I'm A Celeb fans turn on Dean McCullough over blatant 'lie'

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! viewers accused Dean McCullough of fibbing to the show's presenters. Sunday night's highlights featured 33 year old broadcaster Dean teaming up with 38 year old WAG Coleen Rooney for a particularly nasty trial on the popular ITV reality series.

The challenge involved Dean searching through containers filled with fish offal and animal parts to locate mechanical tools. As Dean frantically searched for the items, Coleen lay in the back of a lorry, attempting to unlock stars with any tools Dean could provide.

But Coleen wasn't alone; she was joined by a host of creepy crawlies including crickets, cockroaches, mealworms, rats, and more. Despite being bombarded with more fish innards and foul liquids while he rummaged in the front of the lorry, Dean remained vocal, and together with Coleen they secured nine stars for their campmates a notable achievement compared to other trials this season, reports the Mirror.

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However, during the post-trial chat with Ant and Dec, where the duo praised Dean for his improved performance, viewers were shocked when Dean joked: "I'm a fighter, not a quitter." Given that Dean had previously shouted " I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here" to bow out of two trials, many viewers called him out for claiming he wasn't a quitter.

On social media, fans didn't hold back expressing their opinions about Dean, with cutting remarks including: "'I'm not a quitter'... Dean, you've quit twice in the space of a week, don't lie #ImACeleb."

"Dean said 'I'm not a quitter I'm a fighter' ... yes you are a quitter and you were scared of fish guts, I really wish he was in the back of the trailer #ImACeleb," another viewer said.

Among the flak aimed at Dean, someone shared a perplexed reaction GIF saying: "'i'm not a quitter' everyone after dean quit most of his trials #ImACeleb," while another sniped: "What was that noise? Oh it was just half of the country snorting when Dean said that he's not a quitter #ImACeleb."