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I’m a Celeb – contestants named

Chat here for I’m a Celeb, which starts tonight on Ten.
So far we have confirmed Bernard Tomic, actress Kerry Armstrong (that was the SeaChange clue) and former AFL player Josh Gibson.
Guess Bernie is trying to show we’re all wrong and he’s just a regular guy.

It begins …
Shannon Noll. He should be pretty cruisy with the physical challenges.
Tiffany aka “I Think We’re Alone Now” singer from 80s/90s. So NOT Paulini or Ricki-Lee, as the “one name” clue had us all thinking.
Jackie Gillies from Desperate Housewives does not stop talking. I can tell Nollsy is already trying not to roll his eyes when she mentions she’s a psychic. Does this mean we’ll get husband Ben (from Silverchair) as well?
Tiffany has that polite American thing going on where she pretends to know who people are.
Poor Tiff is first up to have to make a giant leap off a bridge into the river below, where kayaks await. After initial nerves she gets on with it – it’s a big leap that no doubt looks smaller on TV.
For the girls, clambering into the kayaks seems even trickier than the jump. It’s Nollsy to the rescue. So he IS chivalrous – that whole getting thrown out of a strip club in Adelaide business was just a misunderstanding.

Next up, in the pouring rain, is the previously announced former AFL player Josh Gibson, dressed all in hipster white and a panama hat to wade through the mud, where he kindly carries Peter Rowsthorn(aka Brett from Kath & Kim) from the car to safety.

Pete knows who “Gibbo” is because he’s from Melbourne.
Josh also carries Simone, who was a finalist on Next Top Model (I have a vague recollection) a few years back and has now gone on to model internationally. She’s excited to see “Brettie” but can barely walk in her tottering heels.
Team Nollsy finishes their kayak trip and collects their Celeb uniforms.
Then it’s Team Pete’s turn to go backwards on a flying fox, stepping backwards blindly off a ledge.
Simone seems to step off without hesitation and I learn now that Channel 10 does not bleep out the “shits” and regret letting Mr Almost 6 stay up on his last day of school holidays.

More arrivals
As we knew, it’s Kerry Armstrong, best known as Heather Jelly from SeaChange and many Australian films.
And then tennis player Bernard Tomic arrives. It’s not raining so it must have been filmed at a different time. I kind of would have liked to see BT slogging through the mud to see how he handled it.
Comedian Fiona O’Loughlin arrives. This should be fun. I was thrown off the scent by her having some shows at the Adelaide Fringe Festival but I guess that’s not until the show ends. Kerry has to tell BT who Fiona is (and it’s a given he does not know Kerry is).
A chopper lands with some commando types and BT starts freaking out at the thought of skydiving.
Kerry tells a comforting story about some actors whose heads were chopped off by helicopter blades.

Teams Nollsy and Pete meet up on the ground and watch the skydivers land. Kerry is first and serenely leaps out.Everyone on the ground recognises BT and wonders why he’s in the jungle instead of rolling around in his millions. Up in the chopper they’ve left Fiona until last as they know she’s packing death.

BT keeps chewing on some straw, yokel style – is he having nicotine withdrawal?
JMo and Chris arrive for a quick chat and already there’s a Kath & Kim reference “I fell it in my waters”. I look forward to seeing if she can sneak in “baby cheeses” and “veneer of monogamy”. Card-onnay and look at moi are givens.

Who else will enter?
So, we’ll get at least two late arrivals and they must relate to these clues:
“Two celebrities in the middle of Australia’s biggest feud. This Australian duo are used to clashing in real life.” Surely it has to be one of Jackie’s feuding Housewives?
And we need: “A world champion. This sporting superstar has a strong social conscience.”
Is this the same person they are teasing as “camp leader”.

First challenge
They all have to test their “jungle skills” over three rounds. First up is a spin on the ole “stick your hand in the box of unknown stuff. Kerry and Simone are handed gloves to wear. Shannon is first and can’t see what it is but it’s scorpions. He has to thread a key on a string to go through Tiffs box She got frogs. Jackie got the cutest little hedgehogs and looks hilariously intense doing it. Josh gets some kind of African ant. Peter gets a bearded dragon.Simone a frog, Kerry cupcakes and jelly, Fiona baby crocs and BT a “striking snake” which does indeed give him a little nip.
BT is unable to complete the task in time, despite much encouragement from everyone and specific instructions from the hosts. I wish they’d given him the cupcakes. A medic checks out his bitten hand.
Next they lie on a giant Wheel of Fortune and have stuff poured on them if they get questions wrong. They did this last year, right? The celebs get everything from elephant poo to chicken intestines poured on them.
(I’ve just realised Simone has been cast because all the ex-Bachelor contestants have been snapped up for Bachie in Paradise, so no Laurina or Keira types this year. I don’t remember Simone being diva-ish on Top Model, though.)
The third part of the challenge is to crawl through a pitch black tunnel filled with leftover Halloween decorations to grab a letter to spell the word Celebrity within nine minutes, while a giant fan blows water at them.
Fiona’s five kids must be cracking up right now.

They arrive at camp and Pete reveals he smuggled in a frisbee taped to his back. He also dolls out chewed up portions of gum. Other contraband includes Simone’s makeup. After some shenanigans with “modesty smocks” for getting changed it’s revealed celeb No. 10 is camp leader and gets to sleep in a fancy bed.
**More to come***
(Sidenote: Gogglebox returns on Wednesday so if you missed the show tonight you can just watch it and get the two-minute highlights package.)
Kerry directs the cooking action and does a little blessing before they eat. Jackie tells Tiff she needs to release the psychic energy she’s absorbed by going to the toilet all the time. She then does a kind of psychic cleansing of the camp with a leaf while a stunned Fiona watches.

The camp leader is revealed and it’s one of the names that was thrown around earlier: Anthony Mundine.
He goes into the camp itself tomorrow. Hmm, who is he going to rub the wrong way first? Jackie or Fi?

So, what are your thoughts? Ok cast – fine to dip in and out of?



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