Soap star Gemma Merna is said to be fuming after she was replaced on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! by Dublin model Nadia Forde.
The Hollyoaks star was all set to enter the jungle but was replaced last minute by the model turned singer.
Gemma had wrapped her final episode as Carmel McQueen on the popular Channel 4 series, with her final episode airing this week.
TV insiders told Goss.ie that Gemma was gutted when she found out Nadia was taking her place.
Upset: Gemma was meant to be on I’m A Celeb
“Gemma is fuming. Everything was set for the jungle she had been in talks for so long, she was so excited to head to Australia.
“Then all of a sudden this Irish girl replaced her. No one knows who she is in the UK and Gemma is confused by it all,” the source explained.
And Goss.ie has learned that Nadia was on a separate list of stars lined up for the show when she was contacted by producers.
Jungle time: Nadia will enter the jungle on Sunday | ITV
“Nadia was on a list of people to go into the jungle but she wasn’t in the original line up.
“There was changes ahead of the show and Nadia replacing Gemma was one of those changes,” an ITV source revealed.
Nadia is set to enter the jungle this Sunday, after her rumoured fling with Rory McIlroy made the UK papers in September.
Romance: Nadia was linked to Rory McIlroy | VIPIRELAND.COM
The model had been linked to the golf star after he ended his relationship to Caroline Wozniacki but it later emerged he was actually dating Belfast model Sasha Gale.
Before Rory Nadia dated rugby hunk Luke Fitzgerald, but things ended badly when he dumped the brunette in 2012.
And the Andrea Roche model previously dated FM104 DJ Mark Noble.
