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24th Nov 2019

Nadine Coyle’s Gillian McKeith impression on I’m A Celeb last night was top notch

Jade Hayden

Drag her.

Where were you when Gillian McKeith tried to fool the nation in 2010?

The presenter was taking part in that year’s instalment of I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here, when she decided to fake fainting in order to get out of participating in a bushtucker trial.

It was an iconic moment of television, and if you don’t remember it, you can watch it below.

All caught up? Good.

Nine years may have passed since McKeith’s dire attempt to get out of doing the thing she had literally been paid to do, but people haven’t forgotten.

Some say they never will – not if Nadine Coyle has anything to do with it anyway.

The Girls Aloud singer decided to take us all on a little journey through time last night when she took the piss out of McKeith after being chosen to do her own trial.

After being told she would have to hold live cockroaches in her mouth for 60 seconds, she turned to Ant and Dec and said: “What did Gillian McKeith do? She just went like that” – and then pretended to fall over.

An icon, through and through.

Whether Nadine did or did not succeed in her task is really not all that important considering she’s already given us the most incredible moment of the series so far.

Thanks, girl. You’re doing us proud.

This comes after Dec recently admitted that McKeith was actually the most frustrating contestant they’ve ever had on the show.

Because of – you guessed it – her unwillingness to participate.

“Gillian McKeith not doing trials was frustrating at the time but that was her journey on the show,” he told The Sun.

“At the time when you’re there and you’re trying to get her to do it and she says no, you feel sorry for all the people that have put so much effort into producing the trials and making them so spectacular.”

I’m A Celeb continues tonight at 9pm on Virgin Media One.