‘GK Barry doesn’t deserve I’m A Celebrity backlash for speaking to me’

GK Barry has been defended content creator Bonnie Blue, the controversial star who she interviewed in a conversation that’s been heavily criticised by people online.

It’s been claimed that following the interview, ITV has been having ‘crisis talks’ about GK, who is reportedly in the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! line-up for the 2024 series.

Bonnie is an adult content creator who recently went viral after revealing that she had sex with 158 people in two weeks, explaining how she has specifically ventured to student areas in Australia and the UK to sleep with 18-year-olds who she describes as ‘barely legal’.

The 25-year-old explained how after advertising her location, some people will queue up for hours to have sex with her, first showing her photo ID and signing consent forms, which include agreeing for their encounter to be filmed and uploaded to her OnlyFans.

GK, whose full name is Grace Keeling, recently interviewed Bonnie on her podcast Saving Grace.

While it’s been claimed that promotional clips from the interview were removed from Instagram and Tiktok, the full interview – which is just under 44 minutes long – is still up on YouTube, where it’s garnered more than a quarter of a million views in less than two weeks.

Anna then replied: ‘I guess it’s the knowledge of how well-informed they are. It’s the knowledge that this is online forever. And if they are 18, they’ve just left school. Do they have the maturity to be able to make those kinds of decisions? ‘Cause that is a huge decision.

‘Your sex tape being online for good and, let’s be honest, you are earning the money from that. I guess it does beg a kind of power dynamic of are they mature enough to consent to that? I guess that’s the big question.’

Bonnie answered: ‘Yeah, 100%. The thing is with that then, it’s if we’re saying 18 is too young to consent, they need to change the law. Do you know what I mean? If the law is 18, I’m going to abide by it and I’ll go for 18. If they change it to 21, I’ll up it to 21. So when people have got an issue with that, they’re sort of just putting their other problems on me. Like if you don’t agree with it being 18, go to Parliament. Stop, get out of my comment section.’

According to a source, the controversy that GK’s interview with Bonnie has sparked has resulted in an ‘absolute PR nightmare’ for I’m A Celebrity.

‘I’m A Celeb is a family show and they can’t have anyone on there who agrees with sleeping with barely 18 year olds,’ they told The Sun.

‘The top brass have held crisis talks as to how they handle the backlash with GK enters the show. GK has deleted the video but the furore hasn’t gone away.

‘The backlash is already huge on YouTube and social media this is an absolute PR nightmare for ITV.’

The source added that the show ‘relies on advertisers wanting to spend money on the show’, so it’s ‘not a good look when one of the campmates has had someone so controversial on her podcast and agreed with everything she said’.

Metro.co.uk has contacted ITV and GK Barry’s representatives for comment.

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! returns on Sunday November 17 on ITV1 and ITVX.

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