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Really wish that ITV hadn't put Farage in.
This is family viewing for us in the run up to Christmas. We want to see Vernon Kay, that bloke who plays Steve in Corrie and Jill Scott being likable people having a laugh. Not dicks like Farage.
Not sure that I can stomach him, but I'll give it a go.
Should have warmed up for Nigel by watching his news TV show prior to the main event 😉
I'm hoping he gets bitten by something early on and has to leave.
Yeah I’m conflicted but my youngest wants to watch it. It’s not the first time she’s heard me use the C word, but it could be the most in an hour.
I just hope that the Great British Public, bless ‘em, nominate the road-faced cockwomble for absolutely everything
Re Farage agree. What gets me, is the noise around how much he’s been paid. 1) how did he command that much and 2) why did they pay it. Nuts.
why did they pay it
Perhaps because they suspected that
the Great British Public, bless ‘em, nominate the road-faced cockwomble for absolutely everything
in which case they'll make the money back tenfold. "Text this number if you want to see Farridge be made to eat koala ringpieces," the mobile network will be like 11:59pm on New Year's Eve.
Personally, my money is on him suddenly having some sort of mystery illness and regrettably quitting after the first week.
“Nigel is exempt from this challenge due to medial grounds.”
I wonder if Keith and Linda are watching?
Quite funny that
Just say no to fun washing proto-fascists.
Thats how we ended up with Johnson and Rees-Mogg.
It's pissed me right off that he's on I'm a celebrity, and I won't be watching while that **** is on it.
I just hope that the Great British Public, bless ‘em, nominate the road-faced cockwomble for absolutely everything
Personally I'd just prefer if he got voted off the first chance people have!
I ****ing hate that ****. I hate his ****ing face!!!!
Just say no to fun washing proto-fascists.
X 1,000,000,000
Please.
Jeeze. Farage and some people that nobody in the house has ever heard of. Did all the budget go on him?
I won't be watching. Nothing to do with Farage, I just don't watch it.
but - if somehow they could mess up and finish off where the plane crash so manifestly failed (I'm thinking a spike, a ****ing dirty big spike) it would have the twin benefits of no more toad and the cancelling of some terrible telly.
Don't really watch TV, so will probably only see clips, but heard they paid him a fortune, and he has a caveat that he can't do any trials, seems a great bargain for ITV!
Rumour has it that Farage is doing this to try and bring himself back into popularity to try and get back into the Tory party, he thinks there's a good chance he'll be allowed back in to be part of the far right pushback on Sunak, Cameron, etc.
He’s watched Matt Hancock on it last year and thought wow that’s done so much for his public persona…..
Obviously not watched the interrogation scene on Celebrity SAS 😂
Nope, not watching that frog-faced, nicotine-stained fascist if you paid me
premium rate text votes.
free to vote on their app
Guess that opens you up to all sorts when you install it ?
Jeeze. Farage and some people that nobody in the house has ever heard of. Did all the budget go on him?
You’ve not heard of any of the others?
Not even Fred?
So you would watch it otherwise? heheh! it’s car crash TV for desperados
I have dipped in, in the past when bored, but yeah probably wouldn't actually watch it any way.
I sort of just like calling him a ****. Can't stand looking at his ****ing face though!!
It has actually upset me a bit that they've paid him a fortune to be on there.
The best thing for Farage would have been to never be voted to do a challenge and be the first voted off.
Giving him challenges is exactly what he wants. Being ignored and voted off would have been the best outcome.
ITV reporting he is receiving £1.5 million, the highest ever paid.
ITV reporting he is receiving £1.5 million, the highest ever paid.
I'm sure ITV have already done the maths, controversial twunt will bring new viewers in, even if it's just out of idle curiosity, or for meme material.
It's win/win for ITV.
I didn't watch it before as it's a puerileTV format (IMO), and I certainly won't watch it now, lol!
it would have the twin benefits of no more toad and the cancelling of some terrible telly.
I don’t like to wish ill on folk, but thats a real win win
Absolutely vile television.
