Reality Stars Charged With Cruelty to Animals

Published by PETA Staff.
2 min read

Reality-show contestants Gino D’Acampo and Stuart Manning have been charged with cruelty to animals for allegedly killing and eating a rat in Australia’s Outback while filming Britain’s I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here.

 

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“I saw one of these rats running around. I got a knife, I got its throat, I picked it up,” said Gino D’Acampo.
 D'Acampo

 

It seems like only yesterday that PETA sent its first plea to television producers, at the time it was for Survivor, begging them to leave animals alone. In fact, the outcry after contestants in a subsequent season chased, stabbed, killed, and cooked a pig on Survivor: The Australian Outback prompted a change in Australia’s laws to make it illegal to torture and kill animals for entertainment. Apparently, execs at IACGMOOH missed that memo.

I bet they’ll pay attention now, especially since IACGMOOH contestant George Hamilton told the Mirror that execs gave the go-ahead for the kill. (Worth mentioning: Hamilton notes that the rat, who was the main course in D’Acampo’s “rat risotto,” was a camp worker’s companion animal.)

Australia dishes up cruelty to animals in many forms, but it beats the U.S. when it comes to laws that protect animals from television show abuses. Reality-show stars everywhere are hopefully taking note and will think twice next time they contemplate torturing an animal for ratings.

Written by Karin Bennett

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