I'm A Celeb's Matty Lee hits out at ITV show as he swipes bosses 'treat stars like crap'

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Matty Lee claims I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! stars are "treated like crap" by show bosses in the production process.The Olympic diver, who shot to fame as Tom Daley's professional partner before appearing on the 2021 series of the ITV reality show, sat down with Daily Star Online to discuss his time in Gwrych Castle - and it isn't as exciting as it looks.Going into the series was a shock for the Olympic gold medal winner, as he explained: "I’m an athlete, I’m not a TV person, so I didn’t know what to expect at all."One thing that shocked me was how controlled it is, more than I thought it would be.

It is a TV show at the end of the day, if we’re all sat there doing nothing they would say over the tannoy, 'Well do something!'"No, they wouldn’t actually say it like that, but they’re in control.

It’s like The Truman Show, they are fully in control really."He added: "That came as a shock to me because I didn’t know how it was actually run and stuff.

Obviously conversations and how I acted were very much me - I was never prompted to ask a certain question or have a certain conversation."But that control from show bosses soon led to unhappiness within the camp, with Matty insisting he and his campmates were "treated like crap".He went on: "When you go to a [Bushtucker] Trial or challenge - it was really annoying - if I went with Frankie and Danny, we’d probably just want to chat while we were waiting, because they need to set up the studio and make sure Ant and Dec are ready."And we’d be held in separate Portakabins because they didn’t want relationships getting built or conversations happening off camera."It makes sense, I get it, but you just don’t think of that.