Nigel Farage was slammed by ITV’s top boss in front of a celebrity-filled audience, it has emerged.
Managing director Kevin Lygo used a crude gesture when referring to the GB News presenter.
The ITV boss spoke to a celeb-packed crowd, including Susanne Reid, Davina McCall and Lorraine Kelly, at the broadcaster’s Palooza event earlier this week.
Lygo was accompanied on stage by a sign language interpreter. He said: “Thank you to the signer – I don’t know any sign language, I just know the sign for Nigel Farage.”
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The ITV boss then made a rude gesture with his hand, moving it from side to side.
He joked: “Don’t worry, he knows he has to come home from Australia in a dinghy.”
An attendee told The Sun: “Lygo was joking but really went in on Farage and made him the butt of all the jokes.
“There were a few gasps from the crowd at how crass he was being but it was funny. It’s mad that ITV have paid so much for someone they just want to mock.
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“Surely Nigel is having the last laugh with his new bank balance.”
Farage is the highest paid I’m A Celebrity star ever, with a reported paycheck of £1.5million.
The former politician has been in the jungle for a week now and has already done a variety of challenges.
Last night, Farage was finally picked for another Bush Tucker Trial, as he was made to participate in a shocking drinking challenge.
The GB News host was given six gag-worthy concoctions to down in the jungle as he and former champion boxer Tony Bellew took part in “Down Your Sorrows”.
He was overjoyed to be taking part in the trial, after not being voted for the previous few challenges.
Earlier this week, Farage let slip that he was hoping to take part in as many Bush Tucker Trials as possible.
Speaking to food critic Grace Dent during Tuesday’s episode of the show, he explained he wanted to do more trials in order to reach “a new audience”.
“If you do the challenges, it’s 25 per cent of the airtime. I’m looking at reaching a whole new audience,” he told his campmate.