He'll fit right in.
From that article:
No one, apart from Nigel Farage, is having a good time in Brexit Britain. No one he knows, anyway. The legacy of his pathetic, xenophobic crusade is food banks, rocketing homelessness, a mental health crisis, the poor getting poorer, psychotic home secretaries stirring up hatred, drug shortages, the squashing of our right to protest and god knows what else.
The minute they paid Hancock and Farage to allow them a political and personal platform ruined the light entertainment that was Celebrity was the programs ruination. <br /><br />
He'll get his Coutts account back now as well
how did he command that much
His first outing on Question Time was the largest viewing numbers after Nick Griffin's appearance. Make of that what you will.
I admit I like the show for the simple (brain switched off) entertainment and the A&D comments, but I am really struggling with the dilemma of giving F*****e (don't want to up the SM hits more than necessary) a mouthpiece to try and inveigle his way back into politics. 🙁
PS I like the article posted by Cougar!
mattyfez
So you would watch it otherwise? heheh! it’s car crash TV for desperados. Guaranteed ratings, and record numbers of premium rate text votes. It’s a win/win for the producers, no matter how you spin it.
Meh, my family normally watches it. Everyone knows it's not a quality show, it's just Butlins-tier brain-off easy viewing. You can get faux-invested in some z-listers who are only on the show as they're desperate to get back on the telly or pay a big tax bill, and not think about anything else for an hour.
Hancock spoiled last year, and I'm not watching this years. And **** ITV for giving him a redemption platform. Hope the prick gets trapped in a tank full of green ants for a few hours.
As much as i'd like to see Farage cuddling a Funnel Web, the whole thing can get in the sea.
I get that its a TV companies job to get eyeballs on the screen and that its almost impossible to debase a format that involves eating the reproductive organs of native fauna, but **** me, they have knocked it out the park this time.
Never forget who Farage is. He's Nick Griffin with a less awkward manner, a pinch of rhetorical flair and a nicer suit.
and a nicer suit.
Not last night. He wore classic private school army officer brat look.
We normally watch it in a brain dead kind of way. But not this year. The previous "fun washing fascists" comment is spot on. The only way to stop ITV putting scum like Farage on our screens is to simply not engage with it. Voting for him to undertake trials is just feeding the beast you want to get rid of.
I think it’s more that people want to see them get a stuffing live on telly rather than supporters tuning in.
I read that twice before I realised you were talking about QT rather than Celebrity.
Maybe I'm missing something, but surely that's the whole point of the show. People tune in to watch hateful people who they're vaguely aware of be put through torture for our own schadenfreude kicks.
I had to read that twice too.
People tune in to watch hateful people who they’re vaguely aware of be put through torture for our own schadenfreude kicks.
But the frog face **** has made himself exempt from the bush tucker trials.
Really? IDNKT.
Fire ants it is, then.
But the frog face **** has made himself exempt from the bush tucker trials.
Not exactly. Some of the physical stuff he's exempt from, because of long term issues from his plane crash but being locked in boxes and covered with stingy bitey things, or eating foul shite are all still fair game.
Oh, I've had an idea. Remember Big Brother's "bad" house?
Secretly fly Rigel to an entirely different island from the other contestants, drop him off and go "see ya." His rations are a crate of warm shandy, 200 B&H and no direct means of starting fire. I'd watch the shit out of that. You can have that one for free, ITV.
They're already getting good value for him, I normally wouldn't be able to tell you who was appearing on any series, but this is big news and everyone is talking about it.
No doubt everything he says or does will create many more articles and much more publicity too.
FU ITV.
I'm A Celebrity 2023: TV viewing figures fall by two million for opening show
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67449085
Not exactly. Some of the physical stuff he’s exempt from, because of long term issues from his plane crash but being locked in boxes and covered with stingy bitey things, or eating foul shite are all still fair game
TBH he's on a winner anyway £1.5 Million.....let that sink in.
Just the sort of pay you usual average normal person down the pub gets.
