KELLY Brook could be the butt of Ant and Dec’s jokes on I’m A Celebrity as their 16-year “feud” threatens to come to a head.
The 45-year-old former glamour model accused the TV duo of “getting her sacked” as a judge on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009.
Now telly insiders believe the drama could rear its head again as Ant and Dec deliver their digs in Australia.
An insider said: “There’s no way Ant and Dec will shy away from making jokes about Kelly with their awkward history.
“A huge part of their charm is how they manage to mock the stars, but without taking it too far.
“The jokes will be near the bone but it’s all in good jest and designed to make everyone laugh. Kelly’s totally up for it.
“She knows it’s part and parcel of the gig.”
BGT boss Simon Cowell blamed Kelly’s exit — six days into her new job — on the failure of the show’s new four-judge format.
But Kelly furiously blasted the Geordie duo for “ruining her career”.
Hosts Ant and Dec gave a scathing account of Kelly’s first day on the show, detailing the humiliating question she asked them in front of Simon.
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Dec wrote in their autobiography: “Kelly looked nervous, so I told her it was going to be great fun and to just relax and enjoy it.
She nodded, then looked at me and said, ‘And what do you do on the show?’
“I looked at Simon, he turned to Kelly and said, ‘Kelly, you have seen the show, haven’t you?’ To which she replied, ‘Yeah — well, bits’.”
Speaking after losing the job, Kelly said: “The people at ITV were telling me that I had upset Ant and Dec. “I would love to have stayed on the show.
“I really felt it was working out. Ant and Dec had never been anything but pleasant to my face but, clearly, they didn’t want me on the show.
“Their egos are such that they were saying, ‘How dare she think she can come on to our show?’, and since then they’ve been very vocal about their displeasure at me being there.”
They’re now set to work together again for the first time after Kelly accepted a high six-figure deal to do the show.
Awkwardly, she claimed back in 2018 that she’d NEVER do I’m A Celebrity – as she took a brutal swipe at Ant and Dec’s show.
“I can just think of a million things I’d rather do. I’d rather go and work in my local pub,” she said at the time.
“Even if I had a huge tax bill and I had to pay it really urgently, I still wouldn’t do it.
“I know that they offer them so much money, so I understand why they do it, but when you’re eating stuff like that on the telly, where do you go from there?
“It’s kind of like the beginning of the end in my opinion!”
TV sources close to Kelly insist the fallout is “one of those myths that’s been repeated for years but was never true”.
