Inside Rebekah Vardy's disastrous I'm A Celeb stint where she broke down and was branded a bully

broke down in tears following her , as she was branded a bully.

on the show back in 2017, but her stint in the jungle was overshadowed by a cruel bullying scandal that involved Rebekah, Jamie Lomas, and Dennis Wise. The famous faces were accused of bullying comedian Iain Lee, who was a late arrival into the camp, and viewers were horrified to see the celebrities ganging up on Iain, who confessed he suffered from depression.

His late arrival caused shockwaves through the camp, and viewers were gobsmacked when the comedian became isolated from the group over an incident dubbed Strawberrygate. Iain and boxer Amir had managed to successfully win a treat after completing a challenge, and both devoured the huge plate of strawberries and cream before going back to their campmates. Amir later convinced his fellow celebrities that it was Iain’s idea to eat the strawberries, when in fact it was the boxer who suggested it first, and encouraged the comedian to join him in eating the treat.

After the incident, Iain was treated poorly by some of his campmates, and Rebekah was one of the celebs who had an intense dislike for the comedian. In one scene, viewers were astonished when she claimed Iain was using his mental health to gain sympathy with fans and win the show. “He is going in there to win and he is playing the sympathy card and he isolates himself from the rest of the camp and then as soon as the cameras are on he wants the limelight,” she fumed.

Viewers were stunned, and many called for her to be stripped of her role as a mental health ambassador for the charity YoungMinds. She was the fourth celeb to be voted off the show, and as she headed back to the hotel with her family, she was seen breaking down in tears after and confronted her over the bullying allegations live on TV. “You know what, I was the one that was being the most supportive of him. A bully? I’ve never been a bully in my whole entire life,” she sobbed as she was comforted by her dad.

However, Iain refused to let Rebekah get away with her cruel treatment, and in 2022, he blasted the WAG for making him “f***ing miserable” in the jungle. “She encouraged people not to talk to me and left me isolated (apart from two camp mates who were not taken in by her). When she came out of the camp she told lies about me. She bullied my sister who was staying in and told her, ‘In my , men don’t cry’,” he fired in a rant on .

Rebekah denied she was a bully, and she told The Sun that her scenes on the show had been “edited” to make her look bad. “Edited TV looks a certain way. I don’t have anything bad to say about him,” she insisted.

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