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Tziporah Malkah labels Kris Smith 'anti-Semite' and 'chauvinist' in I'm A Celebrity clash.

Former model Tziporah Malkah has called male model Kris Smith an ‘anti-Semite’ and ‘chauvinist’ after he accused her of playing the ‘victim card’ on last night’s episode of I’m a Celebrity… Get me out of here!

Malkah, 43, formerly known as Kate Fischer, had apparently been causing contention throughout the camp… Which is somewhere in the middle of the South African jungle, and the temporary home to 12 very-much-out-of-their-comfort-zone celebrities.

She stood in front of the darts board, while Smith, 38, and television presenter Steve Price were mid-game.

She stirred the cooking pot of beans, despite being asked not to by etiquette expert Ash Pollard. The beans had just been stirred, and Pollard wanted them crispy. Malkah stirred them anyway.

Then, she sat down next to Smith and told him: “They’re just giving me a hard time. I’m a target. What can I say? People hate Jews.”

“Are you playing the victim card again?” he asked.

“What victim card?”

Kris Smith and Tziporah Malkah... Very heated words. Image via Channel 10.
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Smith wasn't backing down: "That 'everyone picks on your cause you're a target'," he said.

"I am a target," Malkah fired back. Smith then told her "she gives as good as she gets".

By this time, the whole camp was tuned in. Sitting around the campfire listening to two big personalities enter into a debate that, let's be real, was never going to end well. 'Where's the popcorn?' one contestant asked.

Pollard also chimed in to remind Malkah that she had, quite literally, just "stirred the beans".

Ash Pollard and Kris Smith. Image via Channel 10.
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Malkah asked Smith for an example and he called upon the game-of-darts saga. It escalated... rapidly.

Malkah denied intervening. She said she and fellow contestant Keira Maguire were rushing somewhere. That she was only standing near the darts board for "five seconds".

Smith accused her of responding rudely when Price stepped up to take his shot and said 'excuse me'... twice. He also told her she wasn't making sense.

"Kris just imagines I'm an evil person cause he's an anti-Semite," Malkah told the camp. "And he's a chauvinist as well."

"Can someone go get her violin?," Smith said, before walking away.

Malkah and SMith after their argument. Image via Channel 10.
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Later, Malkah admitted she doesn't really think 'everyone hates Jews' and she was just saying it for effect. She also told producers the tiff was mostly banter, and said she thought she'd reacted quite well.

Smith however, was not having any of it. He told producers he was "trying hard not to unleash".

Later, when Malkah asked about the "bad blood" between them, Smith said he had "no desire" to speak to her.

"No one calls me anti-Semitic when you know nothing about my life, my history, my family, or my friends," he said. "And then you call me a chauvinist. No way. I have zero desire to talk to you after that."

All for a game of darts...