New I'm A Celebrity campmate issued apology after being embroiled in race row
One of this year's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here campmates was the subject of a historic race row, it has been revealed.
YouTube star, Nella Rose, who was the second famous face to touch down in Australia on Sunday after former UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, was forced to apologise in 2020 after a series of historic tweets came to light. Nella, who is now 26, shared the offensive messages between 2012 and 2016 - beginning when she was just 12.
Footage showed the Belgium-born star declare that she was "anti-black" to the point that she "hated being black and African" herself whilst she was at school. The video emerged during Nella's rise to fame on social media, which has seen her accumulate one million TikTok followers as well as 892,000 Instagram followers.
YouTube star Nella touched down in Australia on Sunday before being whisked away to her hotel (Tim Merry/Mirror Express)Apologising for her mistake, Nella began: "I cannot explain how sorry I am for those tweets. Borderline those tweets were terrible, I’m not going to lie to you. They were terrible but I’m not going to come on here and be like 'I was 12, I was 13, I was immature, I was the product of my environment'."
She continued: "Two wrongs don’t make a right. I was foul mouthed. I was rude. I was dead wrong. I was ignorant, I’m not going to lie. I was anti-black and it’s weird to say because obviously I’m black but I was anti-black. When I was growing up, living in London, it’s not that I hated being black, but I hated being African. When you’re in year seven, year eight and stuff like that, Africans were always getting cussed.
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"People were getting cussed for having big lips, I was getting cussed for my nose and having picky hair. I was so ashamed of being African that when it came to bringing packed lunch in, I didn’t want to because I was scared that I would stink up the place. I genuinely sat there and believed by cussing Somalian people, I would turn the attention of what people were saying about me. I don’t even know how I thought that was acceptable."
As she landed Down Under, meanwhile, Nella opted to keep tight-lipped on her upcoming jungle stint. She joked: "I am here for a holiday," before getting into a car, where she will likely be taken to her accommodation before calling the gruelling jungle camp home for the next few weeks.
But, she almost left the airport without her luggage as her driver then attempted to pull away with the boot open and her luggage outside but she screamed for him to stop and thankfully he obliged. Asked if she had been camping before, she said: "I don't know what you mean, what's camping?" And, when told it had been raining, she said: "That's cool I came for the rain."
Asked if she would be scared of things like spiders and snakes, she replied: "I just want to get to my car. Thank you so much."
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