Social media star GK Barry has the backing of a very well known X Factor duo ahead of her I'm A Celeb stint.
The content creator whose real name is Grace Keeling will tonight make her debut on ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! alongside the likes of WAG Coleen Rooney, singer Tulisa Contostavlos, dancer Oti Mabuse, singer Danny Jones and actor Alan Halsall. But while Grace, 24, may have a huge army of online followers, she is hoping to become a household name following her appearance Down Under.
But that hasn't stopped X Factor twins Jedward taking to social media and throwing their support behind the social media influencer who is known for her TikTok podcast. In a video shared with their 632,000 followers on X, formerly known as Twitter, the twins shared a throwback video of Grace alongside Love Island's Megan Barton-Hanson as she expressed her love for the duo.
A resurfaced tweet by Grace from November 2011 read: "@planetjedward Have a great time in the X-Factor house don't flirt to much coz' im you're girlfriend," when Barton-Hanson revealed she didn't expect Grace to be a fan of the pair, she responded: "No-one did but here we are, so that's good.
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Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)"I went around school with an I love Jedward totebag and an I love Jedward pencil case. Everyone was like 'weirdo' and used to throw stuff at me and I'd be like 'Yeah, I love them.'" Grace later confessed her social media passwords once even had a reference to Jedward. "Jedward are sexy, that's my password to this day, well it's gonna be changed now," she revealed.
The pair who auditioned for the show in 2009 have since shared their views on GK's upcoming jungle stay. They said: "GK Barry to win I'm a celeb! She's a Jepic Jedward fan and we can't wait to see her rock the jungle." Jedward's fans were also quick to throw their support behind Grace, with one writing: "That's so cool! Good luck to her."
"Haha aw, that's called well jedicated there," commented another. But GK's stint hasn't impressed everybody – former contestant Kim Woodburn shared her blistering take on the news with the Mirror. She told us: ""It's called I'm A Celebrity... so they must put celebrities in! I'm not downing someone that's starting out in the business, we've all got to start somewhere but we're not interested in a person we've never seen before doing trials.
"They're not an interest to us. When they had all the very well known people, I'd say 'I wonder', you want to see how a well known personality you've watched for years is going to cope when they're being terrified. When it's somebody unknown, you think 'I don't even know that person,' it's not because I'm downing unknown people – it is called I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! so can we please have celebrities, can we please have that? They can't afford it, they can't."
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