Deni Hines has lashed out at the social media reaction to her time on I'm a Celebrity, in which she left the show after declaring she desperately needed to use a proper toilet.
By JIMMY BRIGGS, SHOWBUSINESS REPORTER
Published: 04:40 EDT, 28 January 2026 | Updated: 14:29 EDT, 28 January 2026
Deni Hines has lashed out at the social media reaction to her time on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Australia, in which she left the show after declaring she desperately needed to use a proper toilet.
The It's Alright singer, 55, admitted she was not letting negative social media commentary impact her emotional well-being.
'Social media reaction hasn't tainted my time at all, seeing as I've been gone since December when we filmed the show. I see some of it, but everybody's got an opinion like an a***ole, man,' Deni told News.com.au.
'There's people that I don't like, but do you think I have the time to go to their page and write something negative?'
The daughter of Australian Idol judge Marcia Hines also admitted her outspoken demeanour may have resulted in some clashes with fellow contestants - but said she was still friends with some of them.
'There's people in life that I don't want to be friends with and people in life I do want to be friends with. Those are the campmates I have contacted since leaving the jungle,' she said.
Deni Hines (pictured) lashed out at the social media reaction to her time on I'm a Celebrity, in which she left the show after declaring she desperately needed to use a proper toilet
She then revealed which contestant she was rooting for to win the gruelling reality TV series.
'I would love Luke [Bateman] to win this. Luke is the most beautiful 30-year-old man. He's just got a great head on his shoulders, got a beautiful heart. He deserves to win this. I don't know who wins this s**t, but he deserves to,' she said.
The singer walked out of the reality series during Tuesday's episode after complaining that the camp diet of rice and beans was 'backing her up' and she was not comfortable using the outdoor bathroom facility, known as the 'long drop'.
'I wanna go home. If our team gets rice and beans tonight, I'm going home!' the 55-year-old warned her co-stars.
When rice and beans were indeed again on the menu that evening, Deni uttered those famous words: 'I'm a celebrity...get me out of here!'
Deni then listed the litany of toilet-related reasons that she wanted to exit the jungle-based series, in addition to complaining that there were 'too many personalities' in the camp.
'I want to leave the jungle because I can't s**t. It's been six days. I can't do rice and beans again. That will plug me up again,' she said.
'I refuse - refuse - to sit on that long drop more than five minutes... I know it's going to be more than five minutes. I want to go to a real toilet.'
The It's Alright singer admitted she was not letting negative social media commentary impact her emotional well-being
The daughter of Australian Idol judge Marcia Hines also admitted her outspoken demeanour may have resulted in some clashes with fellow contestants - but said she was still friends with some of them
Deni's departure left the campmates feeling deflated, but few tried to talk her out of going, as she had not been making many friends in the South African jungle.
On Monday's episode of the popular Channel Ten reality series, the It's Alright hitmaker clashed with comedian Nath Valvo, almost reducing him to tears.
After taking a dig at Triple J star Concetta Caristo for not helping out around the camp, Deni then set her sights on Nath.
'You're lazy as f***,' Deni said to Nath, who was taken aback by the statement.
He replied: 'Can you not say that, Den, because I've been offering [to help out] but I get told off.'
Nath was almost driven to tears as he spoke about the exchange with Concetta and Matt Zukowski.