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I’m a Celebrity fans were left shocked by a risqué chat between content creator GK Barry and Reverend Richard Coles on Monday night’s show (25 November).
After a heart-to-heart about Coles’s experience of being a gay vicar, Barry – who earlier in the series opened up about her sexuality and coming out – talked about how she used to be religious. She recalled going to a religious camp when she was younger, where there were men telling her not to have sex before she was married.
She said that even at 13, she thought: “Well, that’s not gonna happen. I see my future and it involves scissoring.”
Coles, 62, then asked Barry, 25, what scissoring is. She chose not to explain it to him in detail, but did tell him it was something that lesbians do. He then started making jokes about the “sizzling scissoring sisterhood”, and the pair collapsed into giggles.
Viewers were taken aback, to say the least. “Talking about scissoring with a reverend. I’m a Celeb is not real,” wrote one fan on X.
“My fav gays,” shared another.
A third wrote: “The Rev and GK talking about scissoring on I’m a Celeb lol. Not what I expected on a Monday evening but what legends lol.”
“So I NEED a podcast called GK and the Rev… like yesterday!” added a fourth. “They are great together and I would listen to it religiously! (No pun intended!)”
Read more updates from Monday night’s I’m a Celebrity here.
While Barry and Coles have formed a surprising friendship, others in the camp have not been getting on so swimmingly this season.
Series host Ant McPartlin has suggested that Coronation Street star Alan Halsall was being “passive aggressive” before an argument broke out between him and BBC Radio 1 DJ Dean McCullough.
And Loose Women’s Jane Moore accused former boxing champion Barry McGuigan of ageism and misogyny.
I’m a Celebrity airs nightly on ITV at 9pm. Meet all the contestants here.
