Celebrities
Continue to Stick it Out in Costa Rica
By K.C. Morgan
It is now the third week of I’m a Celebrity,
Get Me Out Here, and rain in the jungle is
affecting production. But NBC isn’t about to
let a little thing like rain affect the
show. The hosts have been moved but the
cameras keep on rolling.
“I’m shocked,” Stephen Baldwin said of his
brother, Daniel, and his surprising
elimination from the show. “I’m going to
miss him,” the younger bro admitted.
“I couldn’t be happy that Daniel Baldwin is
gone, because he was a big bully!” Janice
Dickinson cried to the camera.
“It was really tacky and rude,” Torrie
Wilson observed of Dickinson’s behavior when
the elimination announcement was made.
John Salley started to have a rough time in
the camp after the departure of Daniel.
Finally, he and Janice were able to make up
and put some of their conflicts away.
The next luxury trial would require two
members of each team. The winners would
enjoy a luxurious massage as a result. Lou
Diamond Phillips was willing to give the
chance to compete to Stephen Baldwin, who
turned it down. This left Lou and John to
compete for the men. Again, the team of
Patti Blagojevich and Torrie Wilson would
compete for the women.
In order to win, team members would have to
stand on a plank while their team mate
worked to shorten the standing area of the
competitor’s plank. Salley employed his
usual strategy of trash-talking against
Torrie, who remained tough as nails and
continued to work the crank. She managed to
drop John while Patti stood strong, and
again the two ladies won the luxury item.
This time, at least, Janice would not be
able to steal some of their reward.
“We lost,” the men reported when they came
into camp. “She’s a beast,” Janice Dickinson
noted of Torrie. “I know what we’re up
against when we’re up against her,” Lou said
to the camera later.
The campers were then told to enjoy a
scavenger hunt. Each celeb would search the
camp for a mysterious item. If each one of
them could find the required items within
five minutes, they would get to enjoy a
“treat” of some sort.
Lou’s item was a candle, while Stephen had
to hunt a mirror. Patti Blagojevich ran to
grab the jump rope while Holly waited for
her turn to snatch up the brillo pad.
Sanjaya had to find tweezers, which were in
Dickinson’s bag. Torrie chased down the
dumbells; Janice had to find the nail
clippers. John Salley rushed to find toilet
paper to seal the deal, which he did with
only seconds remaining on the clock. The
prize for completing the challenge was all
the makings for s’mores, a treat which
delighted the celebs.
Even despite this fun, John Salley’s spirits
were still low. “I want to go home,” he
unexpectedly announced during the rainy
afternoon. “I can be home making pizza,
drinking wine,” he told Patti. “I want a
bed. I want a room. I want to go home,” he
said, deadpan, to the camera in the
confessional.
Sanjaya cooked the meal that night on
account of Salley’s low spirits, but he soon
became short with Janice Dickinson’s
commentary. “I can stick up for myself when
I need to,” Malakar pointed out to the
camera, which he proved when he stayed
strong against Janice’s harping.
“Get your heads right,” Lou, the camp
leader, told all the celebs, pointing out
that the game is mental as well as physical.
“Everybody really likes him.” Patti said in
the confessional of John Salley, the NBA
star.
“It felt good. It’s cool to be wanted,” John
Salley told the cameras. “I just decided to
man up,” he stated. And for now, John put
the idea of going back home back on the
shelf.
Janice Dickinson, the model, spoke very
openly about her bodily functions (or lack
thereof). As she put it “I can’t go poo.”
She tried eating prunes, Sanjaya rubbed her
stomach for a while. Stephen Baldwin even
suggested yoga positions.
Patti felt a little down after her video
conference with her husband, Rod
Blagojevich. “He looked tired,” she told
John Salley during a private moment.
Hosts Myleene Klass and Damien Fahey came to
announce which two celebs would compete in
the next food trial. Viewers voted on which
two would face the Tunnel of Terror, who
turned out to be Torrie Wilson and Sanjaya
Malakar. Both have been strong competitors
in the past.
Each would have to crawl into a dark tunnel,
filled with mud, dirt, water and hidden
stars they had to collect. Other creatures
would also join them in the tunnel. Malakar
made his way into the hole first and quickly
found two stars amid a group of snakes. He
faced iguanas to get a third and battled
spiders to grab yet another of the hidden
stars. At one point, he found a tarantula on
his back. Sanjaya swam through baby
crocodiles and crawled through mud to finish
up the tunnel, nabbing nineteen out of
twenty stars.
Would Torrie Wilson do so well? She followed
Malakar into the tunnel, but she would have
to get every star to beat him and win the
challenge. Wilson made it out of the tunnel
just as the clock wound down to the final
seconds, coming away with a total of
eighteen.
Covered in mud and various goo, the
competitors returned to camp. “I knew you
were the only one who could take her down,”
Lou Diamond Phillips smiled at the pop star.
“Today, we really believed she’s sick,” John
Salley said of Janice Dickinson, whose
health began to rapidly deteriorate out
there in the jungle. “I was holding her hair
back while she was throwing up today,” Patti
told some of the others during the evening.
Lou walked Janice toward the ambulance,
which whisked the model away for treatment.
The staff there diagnosed her with a viral
infection and decided to keep her overnight.
As the celebs slept, a snake crept into camp
at around three in the morning,. Security
guards crept in to capture the animal, which
obviously posed some true danger to the
campers. Patti and John were awakened by the
commotion, but no one was bitten before the
wranglers were able to remove it from their
living quarters.
Janice returned to camp in high spirits
shortly after everyone awakened for the
morning. “It’s great to see that her spirits
are back up,” Lou said in his confessional.
Since we’re at the beginning of another
week, it was time again for the celebs to
elect a new camp leader. Lou Diamond
Phillips has enjoyed the honor for two weeks
in a row, and he’s my personal favorite on
the show. Phillips has had ample opportunity
to prove his skills, often mediating and
doling out chores with undisputed fairness.
But since he has served two terms, Phillips
cannot run for a third term among the
campers. “It has been an honor and a
privilege to be camp leader,” he told the
group.
The leadership trial would be a Q and A
session, as based upon questions and answers
given by NBC viewers. John Salley was
believed to be the camper who did the most
work. Every celeb voted Janice as being the
laziest, and everyone was right. The most
famous celeb, as decided by NBC viewers, was
John Salley. Worst bed hair was given to
Sanjaya, who voted for himself on that
question. Each celeb who came up with the
winning answer was able to add a strike next
to each name - people getting three strikes
would not become the leader.
Voters believed John to be the smartest
camper in the crew, and Torrie added a third
strike to send Malakar to the bench. The
best team player of the group was also John
Salley, who voted correctly and put Stephen
out of the leadership trial. Sanjaya was
thought to be the heaviest sleeper of the
group, and Holly Montag was taken out of the
challenge. Janice was thought to eat more
than anyone else, and Torrie put herself out
of the contest when she came away with the
correct answer. John Salley added Patti’s
first strike to the board. He added a second
on the next question, and on the very next
question added her third strike and became
the leader of the group.
“If I can get Janice to be quiet for an
hour, I’m a really good leader…and, a
magician,” he laughed to the camera. His
first privilege was to receive pictures of
his family, which he proudly shared with the
rest of the camp.
Up In Arms, the next immunity trial, took
place at the end of the episode - but we
didn’t get to see it on account of the
weather delays. The results of this
challenge will be revealed tomorrow night.
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