'I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!' (ITV) is this Autumn's escapist trash and there's no point being too superior about it as 'thetvreviewguy' can't defend this rubbish intellectually; he will just agree with you. Whatever it is about IACGMOOH, the 2012 take are living up/down to most expectations. It's a total switch off from the cruddy news out there and while Ant N Dec (Caitlin Moran says that you can tell them apart because Ant is the one that looks like an Ant) show no sign of growing old gracefully, they do provide light relief in these dire times. Now 'thetvreviewguy' does not enjoy the Bush Tucker trials as much as some viewers and wouldn't keep voting that poor girl Helen in but he does enjoy the silliness of it all. As for the Nadine Dorries controversy, well as long as she's a good sport and plays the game, it's no skin off his nose that an MP from Westminster is far removed from her constituents. The 'celebrity' nature of IACGMOOH is always elastic; never heard of him, who is she? There's also a moral on the transitory nature of fame; Colin Baker was once 'Dr Who', for goodness sake and Limahl also used to be a massive star. But in the Jungle, you're brought back down to earth pretty damn quickly. Even winning the contest doesn't really kick-start or re-boot a career but it does provide the viewing public with some mindless entertainment. And it beats the Hell out of X Factor etc in being able to take the piss out of itself.
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