimmy and Harry aren’t any strangers both, with a historical past courting again greater than twenty years.
In 1999, Harry signed Jimmy for £20,000 to play for West Ham United from Gravesend & Northfleet.
However like his I am A Celeb stint, it did not final lengthy and was let go on the finish of the 2000-2001 season.
From tomorrow night time, I am A Celeb South Africa will crown its second ever Jungle Legend after Myleene Klass emerged victorious final season.
As soon as once more, singer Sinitta, Pussycat Doll Ashley Roberts, retired boxer David Haye, DJ and Purple Dwarf actor Craig Charles, Coronation Avenue star Beverley Callard and Waterloo Street actor Adam Thomas return for Ant, Dec and a few gritty Bushtucker Trials.
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Forward of the premiere, Gogglebox star Scarlett admitted the environment was “much less harmonious” within the camp in comparison with her 2016 collection, which she received.
Throughout a media roundtable, the 35-year-old TV persona stated: ‘As a result of we have all carried out it, I assumed, “Oh, that is going to be straightforward!”
‘It was much more intense; it was hardcore.”
Scarlett added: “It wasn’t as harmonious as the primary time I went in, simply because I feel we had been all such massive characters.
“If we might all simply get alongside on a regular basis after we’re such massive characters, I do not suppose anybody would have believed it, however I feel it’s going to make for good leisure.”
It has been reported that cleaning soap star Adam had a heated argument with Jimmy throughout filming, and so they not communicate to one another.
Jimmy Bullard’s representatives have been contacted for remark.
I am a celeb… Get me out of right here! South Africa begins tomorrow at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX
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