Byline: Grant Hodgson; Katie Hind
Bedat & Co Replica I'M A Celebrity winner Gino D'Acampo left viewers fuming yesterday - after admitting he cheated.
The TV chef, 34, revealed he broke strict rules by smuggling a stash of salt, sugar, tea bags and coffee into the jungle. The goodies were craftily hidden in his shoes and his luxury item, a pillow.
An insider on the ITV1 show said they received a stream of complaints that Gino used his secret supplies unfairly to make him popular in the camp.
One viewer writing on an internet forum blasted: "Gino was fake. He cheated. Kim Woodburn's the true winner."
And glamour girl Jordan, who famously walked Fake Hermes Handbags out on the show, was said to be "livid" with the Italian hunk. He yelled at her for failing to pick salt as her luxury item - when he had some all along. Gino con-fessed on ITV2 early yesterday: "My luxury was a pillow, which is very stuffable. So I stuffed it with a lot of salt, sugar, four different teas, ten sachets of coffee.
"I had it in my shoes as well. I thought, 'If the security guys catch the stuff in the pillow, I still have the stuff in the shoes.
"I never used a single salt sachet for myself. I used to pass it to Stuart Manning and he put it in the food.
"It was funny. Everybody said, 'This tastes like it's got salt in it'. I would say, 'Well, when you caramelize potato the
embroidered patches natural sugar and salt comes out of it'."
The ITV source said: "Viewers who voted throughout the show are furious. They're disappointed in Gino. They feel he wasn't honest. They feel duped."
And a friend of Jordan, 31, told The People: "She's miffed, to say the very least." After Friday's win Gino was reunited with wife Jenny and sons Rocco, four, and Luciano, seven.
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