Unlike the usual versions of I’m A Celebrity, the new spin-off is actually pre-recorded. It was filmed in September last year in Kruger National Park, one of South Africa’s largest game reserves.
Crikey I didn’t know that. Thanks for letting me know
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TBH, I prefer the way the series runs without all the voting of the standard series. In fact, I would have liked longer episodes … 
Ep 12 - Survivor Trials
Tuffers and Joe Head-to-Head in coffins full of snakes - Tuffers kept his head and escaped, Joe was sent home.
Some of the men in the camp are a distinctly unhygienic - they don’t wash, they don’t shave and they don’t change their underwear … 
I don’t know if Helen washes or shaves but she does seem to wear the bejewelled pink bikini all the time, exposing far more flesh than the other ladies … 
All campers in a cage/key/critters trial - Fatima, Myleene and Carol out first … and survived … to be continued … 
I’m enjoying the series and I think the celebs are nice . Tuffnal was upset wasn’t he , but I don’t think he was miffed at Paul but just felt let down by all .
Blimey Paul has lost weight
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I wonder what they had for dinner that day - maybe we’ll see tonight … 
So Helen has gone , thought she could have won
Oh I bet the hotel is wonderful now they can have a great holiday
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Helen … and Dean - both have trouble with keys at home, so … 
Helen’s arms were dreadfully skinny and her face looked almost skeletal:
No doubt she pigged out on chocolate, cake and wine at the hotel (and was probably violently sick).
All was quiet in camp, all slept well after a barracuda supper and Tuffers got his humour back.
Paul and Carol faced another difficult trial - height, holes and hateful critters - only 3 stars gained.
Myleene, too, is now rapidly losing weight (but, allegedly, doesn’t weigh herself at home).
No time for tea (even if there was any) - another Survival Trial and two more campers to leave.
Another day, a trip to a vineyard, more sets of keys, more slime, guts and fish-eyes - Carol and Paul are out.
Dinner-time - Phil was hoping that it wasn’t antelope’s arse - it wasn’t - it was antelope neck - bone with flecks of meat … and less of it because Fatima and Myleene had stolen (and shared) grapes from the vineyard. While the others chewed on the few miserable scraps of meat, Fatima took only the bone (because she’d instigated the theft) and gnawed on that.
Next day - the Cyclone - just a bit of fun and four stars won.
Then the twist:
Back at camp, the evicted campers, looking remarkably human (except for the injured Janice, who looked like a disfigured ghost, even in far shot) return and decide which three of the four survivors (who are, meanwhile, having a waterfall feast) to keep - Fatima and Jordan were easy picks but Myleene or Phil?
To be continued …
Fatima to win , what an amazing woman she is .
Not bothered about the rest
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They’re all winners … well, apart from ‘grumpy old man’ Phil, an idle bar-steward who “survives” by being ‘funny’.
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The Finals:
Phil was not selected for the Final Free
Fatima, Myleene and Jordan underwent a trial of the extremities - head, hands and feet enclosed then critters ‘introduced’ - against the clock and each other - Fatima lasted the longest but was furthest from the required time - out.
Myleene v Jordan in an eating trial - quantity counted - after a cautious start, Myleene went “big” and downed huge quantities of obnoxious inedibles in short order. TBH, I found her fixation startling, even worrying - in the last round, she devoured an amount meant to be divided between two. Her ambition, patently, knows no bounds. I found this to be a deeply unpleasant side to her character. She claimed, as most of the campers did, that she was “doing it for my kids” but her level of commitment went beyond that - it was a ferocious intent … 
Of course, she won and will make millions on the back of it but my best wishes go to Jordan, who I’d never heard of but who displayed admirable character traits throughout a series, which I found, for the most part, diverting and amusing … 
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