In the Jungle, every celeb has their price
Why oh why do politicians enter I’m a Celebrity? I reckon it’s an equal split between the attention and the cash; after all, everyone has their own price.
In this instance quite literally, as each “sleb” is offered a different fiveor six-figure fee, commensurate with either their watchability or their (self) importance.
Once that’s pocketed, it’s all about ego. If Stanley Johnson or Kezia Dugdale simply wanted to “do something completely different” or “test themselves”, there are countless ways to go about it, far from the cameras.
Trek through Pays Dogon in Mali, undertake a Comic Relief challenge, build a school in some benighted war-torn land. Or patriotically source some British animal penises and eat them in the privacy of their own homes.
Instead, we have ex-scottish Labour leader Dugdale, 36, getting snippy with her campmates, and 77-year-old former MEP and author Johnson harrumphing and being conspicuously hopeless at his first Bushtucker Trial. I’d happily see the pair of them joined together with handcuffs for the duration. Nothing tests political mettle more than a coalition of inconvenience.