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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

ITV normalises the abhorrent by putting Nigel Farage in the jungle

Nigel Farage in I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
Nigel Farage in I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! Photograph: ITV/Shutterstock

So it begins again. The annoying and the terminally needy. And that’s just Ant and Dec. Then there are the contestants. The very loosely titled celebs in I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! ITV’s annual bingefest of sadism.

People you’ve never heard of. People you think you might have heard of. People you’ve heard of and wish you hadn’t. All human dysfunction is here. An orgy of narcissism. This year capped off by the presence of Nigel Farage.

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