I'm a celebrity 2023

stufisher

So, confession time for me ... I wasn't going to watch I'm a celebrity but I was sitting reading and sipping my Guinness when Ant & Dec started with the daftness ... and it set me off.

Now I'll start watching it off and on for the craic ... which will lead to becoming immersed in the series as it unfolds. 

Yes, I know Farage will get pillaried and he'll have to do every trial but A & D bants just makes it for me. Anyway, it's probably gonna be funnier than owt else on the box ... so, there you are, confession of a sixty something.

Anyone else got a view or comment on this?

midiman1962

First Brexit discussion and all except 3 of the camp mates do a runner - wasn’t expecting that ; I’m not really watching btw

Shrews

It will just be the Nigel Farage show with not many others getting a look in unless one of them gets their kit off and gives the audience a Myleene Klass bikini moment.

Even Boris Johnson's dad did well in this from memory. 

thumpingrug

I think Farage knows he will be up for every trial and is deliberately playing them with a poker face.  he's hoping the public get bored of him just getting on with it and want to see someone more entertaining.    I hope he's wrong and we see him chuck his weasly guts at some stage.  The git.

Emp_Fab

With any luck they'll all go mental and cook him in a pot.

stufisher

I hate the twunt ... it's all entirely predictable of course ... I think Groggg Fred and Garage might get to bats at some point.

Question remains ... WTF drives a public (pubic) servant to ritual humiliation ... other than the £1.5M of course ?

mikeyrob73

Mrs started watching it last night, I went to bed, didn’t watch last year because I knew I would ended up shouting at the screen every time Hat Mancock was on, be the same this year with stealth Racist Farage. 

Nope not for me

Tone71

Ant and Dec make it for me too, find them very funny which is good as don't much care for anyone on there.

Emp_Fab

Ohhhhhh.....  I've just had a great idea!  Instead of voting who should leave (if that's the way they do it, I have no idea!) they should allow the public to choose the trials for each contestant.

What would you choose for which contestant?

Philly_Q

stufisher said:

Anyone else got a view or comment on this?

Well, I did think of starting a thread, just to see if anyone was watching it. 

I watched it for quite a few years, it was the only "reality" show I watched (apart from The Apprentice).  I think in the early years it was quite interesting, you did get the feeling that you were getting to know a side of these celebs that was different from their usual public persona.  But now it's become so formularised and repetitive.

I may be wrong, but they don't even seem to get all starved and delirious any more, which they definitely did early on.

It's a weirdly dated concept.  If someone came up with the idea now - celebrities being made to go through humiliating ordeals and eat horrible things - it would get chucked right out.  We're much more caring and supportive nowadays.  If Ant and Dec decide to give it up they'd have to axe it, it's really all down to their popularity.

No, I'm not watching it, and I won't be starting either.

thermionic

Shrews said:

It will just be the Nigel Farage show with not many others getting a look in unless one of them gets their kit off and gives the audience a Myleene Klass bikini moment.

It was Farage who got his kit off apparently…

stufisher

Interesting that you also watch(ed) The Apprentice @phillyQ ... me too. I can't help myself ... I love it ... it's more like the environment I recognise in my past professional life 

ALFs trying to get the limelight like a sapling in a rainforest ... anyway, it'll be on TV in Q124 I think so not long to wait.

Interestingly, everyone I know hates the programme whereas I just see it as a manifest of all business behaviours ... although they've probably got worse since I stopped working.

BTW ... ALF means aggressive little fuqqers!

Philly_Q

It's become increasingly less true over the years, but on The Apprentice I feel like they are at least doing something, as opposed to Big Brother, TOWIE, Love Island, Made In Chelsea etc where they basically sit around doing fuck all other than being totally self-absorbed and hoping it'll be a launchpad to a career as a "celebrity".

Let's face it though, even on The Apprentice half of them nowadays are just using it as a step onto the celebrity ladder.  But it wasn't like that in the Ruth Badger days.

Offset

I'd rather drive white hot needles through my kneecaps than watch that drivel.  Ant and Dec are intensely irritating little fuckers to boot.

In short: no, I won't be watching.

rsvmark

Tone71 said:

Ant and Dec make it for me too, find them very funny which is good as don't much know anyone on there.

FTFY

axisus

I've dipped in and out at times over the years (Myleene Klass has always been a big fave of mine!). 

I looked at the 'celebs' this year, and literally only recognised Farage. It's less appealing when I don't know them. Having said that, it does get interesting once you get to know people. Some people come across as rather rubbish, and some come across as lovely, kind, helpful sorts. Two that I was surprised I liked - Peter Andre and David Gest. Also hats off to David Haye, he was a very nice chap and amazingly good at all the challenges. Nothing fazed him and I think he got max stars every time. I liked that posh bimbo girl who won it one year (don't recall her name, and a bit unfair calling her a bimbo, but I was just fishing for a description that people may get!), and great when Harry Redknapp won!

Also, I'm another who really likes Ant & Dec on the show. Such a funny pair. 

Anyway, I can't buy into watching loads of TV, but i will probably catch odd bits here and there. 

fretmeister

It's so obvious Farage is using it to try to come across as just a bloke and not as a xenophobic racist. I bet he tries to run for parliament again next time and this is the first step.

bertie

fretmeister said:

It's so obvious Farage is using it to try to come across as just a bloke and not as a xenophobic racist. I bet he tries to run for parliament again next time and this is the first step.

unfortunately  Sillyaxe  made him look just that 

Kilgore

It's a refreshing change to see Farage eating bollocks, not just talking bollocks.

boogieman

fretmeister said:

It's so obvious Farage is using it to try to come across as just a bloke and not as a xenophobic racist. I bet he tries to run for parliament again next time and this is the first step.

I haven’t watched I’m a Celeb for years, but that was my thought when I saw he was in it this year. Either that or he’s an attention seeking arsehole who just want public attention, in any form. 

Actually thinking about it, it’s probably both. 

Devil#20

I looked at the people who are in it and there was only Farage I've heard of. II can't stand Ant and Dec either and  the trials are tedious. They are just rehashed variations on a theme and all very predictable. I'll bung it on to record and watch some of the bits in camp maybe; maybe not. If the media say there's a bit of argy bargy starts in there I'll have it recorded to ffwd to those bits. I recorded them last year and didn't watch a single one. It's gone on too long now, unless they can get some famous people in it.