GK Barry choked back tears as she had an emotional reunion with her mother, Loretta Bruce, after leaving I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
The influencer – real name Grace Keeling – was rescued from the jungle alongside Coronation Street actor Alan Halsall during Friday’s episode of the ITV show.
GK gave her mother a huge hug when she arrived at the hotel in Surfer’s Paradise, Australia.
The fresh-faced 25-year-old woman, who arrived in a car with her friend, footballer Ella Rutherford, looked elated as she ran into Loretta’s arms and covered her face with her hands as she cried.
Earlier in Friday’s episode, Loretta surprised the TikTok star in the jungle and told her daughter she was doing “so well.”
GK Barry had a tearful reunion with her mother Loretta after leaving I’m A Celebrity
The TikTok star burst into tears as she gave her mother a big hug
The 25-year-old was greeted by her mother when she arrived at her hotel in Surfer’s Paradise, Australia
Loretta also praised GK’s friendship with campmate Rev. Richard Coles, calling him a “calming influence.”
She then recalled one of the duo’s candid conversations and joked, “Did you really have to talk about scissors?” Everyone knows that now!’
As Loretta left, GK begged her mother to give her friend Ella a ‘snog’, with hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly later revealing the footballer was waiting for her on the bridge.
The influencer had a tearful reunion with Ella on the famous bridge as she was evicted.
She told presenters Ant and Dec about her experience in the jungle: ‘I can’t believe I’ve been looking like this on national television for several days.
‘It was worse than I expected, I thought it would just be tanning and having fun.
“That was hell. I wouldn’t put my worst enemy through that, but the people there were great so that made it great.”
She added: ‘I feel so much more comfortable in myself, being myself, I feel like I found myself in Thailand, a country like that. That will take a week.’
She arrived in a car with her footballer girlfriend, Ella Rutherford
Loretta surprised GK in the jungle before her daughter was deported
GK was also greeted by her former campmates Maura Higgins and Dean McCullough
Discussing her unlikely bond with Richard, she said: “I usually eat when I’m bored, so those things were hard, until Richard came in and then I was never bored.
“I’m a dirty person and when he came in I thought we weren’t going to click here. But he’s dirtier than me. I was shocked that we got along so well, he’s my favorite person.
“He thinks he can save me and I think I can save him, it’s a two-way system. He takes me to the opera, I take him to roam.’
She continued, “The first thing I do is give Ella a big kiss and eat a bacon sandwich.”
Later on spin-off show Unpacked, she told host and former show winner Sam Thompson: “I would never do it again, but this was one of the best experiences. It was like a family in there. Pastor Richard is my husband, we’re going to brunch. I’m so excited.
‘From now on I’m going to spend all my time with him and my madam. You have to put me in a minivan with that man.
‘I learned from him the jargon ‘praise be’ and that he showers naked, his little minister is gone. I was the easiest to liquidate, I was swearing at the crew all day long.’
She previously told Richard that she was religious, saying that when she was younger she went to a religious camp where men told her not to have sex until she was married.
Evicted star Barry McGuigan gave the vlogger a huge hug
Melvin Odoom seemed thrilled to be reunited with his former campmate
GK admitted her time in the jungle was “hell” but it helped rebuild her confidence
She had an emotional reunion with friend Ella on the famous bridge after being kicked out
Grace then said that even at age 13, she thought, “Well, that’s not going to happen.” I see my future and it means rallying now.”
Richard asked Grace what scissoring is, which she wouldn’t explain to him in detail, but did tell him it was something lesbians do.
He then joked about the “hissing scissor sisterhood,” and the pair burst out laughing.
GK admitted in the Bush Telegraph: ‘I came into this jungle perhaps not knowing who I would associate with here or who I would be close to, and never in a million years if you told me I could do the best get along with a Reverend, I would have believed you.
“But he’s honest…I think he might be my favorite person here.”