I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! Australia 2023 evictee Ian “Dicko” Dickson has confirmed there was a heated spat between Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Domenica Calarco that fans didn’t see.
Exclusively revealed in episode 279 of the So Dramatic! podcast, Domenica used “vile” language towards the former Studio Ten host in scenes that were ultimately cut from the show.
Now, Dicko has taken to The Kyle and Jackie O Show to dish on what actually went down, and yikes.
“It got a little bit more heated after that,” the ex-Australian Idol judge said of the argument.
When Jackie O Henderson questioned why it wasn’t aired, he said: “Because it might have involved the C-bomb.”
Clarifying that Domenica called Kerri-Anne the controversial term, Dicko said it was “one of the most remarkable thing [he’s] ever seen”.
“You know, Domenica was in the wrong. She really should not have blown up like that,” he continued.
“But she’s a feisty westie, and she went from nought to gremlin in five seconds.” LOL.
Sources revealed I’m a Celebrity‘s Kerri-Anne Kennerley is in trauma therapy
ICYMI: Kerri-Anne sensationally quit I’m A Celebrity after she refused to eat a testicle during a challenge.
Viewers saw the 69-year-old TV legend get emotional when she returned to camp, as she told her campmates Domenica launched a tirade at her.
“The abuse was quite overwhelming,” she said in her final scenes on the show.
“To be called the most self-centred b*tch she’s ever met, and the contract queen, time and time again.
“I’ve made a choice – and it was a hard choice because I’d love to stay. But it’s never going to work. This just morphed into something that it shouldn’t have been.”
As revealed in the So Dramatic! podcast, the events caused such a toll on Kerri-Anne’s mental health, she has been seeing a trauma counsellor since leaving the show.
“Kerri-Anne is in therapy right now because of Domenica,” the source said.
“She’s not coping at all and has taken a real hit from it all. It’s quite a scary thing to go through.”
Entertainment Peter Ford backed up therapy claims
The new intel has also been backed up by entertainment reporter Peter Ford during a chat on 3AW radio on April 3 following Kerri-Anne’s eviction from the show.
“I do think, also having spoken to her, that she was treated very badly in there and she has told me she was subjected to the most vile abuse from that vulgar woman from MAFS… foul-mouthed abuse that went on for more than 10 minutes and no one intervened,” Peter said.
Kerri-Anne is also said to be donating her hefty salary from the show to her nominated charity, Spinal Cure Australia, because she feels “like she failed” by checking out after just three days.
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