Wot, no Matt? Last night’s opening episode of the 22nd series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! was very much a scene-setter, bigging up the two, high-profile likely fan favourites, Boy George and Mike Tindall, and keeping the obvious hate figure, former Health Secretary Matt Hancock, in reserve. We have to wait at least until tonight (Monday), maybe even later, before we begin the process of voting repeatedly for Matt to chomp his way through bucketloads of marsupial penile gristle. Boo. Talk about delayed gratification.
Back in Australia after two years in Wales, this increasingly questionable and reductive franchise relies on a familiar mix of A, D and Y-list celebrities, and a policy of divide and rule. This year’s gaggle were introduced as two groups of five at sumptuous waterside locations in Queensland’s Gold Coast. Then two pairs of VIPs – “very isolated personalities,” giggled hosts Ant and Dec – were immediately split off before everyone made their gradual way to camp.
