I’m A Celebrity star Jack Maynard’s future on show is in doubt after gay-slur and n-word shame is exposed
I’M A Celebrity star Jack Maynard was forced to apologise last night for racist and homophobic slurs.
The YouTube sensation, 22, said he wanted to “do the internet proud” as he entered the ITV reality show.
But The Sun can reveal that on his official Twitter account he casually used the N-word and branded other users “retarded” and “f****ts”.
In tweets dating back up to six years Jack, followed by 650,000 impressionable young fans, mocked gay men, called his friends the racist term and laughed at people with facial disfigurements.
In December 2012, he replied to two people using the phrase “retarded f****t”.
In another post in February 2013, he shot back at one critic: “hahaha shutup you f****t... By the way who hit you with a shovel?”
In one racist tweet, posted online in June 2011, he said he was “At alices with my n****s!” He also repeatedly calls people “retards”.
In one post he tweeted pics of people with deformities with comments “in his prime” and “Ahahahaha! Sooo funny!” On one image of a black man with bulging eyes he added: “looking greatttt!!”
As the ITV show launched to millions, Jack admitted the words he used were “inflammatory” and “insulting”.
A spokeswoman for the vlogger said: “Jack is ashamed of these tweets, many were deleted a long time ago.
Jack Maynard posts racist slurs on Twitter account
"He would never use that language now and realises this kind of retaliatory, inflammatory, insulting language is completely unacceptable.”
An ITV spokeswoman said: “Jack has issued a full apology and has deleted the tweets that he sent.”
Josh Rivers, the editor of magazine Gay Times, was sacked last week for offensive tweets mocking gay people, homeless people and disabled children.
