David Haye’s Girlfriend Reacts To Controversial I’m A Celebrity Comment About Her

Throughout his time on the current all-star series of I’m A Celebrity, David Haye has repeatedly raised eyebrows due to his treatment of his campmates and various controversial comments.

Of them all, the one that perhaps ruffled the most feathers came early on in the series, when the former heavyweight champion opened up about his relationship with model Sian Osborne.

When Sinitta said he’d said it “sounds like she’s drop-dead gorgeous”, David agreed that Sian is “lovely”, before observing: “She’s got the personality of a proper ugly bird.”

As his co-stars voiced their shock at this remark, he continued: “She has, honestly. Most ugly girls realise they’ve got to have a personality, and the banter, to tell jokes and shit, so people overlook the fact that they’re not aesthetically amazing straight away.”

“It’s called ‘ugly duckling syndrome’,” he then told his stunned campmates. “Where girls are ugly when they start off, then they get pretty as they get older, but they’ve still got the personality of when they were ugly.”

At the time, Scarlett Moffatt said the quip went down “like a lead balloon”, while Beverley Callard commented that she’d “never heard anything so sexist in my life” – and the reaction among viewers was much the same.

Speaking to The Sun over the weekend, Sian responded: “I consider it a compliment. A big one.

“I’m fluent in David by now, and my family find it hilarious.”

“When David tells me I have the personality of an ugly bird – meaning a girl so full of life and character that her looks become irrelevant he is giving me something the entire modelling industry never once did,” she then claimed.

“I don’t class it as inflammatory. That’s everybody else scratching their heads looking for something to be offended.”

Meanwhile, David has once again found himself at the centre of a furore after a spat with co-star Adam Thomas, which the Emmerdale star has claimed left him feeling “broken”.

Even hosts Ant and Dec have weighed in, suggesting that the retired boxer has “crossed the line” with some of his behaviour.

The current season of I’m A Celebrity: South Africa welcomed back 12 former campmates to vie for the title of the show’s next “Legend”.

It was pre-recorded last year, meaning fans have no say over who stays and goes, but viewers will choose a winner at the end of the season through a public vote.