After months of keeping her girlfriend’s idenтιтy under wraps, GK Barry is finally opening up about their relationship and even brought a subtle reminder of her into the I’m a Celeb camp.
The TikTok star, 25, is dating Lioness, Ella Rutherford, and a sweet dedication to the Ipswitch football star, 24, on GK Barry’s nails can be revealed as she has a tiny white E on the fingernail where a wedding ring would go.
Before heading into the Jungle, GK Barry, whose real name is Grace Keeling, got a set of French-tipped nails and asked the manicurist to paint an E for Ella on them.
It comes after she opened up about their relationship with her I’m A Celebrity campmates on Tuesday night’s episode.
The social media star said: ‘Obviously online I’d been like I’d slept with girls or whatever as well, but I’d only dated men.
‘It was by accident I found Ella, through a mutual friend and then I really liked her the first day I met her but I’d never told my parents.
GK Barry has revealed a sweet dedication to her girlfriend Ella Rutherford, after opening up about their relationship in the I’m A Celebrity camp
‘I’d mentioned, ‘Oh I’m just going to see my friend Ella’ or ‘I’m staying round Ella’s’ so they’d heard her name.’
After her parents visited London from Cambridge and saw them together, they asked who Ella was and Grace confessed: ‘Oh. she’s my girlfriend’. They just love her, they never had an issue with it.’
She added: ‘To be fair I feel like the closet may have been made of glᴀss. But they’ve always said whoever you end up with we do not care, boy or girl, we don’t care, as long as they’re not a d*ck.’
The Loose Women panelist had previously been in a long-term relationship with fellow TikTok sensation, Billy Hunt, who featured on her podcast, Saving Grace, and her social media pages.
The pair were introduced by Gogglebox’s Joe Baggs and speaking about how they met, Grace said: ‘So my version of events. Joe Baggs had a party. [Billy was] the only straight man there, [I] launched myself at him. It’s been history ever since.’
The pair broke up last year and Grace spoke on Young Filly’s about coming out as a lesbian, she said: ‘I feel like I went very wrong with men.
‘I don’t like men anymore. I will never go back to a man. God forbid.
‘Yeah, I just love it. I just love it. I feel like I’ve got spring in my step. I feel like I’m glowing. It’s the lesbian glow. I’ve got it. And yeah, that’s my life update.’
Before heading into the Jungle, GK Barry, whose real name is Grace Keeling, got a set of French-tipped nails and asked the manicurist to paint an E for Ella on them
It comes after Grace opened up about their relationship with her I’m A Celebrity campmates on Tuesday night’s episode
As Grace prepared to dive into the gruesome jungle, Ella shared a sweet Instagram post of the two cuddling up together. She captioned the picture ‘My little jungle babe❤️ LFG x’
As the first episode debuted last night, the footballer, who plays for Ipswich Town, took to Instagram to share a snapsH๏τ of her tuning into the show. She captioned the post: ‘She’s making us all so proud.’
Though Grace initially kept their romance a secret, referring to Ella as ‘eyelashes’ on her podcast, Saving Grace, it wasn’t long before the TikTok born TV star revealed the idenтιтy of her partner.
Grace first sH๏τ to fame on TikTok during the first Covid-19 lockdown when she started making TikToks about her daily life while studying film at Nottingham Trent University.
Before entering the jungle, GK admitted the thing she would miss most outside the jungle would be her girlfriend.
‘When you are missing home and all you want is your comfort people, then that will be hard if they are not there,’ she confessed.
