I’M A Celebrity’s Dean McCullough faced allegations of bullying BBC Radio One production staff – before being “forced off” his afternoon show.
The DJ was moved from 1pm until 3.30pm with his co-host Vicky Hawkesworth to the graveyard shift as the host of Early Breakfast in February this year.
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It came after producers refused to work with the 32-year-old, making his job on the afternoon slot “untenable”.
A Radio 1 source told MailOnline: “Quite a few people who worked with Dean were really unhappy – and some of them made it very clear with bosses.
“They accused him of being a bully to staff, and they just didn’t want to keep working with him any longer.
“To be honest by the end it was just chaos – there were cover presenters drafted in and producers moved around to try to keep things on track but it became untenable.”
His former co-host Vicky now presents on weekends, while Dean is based in the Manchester building instead of BBC’s London HQ.
A BBC spokesman said: “We don’t comment on individuals but we take any allegations of inappropriate behaviour very seriously and the BBC has robust processes in place to investigate them thoroughly.”