GK Barry has admitted she would ‘never do I’m A Celeb again’ as she lifted the lid on how ‘tough’ she found the Jungle experience during Loose Women on Tuesday.
The podcaster-turned-reality star, 25, looked glamorous as she returned to the ITV show following her stint Down Under.
Reflecting on the experience, she candidly revealed it was the ‘hardest thing she’s ever done’ in her life.
Grace revealed: ‘I would say I’ve recovered eating wise – I’ve been eating everything. But that experience… everyone says ‘that is going to be the best thing you’ve ever done’. I will never do that again.
‘It is so tough and no one tells you how tough it is but it was amazing to make so many new friends, meet Ant and Dec and wear my hair in plaits everyday.’
When asked what was most difficult, she explained: ‘The boredom and the hunger. You’d sleep and you’d wake up and still not knowing what time it is. It’s like, ‘Have I even slept an hour?’ It was really, really tough.’
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GK Barry has admitted she would ‘never do I’m A Celeb again’ as she lifted the lid on how ‘tough’ she found the Jungle experience during Loose Women on Tuesday
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Reflecting on the experience, she candidly revealed: ‘I’ve recovered eating wise but that experience, I will never do that again’
Speaking about her friendship with fellow Loose Women star Jane Moore, GK gushed: ‘Thank god Jane was there. She really helped me.
‘When I was getting a bit down in there, she clocked straight away, come and lie with me. I called her my jungle mum. She was lovely.’
When quizzed on who she was worried about meeting, GK quipped: ‘I thought Jane, the papers are like fierce woman who is strong, I thought she was going to hate me.’
GK was also reunited with fellow campmate Reverend Richard Coles during Tuesday’s show, who she struck up an unlikely friendship with in the Jungle.
The I’m A Celeb star, 62, said: ‘I went in hoping for a bromance I just didn’t expect it to be with GK. The minute we met we were on the same wavelength.’
He contined that it was a ‘complete surprise’ to him that he made it so far in the reality show, and that he assumed he was ‘piggybacking’ off GK’s fans.
When asked if the duo have any projects planned for the future, the Reverend seemed to hint at the possibility of a travel show.
‘I’d love to take some trips to interesting places with GK,’ he revealed, as he discussed the prospect of working with his new pal.
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The podcaster-turned-reality star, 25, looked glamorous as she returned to the ITV show following her stint Down Under
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Reflecting on the experience, she candidly revealed it was the ‘hardest thing she’s ever done’ in her life
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Speaking about her friendship with fellow Loose Women star Jane Moore , GK gushed: ‘Thank god Jane was there. She really helped me’
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GK was also reunited with fellow campmate Reverend Richard Coles during Tuesday’s show, who she struck up an unlikely friendship with in the Jungle
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The I’m A Celeb star, 62, said: ‘I went in hoping for a bromance I just didn’t expect it to be with GK. The minute we met we were on the same wavelength’
It comes just after GK stunned in a red and white sparkly minidress as she returned to the stage for her UK podcast tour on Sunday.
She put on a very glitzy display as she stepped out in glittery chandelier-shaped dress which featured a silver sparkly trim.
GK – whose full name is Grace Eleanor Keeling – paired her festive ensemble with a pair of red satin heeled pumps as she walked out on stage at Wembley Arena.
For her Saving Grace podcast Christmas Special, she was seen being playful backstage as she posed with a fake snake on her shoulders.
For her appearance, the beauty put her unique arm tattoos on full display as she styled her long luminous locks into lose beachy waves.
London is just the first location of her UK tour as she is also set to venture out to Sheffield, Glasgow and Liverpool.
Her return to stage and screen come just days after she sent fans in overdrive after sharing her ‘jungle essentials’ which include a ‘wine, fake tan and Canesten’.
GK took to her Instagram following her stint on the hit ITV show, spilling the beans on the must-haves she brought with her Down Under.
She shared a look at her open luggage showing the essential items.
The essentials also included a pair of Crocs slippers, a book called ‘Why Mom Stopped Stripping’, fake lashes, Digestive dark chocolate biscuits, a deodorant, a rescue remedy spray and a silky sleep mask.
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GK stunned in a red and white sparkly minidress as she returned to the stage for her UK podcast tour on Sunday
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She put on a very glitzy display as she stepped out in glittery chandelier-shaped dress which featured a silver sparkly trim
She captioned: ‘POV: Grace packed her suitcase with her Jungle Essentials. Wine to handle those Jungle nights, fake tan for the glow, and the Canesten… well that’s self explanatory x.’
Fans were left in stitches and flooded the comment section below the post, praising her for not forgetting the ‘rescue remedy’ spray.
‘The rescue remedy’; ‘Rescue remedy is so real’; ‘bit of us’;’cool essentials’; ‘bear grylls who’; ‘The rescue remedy got me’; ‘So true girl’; ‘The rescue remedy with a straw’.
Even the Crocs official account commented as the internet star included a pair of the cosy slippers: ‘Couldn’t be more ready to take on the jungle!’
During her time in the jungle, Grace revealed the incredibly expensive purchase she made after achieving overnight fame following her social media success.
The star soared to fame during the first Covid-19 lockdown when she started making TikToks about her daily life while studying film at Nottingham Trent University.
A successful podcast and guest stints on Loose Women have followed, and she’s also kept fans on their toes while documenting her love life.
Chatting with her pal Reverend Richard Coles she confessed she impulsively bought a Porsche after thinking: ‘I could buy a Porsche and it would not be an issue.’
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Her return to the stage and screen comes just days after she sent fans in overdrive after sharing her ‘jungle essentials’ which include a ‘wine, fake tan and Canesten’
Richard asked the star: ‘So Grace did you go from working in Costa to all of a sudden being able to buy a house?’
As she replied: ‘Yeah,’ he continued: ‘So you didn’t go from poor, poor, poor, a little less poor, a bit more money, you went from poor to rich?’
Grace then explained: ‘Yeah, pretty quick. And I remember being like, ‘I’m making enough money to buy a new car now’.
‘I remember a Porsche drove past me as I had that thought and I remember thinking, ‘I could buy a Porsche and it would not be an issue.’
‘I went to the centre, I was looking at an old one that was cheaper, but the one that I wanted was next to it and it was so nice.
‘I rang my accountant and I was like, ‘Can I do it?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah’, so I bought it. I picked it up two days later.’
At present, she now has a huge 3.8million followers on TikTok, 61,000 subscribers on YouTube and an impressive one million fans on Instagram.
Cambridge-born Grace went on to create her very on podcast, Saving Grace, in April 2022 and has interviewed numerous celebrities including Coleen Nolan, Olivia Bowen and Alan Carr.
In early 2024, GK took the podcast, which is also uploaded as a vodcast on YouTube, on a sold-out tour around the country.
Since gaining recognition online, GK has made a number of TV appearances and this year was made a regular guest panelist on Loose Women – and made history as the youngest panelist to appear on the show.
