First Dates star hits out at Nella Rose after her shocking outburst at Fred Sirieix
FIRST Dates star Cici Coleman has backed her old ‘boss’ Fred Sirieix following his I’m A Celeb bust-up with Nella Rose.
The show waitress took to Instagram last night and confirmed her support for Fred, following a row with the YouTube influencer.
Cici, 37, shared a photo of Fred following the row with Nella and said: “#teambossman #teamfred.”
What started off as an innocent conversation over the campfire soon turned into the most bitter row of the series, as Nella accused Fred of offending her and asked him: “Are you stupid?”
Nella explained: “So yesterday, when I wanted to burn fat that you were going to throw away anyways, it’s not even something that we needed to survive in camp.
“You turned around to me, with an attitude and said, ‘You know I could be your dad, right?’
“To me, I don’t care how you said it to me, it’s disrespectful and I don’t want to talk to you.
“I don’t want to be around you. I only allow people to disrespect me once. You hurt my feelings. I was very upset… you keep trying to speak to me when I don’t want to speak to you.
She added: “I would rather stay away from you, I don’t want to eat your food, I don’t want to talk to you. We can just live, you live on that side, I live on this side.”
An apologetic Fred was keen to make things right after he realised his previous blunder.
He replied: “I am so sorry. Can I just say? First of all, I am sorry I’ve offended you. I am unaware that you felt offended.
“I am unaware that what I said would lead to this conversation, I only said that in a way because I am older than you, I am 51 and you’re 26.”
Nella then exploded as she exclaimed: “I’m not stupid, you’re not going to little girl me, you’re not.”
“Nella, it wasn’t like that at all,” Fred interjected.
“Either I made a mistake and I said something and I offended you, I’m really sorry. I’m really sorry you feel like this.”
Nella doubled down on her comments during a private chat in the Bush Telegraph, but as she spoke, I’m A Celebrity aired the clip of Fred and Nella’s conversation around the camp fire.
It appeared to show that Fred hadn’t made the remark to patronise her but had commented on his own age and being “old” after another campmate said he “was still young”.
Fred’s fiancée has since broken her silence after also tuning in to the uncomfortable scenes.