Ant McPartlin slams “passive aggressive” Alan Halsall after I'm a Celeb clash with Dean McCullough

TV star Ant McPartlin has accused Alan Halsall of being 'passive aggressive' in his clash with Dean McCullough in I’m a Celeb.

BBC Radio 1 presenter Dean had a heated exchange with the Coronation Street star in the programme over how the actor had handled waking him up, reports The Mirror.

Ant addressed the row on his and Dec’s Instagram Live. Dec said: “Can we talk about the first little bit of tension in the camp,” to which Ant replied: “What would you have done, would you have kicked off? Alan was kind of OK about it, but he had a little bit of passive aggressiveness back as well, didn’t he?”

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But Ant added of Dean’s outburst: “I wouldn’t stand for any of that… I would be like ‘shut-up’.”

Dean had taken a nap but was later awoken by camp leader Alan as he needed to do his chore of collecting firewood alongside Loose Women panellist Jane Moore.

After a sleepy Dean hardly stirred, soap star Alan asked him: "You don't fancy it? No?" Alan then went to help out Jane himself as camp rules state she was not allowed to do it by herself.

Northern Irish presenter Dean followed afterwards and told him Alan could "go back now".

The actor told him: "I was trying to wake you up as soft as I could," to which Dean replied: "Listen to me. If you're going to wake me up, you need to give me a minute, alright?

"It takes me a couple of minutes for my contact lenses to get back working again, all right?

"So you don't need to turn around to me and say: 'Do you not fancy it?' OK? And then turn around and walk away."

Dean then repeatedly asked Alan to "listen" to him, with the later explaining: "I didn't say it how you think I meant it, but if you took it that way, then I apologise."

The actor confirmed he was not trying to have a dig at the radio DJ, to which Dean said he understood but that he felt he "didn't get a chance to respond".

Dean later said in the Bush Telegraph: "I opened my eyes and wee Tyrone from Coronation Street is like: 'Come on, mate, you need to go down to the bottom of the creek.'

"He didn't even give me a chance to say yes or no because he went: 'You don't fancy it? No?' and ran. He was being a real camp leader.

"I was like: 'Whoa, whoa, whoa don't dig me out like that.' And I had to say to him: 'If you're going to say: 'Don't fancy it?' - give me a chance'.

"Because, of course, I fancy it. I want to help Jane. I went straight down and helped her." Dean was later seen apologising to Jane before joining her in carrying the wood for the campfire.

In his own Bush Telegraph moment, Alan said: "It was a flippant comment, I'm sorry if you took it in the wrong way. Wasn't actually meant like that, it was just a bit of a joke.

"If I was asleep and you woke me up, I won't fancy it either."