Watch awkward moment I’m A Celeb’s Joel Dommett makes shock joke about his leaked sex tape on Unpacked
TV presenter Joel Dommett has brought up a cringeworthy moment from his past as made a crude joke on TV.
Comedian Joel Dommett, who presents ITV‘s I‘m A Celebrity! UNPACKED cracked a joke to viewers about the latest Bushtucker challenge, before quickly quipping about his sex tape incident from eight years ago.
Welcoming viewers back to the spin off of the main show, Joel said: “Welcome back to UNPACKED everybody!
“The Face Invaders. trial was so good tonight. We’ve had so many messages about celebrities screwing up their faces and moaning whilst making suggestive hand motions – but enough about my online content!”
As his co-stars laughed at the sex tape reference, but it’s referring to a moment that was previously pretty raw for Joel.
Joel, who is now married to wife Hannah Cooper and they share one child, faced a difficult time right before he joined I’m A Celebrity in 2016.
In the past Joel has opened up about the sex tape incident, including during his time in the jungle on I’m A Celebrity.
Speaking with his campmates about life in the public eye, the funnyman said the embarrassing incident could have happened to anyone.
Wayne Bridge asked Joel if he was concerned about the the attention he’ll receive when he leaves the jungle but Joel wasn’t worried.
He said: “We’re just all human beings and sometimes you just happen to get caught masturbating on the internet!”
Joel previously spoke to his campmates about the sex tape leak and admitted he was “catfished” by a girl he had been chatting to online a few years earlier.
He opened up to camp mates as he described what happened: “I was catfished.
“Basically someone messaged me online and after a while she said did you want SKYPE sex, so I was like yes, I was so naive.”
He added: “I messaged a few weeks later and she didn’t reply and then a few years later the video was released online, it was released about a week before I came in here.”
Opening up to the BBC in 2016, Joel explained that after he’d been speaking with ‘the girl’ online he was later added online.
He remembered: “Cut to two years later. I was added on Twitter by an account called ‘@CelebbustedUK’. In the biog it says, ‘If we follow you, we have naked pictures of you’.
“‘Why would anyone have naked pictures of me?’, I thought.”
Despite the awkwardness of a sex tape being released, Joel’s career hasn’t been impacted.
In fact after his time in the jungle on I’m A Celebrity, Joel has gone on to present The Masked Singer as well as carrying on his stand up comedy.
He now also presents the spin off for I’m A Celebrity, discussing viewer reactions and getting the first interviews with celebrities after they leave the jungle.