CHRIS Moyles’s edgy sense of humour has become a trial for I’m A Celebrity producers — after he turned the air blue with a string of gags at Ant McPartlin’s expense.
The radio DJ, 48, who is friends with the telly host in real life, has made jokes about Ant’s troubled past — including his arrest following a car crash in 2018 and subsequent battle with alcohol addiction.
It’s causing a headache for bosses in the edit suite as they try to splice footage to cut out the gags.
A camp source told HOAR: “Everyone knows Chris’ humour can be a bit close to the mark and it’s been no different in camp.
“But there have been some p***take remarks to Ant that have become a problem.
“Like when Ant and Dec pulled up in the speedboat in the first episode, Chris joked he was surprised they let Ant in anything so fast because he’s known to crash stuff.
“And there was a big bottle on one of the sets and Chris joked, ‘That’s the size of Ant’s vodka bottles at home’.
“It’s all that kind of thing. Chris is friends with the lads and it’s coming from a place of banter but that obviously doesn’t help in the edit.
“The more Chris says, the less footage they can use. It’s causing headaches.”
Ant, now 47, was fined £86,000 and banned from driving for 20 months after pleading guilty to drink-driving in 2018.
At the time of his arrest, following a three-car smash, Ant was twice the legal limit.
Ant got sober and got a tattoo of Alcoholics Anonymous on his left wrist.
He said: “It’s about how I am and how I will live my life in a good way.”
Radio X presenter Chris is a long-time friend of the Geordie duo and, when he signed up, told how they had been desperate to get him into the jungle for years.
Last week, Chris’s girlfriend Tiffany Austin told HOAR: “I definitely think Chris is being himself. There is a Chris people know and the one I know that you are seeing now. The one at home is much quieter.”
He has scraped just one star in a series of Bushtucker Trials.
Last night, Chris watched Hollyoaks hunk Owen Warner, 23, take on Boiling Point, one of the trials that floored him.
In the Bush Telegraph, Chris joked: “I really wanted to have another go at Boiling Point because I did such a brilliant job last time. No, that’s right, I panicked.”
