‘A lot of people do think you’re gay’: Justin Lacko and Richard Reid clash on I’m A Celeb

An ugly clash has erupted on I’m A Celebrity after one contestant raised Justin Lacko’s sexuality during a campsite chat.

An ugly clash has erupted on I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! after Richard Reid raised Justin Lacko’s sexuality during a campsite chat.

During Tuesday night’s episode Lacko told Angie Kent and Reid that he no longer spoke to his grandmother after she told his mum that he was “in the closet”.

“My nana was telling my mum who I was,” Lacko said. “It’s like that’s my mum and my mum didn’t even stick up for me … (I thought) why didn’t you not stick up for me, do you think that?”

But the conversation took a turn for the worse when Reid decided to add his two cents and bluntly replied: “If you don’t mind my saying, a lot of people do think you’re gay.”

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Justin Lacko

“Great, yeah,” Lacko replied sarcastically while shooting daggers at Reid, as Kent all of sudden became very busy with her shoes.

“So what’s wrong with you, feel like your grandmother should have asked you directly if you were gay?” Reid asked.

“I absolutely feel like that she should of,” an agitated Lacko hit back.

But Reid continued to defend the Love Island contestant’s grandmother, arguing that “maybe she didn’t know how to talk about it”.

“She’s from another generation,” Reid said, ignoring Lacko’s protests. “So unless she’s done something else to wrong you I think that for her to ask the question, hang on, that other people have asked heaps of times. I really don’t see what the problem is unless you feel it was mean spirited.”

I would like to be excluded from this narrative: Kent right now

Reid refused to back down despite Lacko being visibly uncomfortable

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“I just feel that, like for me personally, the way that I’ve been brought up someone’s sexuality is none of your business, I don’t think it’s anyone’s business unless I choose to say it myself,” Lacko replied.

“Anyways I think I don’t want to talk about this anymore, because obviously I don’t think we are going to see eye to eye.”

Kent chastised Lacko for his unwillingness to talk further with Reid, saying: “You can’t back out of every conversation!”

But Lacko had clearly had enough, snapping back to Reid and Kent: “I don’t want feel like I’m sitting here and then I’m going to have two people disagreeing with me.”

“OK well, if you feel like we were trying to pressure you,” Reid added. “I was trying to put myself in your grandmother’s place.”

I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! airs Sunday to Thursday at 7.30pm on Network 10.