He’s not made many friends and now many reckon he’s secured his place as the first star out…

Radio 1 DJ Dean McCullough may be the first star to leave I’m A Celeb (Image: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

I’m A Celeb fans have called for Dean McCullough to be axed after his clash with a campmate, his non-stop screaming during trials and his refusal to stop singing in the mornings – with many insisting his early elimination from the jungle is all but assured. The BBC Radio 1 DJ, 32, was little known before his stint on the ITV hit but has come to dominate the show thanks to being voted to do trials night after night.

Sunday’s episode saw him set off on a collision course with Tulisa after insisting he wouldn’t halt his early morning singing for anyone. One viewer wrote: “What’s really irked me in this episode and maybe it was a joke but when tulisa said no singing at the crack of dawn and he did his talking head saying ‘do you think that will stop me’ or whatever he said – that’s the height of ignorance! No respect for any of his camp mates. Hope she eats him alive.”

Dean has become a fixture on screens night after night (Image: James Gourley/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Many turned against him after Saturday’s I’m A Celeb when Dean clashed with Coronation Street’s Alan Halsall. The actor woke Dean so he could carry out his wood-collecting duties alongside Jane Moore. However, he was none too pleased to be disturbed, barely budging even when Alan enquired: “You don’t fancy it? No?”

Once Alan had set off, Dean joined them, dismissively telling Alan, who was camp leader: “You can go back now.” The soap star replied: “I was trying to wake you up as soft as I could.” Dean snapped: “Listen to me. If you’re gonna wake me up, you need to give me a minute, alright?

“It takes a couple of minutes for my contact lenses to get back working again, alright, so you don’t need to turn around to me and say ‘Do you not fancy it? OK? And then turn around and walk away.”

Alan explained: “I’ve listened to you, Jane was halfway down here, that’s why I went…” but Dean cut in, “Ok I get that but you need to give me a minute mate.” The squabble didn’t stop there, with Dean venting his frustration in the Bush Telegraph.

He fumed: “I opened my eyes and wee Tyrone from Coronation Street is like: ‘Come on, mate, you need to go down to the bottom of the creek.’ He didn’t even give me a chance to say yes or no because he went: ‘You don’t fancy it? No? ‘ and ran.

“He was being a real camp leader. I was like: ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa don’t dig me out like that.’ And I had to say to him: ‘If you’re going to say: ‘Don’t fancy it? ‘ – give me a chance’. Because of course I fancy it. I want to help Jane. I went straight down and helped her.”

Dean was later seen making amends with Jane before lending a hand with carrying wood for the campfire. Meanwhile, Alan offered an explanation from the Bush Telegraph, “It was a flippant comment, I’m sorry if you took it in the wrong way. Wasn’t actually meant like that, it was just a bit of a joke. If I was asleep and you woke me up, I won’t fancy it either.”

Some reckoned the run-in has confirmed him as the first star to be getting sent home. One wrote: “Dean’s just earned himself the first elimination I think” while another insisted he “definitely needs to be the first one to be voted out of the jungle”.

A third agreed: “That was uncomfortable to watch! Alan is one of the nicest men in showbiz and i think Dean just showed his true colours.” Another said: “I’m convinced Dean thought there would be no cameras near the wood collecting place and let his true colours show.”

Others thought Dean believes himself to be popular among his co-stars. They wrote: “The camp gave him a hero’s welcome by running him a bath when he got 2 stars, and received a similar welcome to the junkyard. He thinks he is some kind of King. Thank goodness he didn’t get voted to be camp leader.”

Instead that honour fell to Danny Jones and Barry McGuigan, who also prompted discord in camp from another star, with Loose Women’s Jane Moore making her feelings at having to was up extremely clear.