The opening episode of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! 2025 sparked an unexpected wave of conversation online after viewers noticed what appeared to be an awkward moment involving hosts Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly and new campmate Kelly Brook.
Social media lit up within minutes of the premiere, with fans debating whether the presenting duo intentionally skipped over Brook during the introductions or whether the moment was simply an editing quirk. Regardless, the brief exchange has already become one of the season’s first talking points—and its only episode one.
Within minutes, timelines were filled with light-hearted outrage, memes, and tongue-in-cheek commentary. “Just realised. Doesn’t Kelly Brook not like Ant and Dec after what happened at Britain’s Got Talent?” one viewer posted on X (formerly Twitter). Another joked, “Do people realise Kelly Brook & Ant and Dec have serious beef with each other?.”
Do people realise Kelly Brook & Ant and Dec have serious beef with each other? #ImACeleb pic.twitter.com/RfFnial0pT
— Andrew McBride (@andrewmcb) November 16, 2025
It’s believed the rift stems from 2009, when Brook alleged that the pair were involved in her being dropped from her Britain’s Got Talent judging role after she remarked that she wasn’t entirely sure what they did on the show, a comment that reportedly ignited a “clash of egos.”
Ahead of her time in the jungle, Brook appeared eager to smooth things over. In her pre-show interview, she even joked that her ideal campmates would be “Ant & Dec” adding that the pair “are very well dressed and it would be fun to be in with them to see how they survive.”
Donnelly previously addressed the long-rumoured tension in the duo’s 2010 autobiography, where he admitted he had been puzzled by her sudden addition to Britain’s Got Talent.
Brook had briefly joined the judging panel for the third series in 2009, becoming the show’s first fourth judge alongside Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan. But her stint was short-lived: she was removed after a single week, with producers claiming the four-judge format simply “complicated” the show.
Brook, however, maintained that her exit stemmed from an uncomfortable interaction involving the hosts. In Ooh! What a Lovely Pair: Our Story, Dec recounted the moment: “Kelly looked nervous, so I told her it was going to be great fun and to just relax…
“She nodded, then looked at me and said, ‘And what do you do on the show?’ I looked at Simon, who was sat next to me, he turned to Kelly and said, ‘Kelly, you have seen the show, haven’t you?’ To which she replied, ‘Yeah… well, bits’.
“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.”
Brook later pushed back, saying the fallout had effectively halted her UK career. “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.
“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.”
