We were thrilled when Gogglebox star Scarlett Moffatt won I’m A Celebrity last year.
She was funny and nice and gave good TV, so thoroughly deserved her success.
But little did we know that her triumph would set off a chain of events that would leave the viewing public devastated.
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No sooner had she been crowned Queen Of The Jungle than TV producers were falling over themselves to offer Scarlett TV shows a-go-go.
Not only did she land a backstage reporting slot at the NTAs in January, she was also offered a role on the next series of Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway and a presenting gig on Channel 4’s revamp of Streetmate.
But while Scarlett is enjoying all the great opportunities that have come her way, those around are are suffering.
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Last month, it was reported that Scarlett had split from her gorgeous boyfriend Luke Crodden because she wanted to focus on her career, while today it emerges that her mum and dad Betty and Mark have been ditched from the new series of Gogglebox.
According to reports, the couple who live in Bishop Auckland, Co Durham, have been let go because of Scarlett’s burgeoning fame.
A spokeswoman for the series that returns this Friday said: “The Moffatt family will not be appearing in this series.”
“The whole premise of Gogglebox is normal people commenting on the TV,” a handy TV insider told the Sunday People. “Scarlett is now a celebrity in her own right so it made sense she wouldn’t continue.
“She and her parents came as a package. It wouldn’t work so well without all three of them.”
Betty and Mark didn’t appear in the last series of Gogglebox because they had flown out to Australia to support Scarlett while she was in the jungle and hinted at the time that their future on the show depended on Channel 4.