Ant And Dec Brand I’m A Celebrity Live Final A ‘Weird Night Of TV’

After getting roped into the drama during this year’s live I’m A Celebrity final, Ant and Dec have spoken out about what they’ve branded a “weird night of TV”.

During Friday night’s I’m A Celebrity: South Africa finale, the entire cast gathered to talk about their time on the show, which was filmed last year but aired on ITV over the course of this month.

However, it didn’t take long for things to take a chaotic turn, with Jimmy Bullard and David Haye both voicing their issues with fellow campmate Adam Thomas, and somewhat derailing the planned show in the process.

In the end, even the usually-neutral Ant and Dec found themselves weighing in to stick up for Adam, as they attempted to get the show back on track.

On Wednesday, the pair released a teaser for the new instalment of their podcast Hanging Out, with Declan Donnelly conceding that it was “quite the night”.

“It was a weird night of TV,” Ant McPartlin agreed, before the pair went on to address reports that David and Jimmy were eventually ejected from the studio before the recording of the spin-off I’m A Celebrity podcast Unpacked.

The Bafta-winning presenters also took the opportunity to address rumours in the tabloid press about them “coming face-to-face” with the ejected pair once filming was over in what The Sun described as an “awkward run-in”.

Ant revealed that after the taping, he saw “two people in the car park”, quickly realising it was the two campmates.

“I thought, ‘oh god, how’s your luck?’,” he admitted. “So anyway, I went over to David Haye, and he was like, ‘how brilliant was that? Wasn’t that great!’. And I was like, ‘well it was certainly talk-about TV’. I wouldn’t call it great.

“But anyway, we had a laugh and we were cool. And then I walked off and [saw] Jimmy Bullard. And I just shook his hand. And I was like, ‘look after yourself’, and he was like, ‘yeah, cheers’.

“So, there was no confrontation. He wasn’t shouting at me, I wasn’t shouting at him. I wasn’t flanked by two security guards, as it said in the paper. I think one of them was carrying my bag to the car, in a Beyoncé style.”

A show source previously told HuffPost UK: “Some campmates were uncomfortable being on stage with David and Jimmy, so we sent them home during Unpacked.”

In the days since the final, Adam has shared his side of the story, accusing his former co-stars of “bullying” him while they were in the jungle together, with David sharing his rebuttal on Thursday morning.