I'm A Celebrity winner faces charges of animal cruelty
source: http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/im-a-celebrity/im-a-celebrity-gino-dacampo-charged-with-animal-...
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One minute, he's king of the jungle, the next he's facing charges of animal cruelty (smelt a reality TV curse coming)
Chef/King of the Jungle Gino D'Acampo along with Actor Stuart Manning was charged for killing a rat and cooking it for fellow contestants. The Australian RSPCA has also quizzed ITV producers on this. ITV says “Australian RSPCA are currently looking into an incident in which a rat was killed in the camp.” Both contestants will be on trial on the 3rd February (they may face 3 years in prison), the producers may also face charges.
Sources:
http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/im-a-celebrity/im-a-celebrity-gino-dacampo-charged-...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8397691.stm
Chef/King of the Jungle Gino D'Acampo along with Actor Stuart Manning was charged for killing a rat and cooking it for fellow contestants. The Australian RSPCA has also quizzed ITV producers on this. ITV says “Australian RSPCA are currently looking into an incident in which a rat was killed in the camp.” Both contestants will be on trial on the 3rd February (they may face 3 years in prison), the producers may also face charges.
Sources:
http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/im-a-celebrity/im-a-celebrity-gino-dacampo-charged-...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8397691.stm
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- Entertainment, Veganism, Television
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- Reality TV, animal cruelty, ITV, Rats, 3 more
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cynker
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oh my god what load of steaming poo - if anyone in the rspca involved eats meat they need to shut up and stop being hypocrites
- 2 years ago
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cynker
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Mike_Strafford
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aren't rats vermin? it sounds pretty unfair to me
- 2 years ago
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Mike_Strafford
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ironicbliss
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Wait until the Insect Protection League gets news of this!
- 2 years ago
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ironicbliss
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Phoenix234
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there in the bloody jungle and there not allowed to kill animals?
thats like saying all of the people who live off the land are murderers - 2 years ago
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Phoenix234
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cadex
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Phoenix234:
it's a TV show. They are not being starved to a point where they HAVE to kill animals to eat them. They chose to kill an animal that they didn't have to kill. It wasn't necessary so it was cruelty.
- 2 years ago
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cadex
