David Oldfield has been branded a ‘racist pig’ by his I’m A Celebrity…Get Me out Of Here! co-star and comedian Fiona O’Loughlin in a heated exchange about Australia’s Indigenous population on Thursday’s episode.
The fracas started when Josh Gibson confronted David, asking him what he thought of Aboriginal people.
‘I don’t have a negative feeling about them,’ David replied. ‘I don’t like a lot of the promotion that’s not based in any truth.’
Slammed: David Oldfield has been branded a ‘racist pig’ by his I’m A Celebrity…Get Me out Of Here! co-star and comedian Fiona O’Loughlin in a heated exchange about Australia’s Indigenous population on Thursday’s episode.
David incensed his campmates, particularly Fiona, when he claimed black people have never invented anything useful.
Accusing Fiona of suffering ‘white guilt’, he said: ‘You’re responsible for flush toilets, responsible for automobiles, you’re responsible for all of it quite frankly and most of the people upset about not being involved in that have not been responsible for it but benefitted from it.’
When David claimed that Aboriginals ‘didn’t invent anything,’ Fiona lashed out with: ‘Oh, you racist pig.’
Strong words: ‘You’re suffering white guilt,’ told Fiona. ‘You think you”re responsible for everything that’s gone wrong.’
Fiona, who revealed that she had fostered several Aboriginal children, had earlier taken David to task over his comment saying that white Australia had engendered a number of lies about the Indigenous population.
‘I can tell you also, there’s a big fat lie – we’ve spread enough lies as well by saying they were only nomadic – that’s bulls**t, they actually had crops.’
Giving no quarter, David claimed that Fiona was suffering from ‘white guilt.’
‘You’re suffering white guilt,’ he said. ‘You think you’re responsible for everything that’s gone wrong.’
Continuing his incendiary rebuttal, David added: ‘What you’re responsible for is the modern world as it is with all its accouterments.’
Intolerant? When David claimed that Aboriginals ‘didn’t invent anything,’ Fiona lashed out with: ‘Oh, you racist pig.’
Wanting to dissect David’s comments, Josh then asked: ‘You’re saying there’s been no black people that have helped in the development of those things?’
‘The technological advancement that created civilisation as we know it as Western peoples has been brought about by Western peoples,’ David said.
He continued: ‘It hasn’t been brought about by the tribes of Africa or the Aborigines of Australia or the highlanders of New Guinea.’
Fracas: Fiona even urged David to speak to her son, who works with Indigenous people in the Northern Territory to which he replied: ‘why would I bother?’
Fiona even urged David to speak to her son, who works with Indigenous people in the Northern Territory to which he replied: ‘why would I bother?’
‘Because he knows what he’s talking about and you don’t,’ she replied.
David then questioned the idea of Reconciliation, which proved to be the straw that broke Fiona’s back who angrily exited the conversation.
‘You are hideous to me. Hideous. You make my skin crawl,’ Fiona shouted before taking her leave, but not before issuing a loud ‘f**k you’ to David.
No quarter: ‘You are hideous to me. Hideous. You make my skin crawl,’ Fiona shouted before taking her leave, but not before issuing a loud ‘f**k you’ to David