I’m A Celebrity star Vicky Pattison said she got the ick from one thing Meghan Markle did on her Netflix show.
Vicky, 37, was talking with co-host Angela Scanlon on their podcast ‘Get A Grip’, when they started discussing the Duchess of Sussex.
During one episode of her With Love, Meghan show, the former Suits actress corrects her friend Mindy Kaling for using her old surname, replying that she is now a Sussex and not a Markle.
Speaking about the little tete-a-tete, Vicky said: “When Meghan corrected Mindy Kaling. And I like that Mindy, I think she’s alright.
“So I was like, ‘Oh’. There’s no way I’m slapping my pal’s wrist on my Netflix series just for something like that. I really got the ick.”
Despite Meghan giving her the ick, Vicky added that she was initially supportive of Meghan and her husband Prince Harry taking a step back from the Royal Family. She said: “Harry’s obviously unhappy in his role in the Royal Family. If he wants to take a step back…
“He’s always been a bit rebellious, a bit rogue. I was actually all for them retreating off into the distance, bringing up their gorgeous little kids, being really happy.”
Vicky also added that she wasn’t sure if the release of a recent delivery room video, showing Meghan and Harry twerking, to mark Princess Lillibet’s fourth birthday had “done them any favours”. She concluded: “Ultimately, the general consensus is that it’s a bag of cringe on toast.”
Vicky’s comments come just days after she discussed the impact of PMDD (pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder) on her relationship with her husband Ercan Ramadan.
Speaking to Elizabeth Day on the How To Fail podcast, Vicky went into greater detail about how the condition affects her day to day.
She said: “It absolutely kills me that for a quarter of our life, I am not the person that he fell in love with, and not the person that he thought he was marrying.
“Because that is the reality, I’m not myself. I’m not recognisable at all. I could be screaming one second and sobbing the next, then completely disassociating, unable to be social, lost, afraid, whatever it is – however it’s manifesting itself that week.
“He’s had to learn to love that version of me as well. And that is really difficult. And that is not something I would ask of me worst enemy, let alone the man I love more than anything else in the world.”
Vicky added that she was proud of how her husband had responded to her PMDD, and that his attitude towards it is a “true testament” to the sort of person he is.
She explained: “It is a true testament to him and his character that he’s learned to understand it because not every man does. I found the one thing that helps is communication.
“So saying to him […] I’m coming into PMDD week. And he goes, ‘That’s okay. Like, we’ll just take it slow’.”
Vicky and Ercan have been married since August 2024, five years after they first met in 2019 through friends.
