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I’m not convinced this year’s I’m A Celebrity is good TV


Tulisa and Melvin Odoom looking forlorn on I'm A Celebrity

This year’s I’m A Celebrity is missing the drama (Picture: ITV/Shutterstock)

As I watched the I’m A Celebrity campmates get on perfectly, I couldn’t help but feel skeptical.

It’s clear to me, having been in the Jungle myself, that the celebrities this year are being very careful. I do not think that these personalities would, under normal circumstances, compliment each other so harmoniously.

I believe the real raw emotions have not quite boiled into the surface yet, and I don’t know if that makes for great TV.

Viewers like myself want to be entertained and, while it’s refreshing to see the cast get along so well, a good old fashioned blazing row would not go amiss.

I’d even go as far to say, if it wasn’t for the handful of comedic personalities, like witty one-line queens Maura Higgins and GK Barry, the show would be lacking in the entertainment department. They have saved the day.

Even Dean McCullough is failing to bring the drama. I feel like his spat with Alan Halsall was blown out of proportion as they could have asked another campmate to help Jane Moore collect firewood as he was clearly asleep.

The show has changed since I was a campmate in 2010 (Picture: ITV/Shutterstock)

Dean has been this year’s most controversial campmate so far (Picture: ITV/Shutterstock)

I can also vouch for Dean that it takes a few minutes to adjust contact lenses once you’ve woken up. I’ve been around that fire and it’s very drying for your eyes making it difficult to see. Everyone was mocking him but there’s truth to what he said.

The onslaught of hostility towards Dean for his attempts at Bushtucker Trials has also been horribly unfair.

The public has no idea what it’s like having hundreds of cockroaches crawling all over your body or being encased in a coffin – but I do and it’s horrific.

If you don’t have a reaction to that kind of suffering then you need to be studied as it’s not normal. I would have to be hypnotised if I ever signed up for I’m A Celebrity again.

The nation’s heart broke when Barry spoke about the death of his daughter (Picture: ITV/Shutterstock)

Danny spoke openly about living with anxiety on I’m A Celebrity (Picture: ITV/Shutterstock)

I feel so strongly about this because everyone is against Dean and I feel compelled to help the underdog. I know Ant has urged viewers to stop nominating him for Bushtucker Trials but it’s futile as no one listens to him.

What I have welcomed this year, though, is seeing celebrities’ vulnerable sides. We did not have such frank discussions about our private lives in the jungle in 2010. It’s a sign of the times as mental health is no longer such a taboo.

For example, I had absolutely no idea Danny Jones lived with anxiety. I’ve met him before and never thought for a minute he would be anxious. …read more

Source:: Metro

      

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