I’m A Celebrity star GK Barry admits she ‘made people cry’ on chaotic ITV show

GK Barry is back on our screens – and there’s sure to be chaos (Picture: ITV)

She famously burst into floods of tears during her first I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Bushtucker Trial – but in her latest show, GK Barry is actually making other people cry.

The TikTok sensation-turned-TV personality has been taking the industry by storm in recent years. Thanks to her 4.1million-strong following, she’s made her way to primetime, appearing on This Morning, Loose Women, The Wheel, and finishing fifth in the Jungle.

And for her latest television project, she’s teaming up with three familiar faces for some outrageous hidden camera action.

Titled Celebrity Sabotage, in the ITV reality series, GK (real name Grace Keeling), Judi Love, Joel Dommett, and Sam Thompson have their work cut out as they pull pranks on the public to win them cash prizes.

With zero rules and chaos inevitable from the get-go, Celebrity Sabotage forces the quartet to play dirty for the greater good – and GK went through all the emotions during filming.

Speaking to Metro, the 26-year-old influencer explains: ‘We are based in Mission HQ. Members of the public think they’re going on a “show,” say, a dating or cooking show. Basically, we have to sabotage the show to earn money [for them] without getting caught.

She famously burst into tears when taking on her Bushtucker Trials (Picture: Rich Lowe/ITV/Shutterstock) …but now she’s the one making people cry (Picture: ITV)

‘It was pure chaos. We were making people cry, but then there’s the amazing reveal at the end where they’ve earned money.’

As for what kinds of mischief the group got up to, she shares: ‘One was a dog show, and I had to steal something off the dog. However, it was a Great Dane, and the dog was going absolutely ballistic at me, all the while I’ve got his owner turned round facing the wall, trying to act really natural.

‘It was genuinely so stressful. I’ve never looked at a Great Dane the same since.’

GK isn’t just a prankster on-screen either, as she also admits to winding up her girlfriend, Ella Rutherford, constantly… which doesn’t always provoke the reaction she’d like.

‘The other day, I put an “old man” mask on and woke her up from her sleep. But the issue is, because I’m constantly [playing pranks], she doesn’t react anymore.’

‘So, I woke her looking like an old man, and she just went, “What are you doing?”,’ she laughs.

Celebrity Sabotage brings together some of TV’s most popular faces, who take on chaotic challenges to win money for the public (Picture: ITV)

GK is famously unfiltered, as she often shares her candid TMI confessions and dicey opinions online.

Asked for another unpopular opinion, she shares one that we, too, could probably get on board with.

‘I love an “Irish exit” [at a party], and we should all leave without telling anyone. I do not believe in saying goodbye.

‘I hate when you have to say goodbye in a group setting, and now we’re all hugging. Irish goodbyes should be completely normal and acceptable.’

Honestly, we think she’s onto something.

Since she began posting TikTok videos during lockdown, Grace has established a loyal audience who love her podcast, buy tickets for her live shows, and tune in to see her on the nation’s biggest programmes.

GK admits she’s a prankster in real life (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

In 2024, she joined the Loose Women panel, sitting alongside the daytime show’s most esteemed stars and weighing in on hot topics.

There’s been plenty of drama, of course, with claims that she and Olivia Attwood were ‘feuding’ and refused to speak off-camera.

However, GK makes it clear that she’s got a great relationship with her co-stars, telling us that there’s one Loose Woman in particular she’s always desperate to hear stories from.

‘I’d say Denise [Welch],’ she replies when asked who she’s learned the most from. ‘She has lived a thousand lives.

‘Every time I sit down with her, I think, “Wow, this is crazy.” She’s like, “Yeah, so I was with Charli [XCX], and then the weekend after I was in LA with [Real Housewives star] Lisa Vanderpump”.’

And Denise is far from her only pal in the business, as she’s still close with former campmate Reverend Richard Coles, having melted the country’s hearts when they bonded in the I’m A Celeb camp.

The influencer has been caught up in feud rumours with her co-stars in the past (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock) Thanks to seizing every opportunity internet fame has brought her way, she’s one of Britain’s brightest broadcasters now (Picture: Ian West/PA Wire)

‘God bless that man,’ she says when he’s brought up. ‘I text him sometimes, and he doesn’t know how to use emojis. So, he’ll go, “Thank you for the picture.”

‘I want him to do my [future] wedding and funeral.’

As for the celeb she’d like to swap places with for a day, GK has a quirky answer.

‘I would love to live, just for a day, in Princess Anne’s shoes.

‘I want to see how she rides the horse and [get] all the goss that goes on in the royal family. Priceless gossip.’

Celebrity Sabotage begins Saturday, 21 March, on ITV1 and ITVX.

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