Social media star GK Barry is set to venture into the jungle for the upcoming series of I’m A Celebrity, which kicks off this Sunday.
The podcast host, whose real name is Grace Keeling, aims to win over viewers with her stint on the reality show, alongside nine other celebrities.
Before her jungle journey begins, her best mate has shared a side-splitting tale from a boozy night that led to an embarrassing viral incident.
YouTube personality and fellow podcaster Joe Baggs recounted: “Last year at my dad’s 60th, we were all really p****d and Grace decided to put a chocolate button on her nether regions and videod my best friend Charlie, like basically picking it up from there, but she didn’t put it on her close friends list, she put it on her main stories and then went to bed.”
“The next morning, it was all about the chocolate button debacle, with loads of replies to the story asking, ‘Was this meant for us? Grace, take this down’.”, reports OK!.
Joe believes that despite the laughs, audiences will witness a different facet of Grace in the jungle, beyond her comedic image.
He revealed: “There’s so many different levels to her, we just see the Tik-Toky humour, she’s so chronically online, the moment some news breaks, she’s on that, sarcy comments.”
“But she can also be super vulnerable, she’s so supportive of other people. She’ll drop the comedy of Saving Grace and actually hear people out and get to know people on that deeper level.”
“She’s recently got a girlfriend Ella, I think she’ll show some vulnerability with that as well by missing her, she’s gonna miss her like crazy.”
Grace rose to TikTok fame in 2020 amidst the lockdown and quickly amassed over one million followers within just a year of joining the platform.
In 2022, she launched her podcast ‘Saving Grace’ and has been taking it on tour across the UK. She’s set to enter the jungle alongside a host of celebrities including McFly’s Danny Jones, ‘Dancing on Ice’ judge Oti Mabuse, and radio personality Melvin Odoom.
Also jetting off to Australia are ‘Coronation Street’ actor Alan Halsall, ‘Loose Women’ panelist Jane Moore, Radio 1’s Dean McCullough, and renowned boxing promoter Barry McGuigan.
‘I’m A Celebrity: Unpacked’ will feature hosts Joel Dommett, Sam Thompson, and DJ Kemi Rodgers as they dissect all the latest happenings from the main show.
I’m A Celebrity begins tonight at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX.