Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder claims I’m A Celebrity is fixed

Shaun Ryder clearly hasn’t quite come to terms with losing out to Stacey Solomon all those years ago.

The Happy Mondays singer has sensationally claimed that I’m A Celebrity is RIGGED, and the show’s top brass do their best to make sure their favourite eventually comes out on top.

“As far as I am concerned the game was rigged. I really do mean that. I was in a band and Stacey had a career,” he told the Nottingham Post when asked about his stint in the jungle back in 2010.

“Basically it was all mapped out for her to become a TV host which she then decided that she didn’t want to do.

“She decided that she wanted to do music and I am sure that if she was ever going to do music then Simon Cowell would have made sure that she did it. From day one I pretty much knew that Stacey was going to win that.”

The 54-year-old Mancunian also said that he never even wanted to appear on the ITV show in the first place – but he’s glad he did, because it’s actually dead easy. Whaaat?

“I didn’t want to go and I was kicking and screaming not to do it,” he said. “It was the record company, my girls and the missus that wanted me to do that. But I am glad that I did it. It has led to a lot of good things.

“I find it funny when people say that it was really hard. Life is much harder than that. You are starved of a bit of food, you go on a few walks and you have to eat a few bugs. It’s a piece of p***.”