I'm A Celeb's GK Barry deletes controversial clips from her podcast following backlash over guest - as she gears up to enter the jungle

Nov 04, 2024

By Carolina Piras For Mailonline 13:33 03 Nov 2024, updated 14:07 03 Nov 2024

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Podcaster GK Barry has cancelled some promotional clips of one of her recent interviews with a controversial guest - ahead of her stint on I'm A Celebrity.

The internet personality, 25, is well-known for welcoming some of UK's most familiar faces like Alan Carr, Olivia Bowen, Rylan and Rob Rinder, Coleen Nolan on her Saving Grace show.

The star - whose full name is Grace Keeling - was recently joined by controversial media sensation Bonnie Blue, who made headlines for taking on a challenge to bed 100 men in a day.

The choice of guest and topic was heavily criticised and sparked backlash, and just recently eagled-eyed fans noticed GK has now removed the promotional clips of the episode on both Instagram and TikTok.

Although the presenter, who is also a new-entry in the Loose Women panel, did not remove the full episode on her YouTube channel.

MailOnline has contacted GK's representatives for a comment.

GK came under fire for the 'disappointing' choice of content, with several viewers also pointing out she lacks the ability of 'disagreeing with her own guests' and easily 'adopts their views'.

Fans raised eyebrows accusing her of having a 'very bad influence on young girls' and couldn't hide their 'shock' about the interview.

Some wrote below her YouTube clip:

'This needs to be taken down. This is absolutely grim';

'grace has a problem with never being able to disagree with her guests, never challenging them in any way, she adopts their views. this can make for great interviewing in some circumstances but agreeing with such outlandish views like this is totally irresponsible. save this talk for the incel podcasts';

'kinda dispointed with how grace changes her views and agrees with her when she could of stood on her own backbone';

'Grace agreeing with her when she's talks about husbands cheating on their wives. Honestly this is SO disappointing!';

'I feel like this video could really affect grace’s career (not to mention young girls)… this needs to be taken down.'

Fans also stormed X - formerly Twitter - with comments about GK's controversial interview ahead of her stint in the jungle, with one user urging:

'don’t think people are deeping the Bonnie Blue and GK Barry situation enough. Her audience is 13-20 year old girls. Young and impressionable. This is not the message young girls should be hearing. We need to start de-platforming.'

The social media influencer is said to be joining the likes of Coleen Rooney, Maura Higgins and Danny Jones in the Australian jungle when the ITV show returns to screens this month.

It was first reported in August that podcaster GK was in 'advanced talks' to join the I'm A Celebrity lineup.

While it was previously reported that GK was set to be appear in the latest series of Strictly Come Dancing, but turned down a spot on the scandal-plagued show.

Grace Eleanor Keeling, better known as GK Barry, is an English social media star, presenter and internet personality who soared to fame during the first Covid-19 lockdown.

During lockdown, whilst studying film at Nottingham Trent University, GK started up her TikTok account and began posted vlogs about her daily life.

She soon gained a huge following and within a year, had amassed a whopping one million followers on the video-sharing platform.

At present, she now has a huge 3.6million followers on TikTok, 61,000 subscribers on YouTube and an impressive 850,000 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.

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