Reality TV eats itself

In the increasingly desperate world of Reality TV the BBC can always be relied on for quality, with Strictly Come Dancing and Celebrity MasterChef bringing proper slebs into our living rooms.

Producers have just released the “eclectic” line-up of this year’s Celebrity MasterChef contestants — which, oddly, seems to be almost devoid of any proper slebs. (Eclectic is the new word for ‘barrel-scraping’.)

Taking the lead from its more low-rent competitors (naming no names) the Beeb has decided to feature people whose family are famous. Enter Dolly Parton’s sister Stella, Lily Allen’s dad Keith and Spencer Matthews who is engaged to Vogue Williams and, double-whammy, is P-Middy’s brother-in-law.

There’s also pre-Perestroika singers Carol Decker and Anita Harris. The rest… who knows? Except for TOWIE ‘star’ Gemma Collins. When ‘The GC’, as she calls herself, is the biggest sleb on screen, you know the show is half-baked.