Despite the pair seemingly growing closer during their time in the jungle, when asked about today on This Morning, Joey said there was nothing romantic between them.
When asked if he and Amy were an item, Joey replied: “No, we’re just close friends. We’re just really, really close. Some people said we went on a date to McDonald’s but we didn’t.”
Insisting that the pair are just friends, Joey continued: “We were like really close as friends, but cause of the cameras we just wanted to get to know each other a but more.”
He also spoke of his confusion as to why some of the other contestants hadn’t taken to Amy like he did.
Talking about the I’m a Celebrity wrap party, where it was reported that the jungle ‘bullying’ towards Amy continued, he said: “I stood by Amy all night and I said, ‘please everyone, just leave her alone. She’s only 21, she’s younger than me.’
“She is a nice genuine girl. It wasn’t nice to be [in the jungle] and see that. She didn’t do anything wrong, I thought it was hilarious when we found out that she had 21 bikinis.”
Moving away from relationships, Joey reflected on what he had to do whilst in the jungle, particularly eating strange body parts of animals.
He said: “The turkey ball was like a water bomb, I should have bit it first and drained it. When I first ate the pig brain, I thought, ‘it can’t get any worse’, but it did. The ostrich penis was disgusting.
“I felt so sick after. When I came out, everyone kept saying they couldn’t believe I did it, but I couldn’t believe it either. “
Joey also admitted that before the jungle he didn’t know that you had to chop vegetables, saying: “I thought they just kind of came like that in Marks and Spencer.”