Janet Street-Porter defends I’m a Celebrity’s Nella Rose after Fred Sirieix clash

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Rose, whose father died in 2020, eventually declared that as a result of Sirieix’s “disrespect”, she was no longer interested in building a friendship with him. open image in gallery Janet Street-Porter on Loose Women “I can see that what he said to her could’ve offended her and also, looking at her back story, her parents came from the Congo, they went to Belgium, both of her parents died within a few months of each other…” After Moore chimed in by saying that Rose’s family circumstances are not Sirieix’s fault, Street-Porter concurred while adding that the context of her life “will inform how she reacts to him”. open image in gallery Nella Rose on ‘I’m a Celebrity’ “I would hate to see, as a result of this, that she gets voted out of that camp,” Street-Porter explained. “I’m not saying that in a patronising way, I think she has a voice that other people don’t have and I find that Fred is more of the same, frankly.” On Wednesday’s episode of I’m a Celebrity, Rose questioned Brexit pioneer Nigel Farage over his policies and beliefs regarding immigration.