I’m A Celebrity star GK Barry has revealed why she turned away from religion as a child.
The TikTok star, 25, whose real name is Grace Keeling, has sparked up an unlikely friendship with Reverend Richard Cole – to whom she made the confession.
During Monday’s episode of the ITV show, GK and Richard spoke about juggling sexuality and religion.
GK told Richard she used to be religious, and spoke about going to a religious camp when she was younger, where there were men telling her not to have sex before she was married.
She said that even at 13, she thought: ‘Well, that’s not gonna happen. I see my future and it involves scissoring now.’
I’m A Celebrity star GK Barry revealed why she turned away from religion as a child during Monday’s episode of the ITV show
The TikTok star, 25, whose real name is Grace Keeling, has sparked up an unlikely friendship with Reverend Richard Cole – to whom she made the confession
As the pair discussed faith, GK asked Richard: ‘Did you find it quite difficult being gay and doing that job?’
Richard confessed: ‘No, not at all. I’ve never given it a moment’s twinge of anxiety over whether God thought it was alright or not.
‘Whether other people thought it was alright or not, well I’m happy to have that argument…’
He added of his sexuality: ‘Also, I was not the first. Sometimes I look at documents from the early church, or the church of the middle ages and I just think – so gay.’
GK admitted in the Bush Telegraph: ‘I came into this jungle, maybe not knowing who I would gel with or who I would be close with in here and never in a million years if you told me that I would be getting on best with a reverend would I have believed you.
‘But, he is honestly… I think he might be my favourite person in here.’
During their chat, GK asked Richard who the most interesting person that he thinks he’s met. Richard replied: ‘I think I’m looking at her.’
Days earlier, GK opened up about her relationship with Lioness, Ella Rutherford, and even brought a subtle reminder of her into the I’m a Celeb camp.
GK told Richard she used to be religious, and spoke about going to a religious camp when she was younger, where there were men telling her not to have sex before she was married
She said that even at 13, she thought: ‘Well, that’s not gonna happen. I see my future and it involves scissoring now’
A sweet dedication to the Ipswitch football star, 24, on GK Barry’s nails was revealed as she has a tiny white E on the fingernail where a wedding ring would go.
Before heading into the Jungle, GK got a set of French-tipped nails and asked the manicurist to paint an E for Ella on them.
GK opened up about their relationship with her I’m A Celebrity campmates on Tuesday night’s episode.
The social media star said: ‘Obviously online I’d been like I’d slept with girls or whatever as well, but I’d only dated men.
‘It was by accident I found Ella, through a mutual friend and then I really liked her the first day I met her but I’d never told my parents.
‘I’d mentioned, ‘Oh I’m just going to see my friend Ella’ or ‘I’m staying round Ella’s’ so they’d heard her name.’
After her parents visited London from Cambridge and saw them together, they asked who Ella was and Grace confessed: ‘Oh. she’s my girlfriend’. They just love her, they never had an issue with it.’
She added: ‘To be fair I feel like the closet may have been made of glass. But they’ve always said whoever you end up with we do not care, boy or girl, we don’t care, as long as they’re not a d*ck.’
Before heading into the Jungle, GK Barry, whose real name is Grace Keeling, got a set of French-tipped nails and asked the manicurist to paint an E for Ella on them
It comes after Grace opened up about their relationship with her I’m A Celebrity campmates on Tuesday night’s episode
The Loose Women panelist had previously been in a long-term relationship with fellow TikTok sensation, Billy Hunt, who featured on her podcast, Saving Grace, and her social media pages.
The pair were introduced by Gogglebox’s Joe Baggs and speaking about how they met, Grace said: ‘So my version of events. Joe Baggs had a party. [Billy was] the only straight man there, [I] launched myself at him. It’s been history ever since.’
The pair broke up last year and Grace spoke on Young Filly’s about coming out as a lesbian, she said: ‘I feel like I went very wrong with men.
‘I don’t like men anymore. I will never go back to a man. God forbid.
‘Yeah, I just love it. I just love it. I feel like I’ve got spring in my step. I feel like I’m glowing. It’s the lesbian glow. I’ve got it. And yeah, that’s my life update.’
