NBC Premieres Reality Show Live
From Costa Rica
The stars of "I'm A Celebrity... get
me out of here" began their month
long adventure in the jungles of
Costa Rica, with live and taped
episodes airing on NBC's summer
premiere last night.
Last night, NBC aired a 2 hour show
and will continue with one hour
segments four times a week - Monday
to Thursday - for the entire month
of June.
The weirdest aspect of I'm a
Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! is
that the worst thing about the show
isn't the celebrities, it's
everything surrounding them: the
hosts, the competitions, the lack of
imagination, write Entertainment
Weekly (EW).
EW continues, "the celebs, they've
got imagination to burn. Spencer
Pratt was his usual repulsive self,
but it was pretty clever of him to
call NBC entertainment president Ben
Silverman to complain about the
living conditions he was enduring in
Costa Rica. Sanjaya is so
imaginative, he was content to stare
at a fire and marvel at "the whole
concept of how it works."
Stephen Baldwin had the verbal
dexterity to refer to a bit of tripe
he ate as emitting "a little fart of
disgustingness." And Heidi Montag --
'scuse me, Mrs. Heidi Pratt, as she
prefers to be known now -- had the
imagination to apologize for her
husband's egomaniacal, pathetically
lame reality-show ranting by saying,
"My husband is a very new
Christian," and
therefore deserves to be forgiven.
There's been little doubt that
Illinois' former first lady, Patti
Blagojevich, is standing by her man,
but as she sat around the campfire
with fellow "celebrities" in Costa
Rica, she laid it out in no
uncertain terms.
"My husband was governor for six
years and, you know, was always
about doing the right thing for
people," she told fellow campers.
The concept of the show is a
competition to see who can last the
Costa Rican jungles the longest. No
one was eliminated in Monday night's
episode, but Tuesday's show will see
someone headed out of the jungle.
The celebrities will be donating
their winnings to their favourite
charities, the longer they stay in
the jungle, the bigger the prize.
But, don't worry, they are not doing
it for nothing. The stars of on "I'm
A Celebrity... get me out of here"
are being paid very well for their
time in the jungle and although on
camera they are roughing it up, you
can be assured that they are
enjoying the comforts of the local
Sararipiqui hospitality.
In the words of Patti before coming
to Costa Rica, she is doing it for
the money and her family, which
according to her impromptu remarks,
is hurting right now. |
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