As if the recent voting scandal wasn't enough to shake ITV to its foundations, disaster has now struck producers of its celeb humiliation series I'm a celebrity, get me out of here, amid reports of environmental contamination on location in Australia.
Under what are being described as 'mysterious circumstances', the 'jungle' site (located in balmy New South Wales) has become contaminated with a toxic insecticide. The Department of Environment and Climate Change officials have advised people to stay away from the water, and banned fishing and swimming. Quite a blow for the makers of the series which see Z-listers regularly undergoing the horror of immersing their hair extensions in the jungle's pools and swamps.
I have to admit that this is one environmental disaster I feel ambivalent about.....
I think they should keep quiet about this and let the 'celebs' undertake a really gruelling challenge -- trying to survive in the sort of conditions we'll all be suffering within the decade. Watching them perish of toxic poisoning would be a real ratings winner in our house.
Honestly I think 'I'm a celeb get me out of here' is a disgrace.
Can't these "celebrities" find better ways of getting back into the limelight than sitting their arses around a campfire for God knows how many grueling (for the viewers) weeks doing nothing but complaining they're either too hot or too cold?!
And really, don't the producers think cockroaches and such like have better things to do with their lives than crawl over fame starved wanna be's?
I don't really mind reality programs, I just think it's money wasted.. A week after it finishes and it's all forgotten! I don't like how they use animals even if they are "only" bugs sometimes for the pleasure of the viewers.
(Being a vegan I could go on all night about cruelty to animals, but I won't since most people who read this will be rolling there eyes thinking "oh God not another one")
I did however snigger at Carrol Thatcher having to eat those.. Um, Kangeroo... err, "parts". But only because I enjoyed her suffering. =]
Oh and the toxic contamination? I heard that they spray the jungle with insecticides to keep the dangerous bugs/animals out of the celeb camp. Coincidence? I doubt it...
Honestly I think 'I'm a celeb get me out of here' is a disgrace.
Can't these "celebrities" find better ways of getting back into the limelight than sitting their arses around a campfire for God knows how many grueling (for the viewers) weeks doing nothing but complaining they're either too hot or too cold?!
And really, don't the producers think cockroaches and such like have better things to do with their lives than crawl over fame starved wanna be's?
I don't really mind reality programs, I just think it's money wasted.. A week after it finishes and it's all forgotten! I don't like how they use animals even if they are "only" bugs sometimes for the pleasure of the viewers.
(Being a vegan I could go on all night about cruelty to animals, but I won't since most people who read this will be rolling there eyes thinking "oh God not another one").
I did however snigger at Carrol Thatcher having to eat those.. Um, Kangeroo... err, "parts". But only because I enjoyed her suffering. =]
Oh and the toxic contamination? I heard that they spray the jungle with insecticides to keep the dangerous bugs/animals out of the celeb camp. Coincidence? I doubt it...
Sorry I posted twice!
Talking about Carrol Thatcher and her delightful "snack" in the Jungle brought back off-putting memories and I got distracted!
I won't since most people who read this will be rolling there eyes thinking