MATTY Lee hit out at Naughty Boy and Danny Miller after they criticised his rice cooking during last night’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
The 23-year-old Olympian was assigned as camp chef alongside Corrie’s Simon Gregson, 47, after Louise Minchin, 53, was voted as the new leader.
And in light of the change of camp duties, Naughty Boy, who had previously been camp cook, criticised Matty’s rice cooking with Danny in agreement.
Speaking to her campmates, Louise said: “I love the swapping of jobs as everything gets better, doesn’t it?”
However, Matty admitted: “I don’t know if the cheffing gets better!” which left Louise asking: “Oh Matty, are you not enjoying your own cooking?”
Looking downcast, Matty said: “No, it’s just different…”
Despite the sports star’s clear stress over his cooking duties, Naughty Boy criticised how Matty prepared the rice and claimed it was “mushy”.
The producer said: “I don’t enjoy the rice now as much as I used to.
“That’s not because I was cooking it, it’s just because of the way it has been cooked. It’s a bit mushy and a bit over watered.”
Adding flames to the fire, former Emmerdale star Danny Miller agreed and said: “I do agree with him because sometimes when it’s over watered, it’s just, you can taste the blandness in it.
“But when it’s fried with the oil… I really like it, but it’s personal preference.”
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Speaking in the Bush Telegraph, a frustrated Matty shared: “Everyone has the right to have their own opinion but it’s so God damn annoying when you’re cooking.
“People will be like: ‘Oh, I like my rice this way, I like my rice that way,’ I’m like: ‘Ah!’
“I struggle because I’m just like look, I’m trying to please, I’m not trying to make it not nice!”
Back in camp, Snoochie Shy said: “I really liked rice pudding!” to which Naughty Boy cuttingly quipped: “What you called rice pudding, I call over watered rice.”
It’s not the first time Naughty Boy has passed comment on the cooking, having sounded off with Frankie Bridge over her cooking methods at the beginning of the series.
She broke down in tears as she complained to Snoochie about getting involved in a confrontation over rice.
The music producer, 36, was one of the five celebrities who moved into Gwrych Castle after previously being banished to The Clink.
Main Camp had been using their rice rations to create a kind of sticky pudding but the music man – real name Shahid Khan – hated their approach.
So when Frankie, 32, argued that was just how Main Camp liked to prepare rice, Naughty Boy kicked off.
Naughty Boy then had a second kitchen showdown with Kadeena Cox after she and Arlene Phillips got the camp some oxtail.
Naughty Boy told the Paralympian to chill while he prepared the meat, but she started to give him tips.
He said: “Kadeena please, I’m just working it out.”
Then he said to Snoochie Shy, 29: “I’ve never cut oxtail. Before I’ve even got into it Kadeena’s telling me, ‘Naughty you need to…’”
Kadeena, 30, interrupted: “If he’s going to moan about it, just say it to me. I was just trying to help.”
The music man replied: “The thing is, before I’ve even cut it, you’re telling me what to do.”
And the athlete said: “I was just letting you know there was a bone that was going to be hard to get through. I’m cool not helping, I was just like, whatever…”
