Nigel Farage wants people to see the ‘real him’ in the jungle. Surely we’ve seen more than enough already

‘To watch Farage in the jungle is to watch an emotional black hole trying very hard not to come across as one.’ Photograph: ITV/Shutterstock

To the Australian jungle, where the most successful politician of his generation/seven-times-failed UK parliamentary candidate Nigel Farage is appearing on popular reality format I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! “As for little me,” stealth diva Nigel confided to the ITV cameras on Wednesday, “there is a lot of speculation after they lose the next election, maybe Nigel becomes leader of the Tory party one day – so there’s a lot of chatter about whether it’s going to happen. I have no idea.”

Thank you for sharing, dear old “little me” – and for that bonus reference to yourself in the third person. It’s rare to see a politician lay out their personal ambitions and the path towards them with quite such sledgehammer precision, and arguably rarer still to see it shortly after ITV has shown his naked arse in an outdoor shower. An earlier vignette had seen Little Me stagily disappointed not to be selected for the bushtucker trial. “If you do the challenges,” Farage explained sotto voce to fellow contestant Grace Dent, “it’s 25% of the airtime.”