The I’m A Celebrity jungle turned into a battlefield of betrayal on Tuesday night — and all because of a bag of liquorice allsorts.
The campmates had been rewarded with a rare treasure: a glittering tray of sweets including chocolate éclairs, fruit pastels, lemon sherbets and the coveted liquorice allsorts, unveiled with theatrical flair by Aitch. The celebrities practically pounced, eyes wide with child-like greed after weeks of rice and beans.
4The I’m A Celebrity campmates turned on each other in Tuesday night’s episodeCredit: imacelebrity / Instagram
From her spot on the camp bed, Ruby Wax locked onto the treats like a hawk. “Can someone pass me a chocolate one?” she called out. Vogue Williams, ever the voice of reason, announced the unofficial ration: “I think it’s around three sweets each, guys.”
Ruby ended up with the entire bag of liquorice allsorts in her possession. At first she played nice, offering them around to Shona, Tom and a few others. But then… she never let go.
EastEnders’ Shona Platt clocked it immediately. “She’s holding onto the bag,” she whispered to a fellow campmate, eyes narrowing.
Moments later, cameras caught Ruby sneaking down to the washing-up area, clutching the bag like contraband. Alone by the creek, she ripped it open and demolished the lot. In the Bush Telegraph, the 72-year-old comedian delivered an unapologetic confession straight to camera: “Sorry, it’s every man for himself now. This is so heavenly.”
The fallout was instant. Viewers at home were incandescent — some even threatening Ofcom complaints, branding Ruby’s sweet heist “disgusting” and “greedy.”
But the sweets scandal was just the spark. The camp was already a powder keg.
Tensions had been simmering ever since Aitch and Angry Ginge — pre-existing best mates from Manchester and now the bookies’ joint-favourites to win — were voted camp leader and deputy. Ruby, who had previously been thick as thieves with the pair, suddenly felt the shift in power.
During a community meeting, she confronted them head-on: “Are we playing king and deputy now, and the rest of us are the low people? I’m a little scared of you two.” She admitted she never felt that way when Vogue and Tom held the roles because “they didn’t take it seriously.”
In the Bush Telegraph, Ruby dropped a bombshell: “I think we’re divided…”
Ruby asked for a chocolate one, as she shouted across campCredit: imacelebrity / Instagram
Aitch tried to calm things down, insisting nothing had changed except he no longer had to do the pots. Ruby wasn’t having it. “No,” she fired back, “there’s a vibe.”
She wasn’t the only one questioning the Mancunian duo. When Ginge returned from a trial bragging he’d only won five stars (when he’d actually secured ten), Jack couldn’t let it slide. “I know it wasn’t intentional, Ginge,” he said, “but the way you played it got in my head. I was like — can I trust Ginge now?”
And just when you thought the drama couldn’t get any weirder, Ruby decided to gift her 24-year-old jungle “son” Angry Ginge a pair of her own red lucky underpants before his next trial. “I always wear red when I want to, you know, pull something off,” she told him with a wink.
The internet erupted. “If an older man gave his used underwear to a young woman there’d be outright outrage,” fumed one viewer. Another tagged Ofcom: “For a woman of her age, the way Ruby speaks is disgusting. Felt embarrassed watching with my 11-year-old.”
From sugar-fuelled mutiny to knicker-related controversy, the I’m A Celebrity camp has officially imploded — and with Aitch and Ginge now firmly in the firing line, this jungle war is only just beginning.