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Social media star is one of the names on the for the 2024 series and she has just touched down in Australia. Only 25 years old, the social media star has built a career in the spotlight after rocketing to fame on TikTok by documenting her daily life as a student at Nottingham Trent University. The star has branched out from social media as she also appears on ITV daytime chat show as a guest panellist since this summer in August, and now looks to be adding reality television to her showbiz CV.
As a rising name in the showbiz industry, GK Barry had also been — although the scheduling of the show clashes with I'm a Celebrity which is filmed in Australia with at the helm. Professionally she has become known as GK Barry but her real name is Grace Eleanor Keeling. She made history as the youngest ever panellist on Loose Women earlier this year, and has 498,000 subscribers on YouTube, 852,000 followers on Instagram, and 3.
6 million on TikTok. The social media star is also an ambassador for Ann Summers and PrettyLittleThing. The influencer is in a relationship with England footballer Ella Rutherford and she told the Loose Women panel that they moved in after the first date.
She's perhaps best known for her Saving Grace podcast that is billed as a "rollercoaster of emotions" and her own "wild tales of university escapades to laugh-out-loud moments". As well as talking about her own life, she interviews celebrity guests including Alan Carr who made a recent appearance. It's the same podcast where she recently faced a backlash.
Off the back of the rumours GK Barry is tipped for the I'm a Celebrity jungle, the influencer has come under fire for a recent episode of her podcast, featuring OnlyFans creator Bonnie Blue. The 25-year-old Brit is an adult content creator who lives in Australia. Blue recently made headlines for her claims of advertising sex to students in university areas around the world, which she then reportedly films and uses as content on her adult platforms, including OnlyFans.
Blue is said to check ID and asks the men to sign consent forms before sharing the videos. In Australia, that a Change.org petition launched to deport the content creator from the country, had gained over 10,000 signatures.
Released on 23 October, the Saving Grace podcast and YouTube video featuring Blue — titled ' — has led to some criticising GK Barry for not challenging her guest for targeting "schoolies" (18-19 year olds) for her adult videos, and for platforming harmful behaviour. One comment on YouTube says "This needs to be taken down. This is absolutely grim", while another called her guest "a disgrace to society and such a bad influence on young girls".
Another comment defended Barry saying “You’ve only got to look at Grace’s body language to tell she doesn’t agree with what this woman says and does." But the person also adds, “Shame she didn’t challenge her a bit more”, while another said: “You can tell Grace is uncomfortable at times." Blue says on the podcast that Sky News had called her behaviour "disgusting" GK Barry, who doesn't follow this comment up, takes a different approach by asking her questions about her "favourite position", the videos that do well and the editing process.
Barry does ask a question around STIs and condoms. Since the backlash online, she has deleted her social media promotion around the podcast but the show is still available to watch and listen to as of the 7 November. , Blue said: “The backlash Grace got should have been aimed at me.
Viewers were annoyed she gave me a platform, but in terms of her interview and style, it wasn’t an interview. It was never meant to be an interrogation.” When challenged about being "a predator", Blue responded: “They’re 18 and consenting.
It’s their bodies. They choose to contact me. If they then come, I’m not forcing them.
If I was forcing them off the street, dragging them up, then yeah, call me a predator, but it’s not the case.” Yahoo has reached out to GK Barry and ITV's representatives for further comment..