^^ Yep, true man of the people just trying to get by on a meager wage from his own TV show on GBN and the occasional 1.5£ bung from reality TV shows.
To heat or eat. The poor blighter.
I'm really mixed on this. The oxygen of publicity vs the disinfecting power of sunlight. Without a PR person there will he lose it and people see what he's actually like (don't we know already / will his support care?)
And £1.5M for a few days of minor discomfort and then voted off to deny him the limelight, or at least make him 'earn' it by eating every single testicle and anus on offer, being locked into every single coffin and covered with snakes, for as long as humanly possible.
^^ He has the Trump Factor. He could shoot someone and his supporters would still adore him.
Even knowing the pay he is getting for this, he'll still be seen as one of them, a common man as he hates the same people as they do.
That's all they need, a shared hatred.
He’s boring.
Oh Noes!
He's committed the one cardinal sin of being on reality telly, turning out to be dull... What a surprise 😮
TBH this is what our nation of morons deserve; Keep watching brainless shite and voting for little Hitlers? Don't be so shocked when the two 'cultural touchstones' converge and are predictably underwhelming...
Good, no challenge for him. Deprive him of coverage, vote him out. Sorted.
Fred for PM.
Despite clearly having a mid life crisis 😂
On the Farage thing, now he’s in I’m mixed. I don’t want to watch him or allow him a platform, but to vote him out now gets him 2.5 weeks in a luxury pap-free hotel in Australia, a holiday he of course hasn’t paid for. So keep him in at least to deny that.
Michael Palin one of our national treasures was asked on this morning's BBC breakfast, would he like to go into 'the jungle', his reply was "No, I'd have to eat Nigel Farage", this made me laugh a lot.
It's all part of his long term plan. Come across like a "reasonable" human being by being supportive to hysterical Z Listers, eat the occasional anus themed pizza, get himself into the Conservative Party, get up the leadership structure, do horrible Nazi shit.
Starts off like a bit of a laugh. Ends up dangerous.
Never watched I'm a Celebrity in my life before, is there a highlights programme where i can do nothing but watch Farage eat sh*te and not have to watch any of the rest of it?
Despite clearly having a mid life crisis
It’ll make him even more popular here.
What I hate is the way producers are willing to financially endorse a (at best) divisive, self-serving xenophobe just for the sake of a few viewing figures.
They seemingly put him on TV to give the public "a laugh" but don't care about the message that sends out.
Sod it. Might as well just put Tommy Robinson on 8 out of 10 cats and have done.
get himself into the Conservative Party, get up the leadership structure, do horrible Nazi shit.
TBH without any interest in being a nazi and just riding what sells.
I doubt he has any convictions to anything other than the next grift.
Sod it. Might as well just put Tommy Robinson on 8 out of 10 cats and have done.
Probably being signed up for next year.
TBH i'm expecting Andrew Tate and Phillip Schofield to end up there in the next few years.
At least updates on this thread mean I don't have to watch it
I could be your father....
I’m going to sleep on that.
Can't be doing with Nutella.
Farage admits he's worked out that the challenges are 25% of airtime hence is disappointed not to be voted for it, Showing his true lizard slime ball shameless motivation for being there.
The producers should kick him back to the UK immediately.
The producers should kick him back to the UK immediately.]
Anthrax island.
Sod it. Might as well just put Tommy Robinson on 8 out of 10 cats and have done.
That would be freakin hilarious!
I am casualy morbidly interested but I won't watch on general principal.
I'll watch by proxy on here and other forums....any good memes come out yet?
Approaching the end of page 2 and not a single mention of anyone else who's in the show this year.
And we're all wondering why they gave him a wedge? That's why. He's worth more to them in publicity than the rest of the "celebrities" combined.
@Cougar Grace Dent is one of the other celebrities. I'm sure there's others but for some reason I'm slightly obsessed by her.
I googled the list. I haven't heard of any of them aside from our Dominar Nigel XVI here. Reality TV types, soap stars, daytime TV presenters, people who are best known for being related to or shagged by someone famous, etc.