I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! (2002– ) User Reviews (39)

have the good times gone?

[gilleliath · 7/10 · 22 November 2019]

The godfather of celebrity reality shows returns, and it still gets the best billing (prime time ITV) because it's the funniest, and most fun. There's another 'so what' set of celebs, but - like Strictly - the show has shown it can handle that. The secret to its success is everybody's favourite Hiberno-Geordies, Ant and Dec.

You might have expected the show to feel refreshed, then, after Ant (or Dec)'s hiatus last year; but personally I think something has gone that won't return. Maybe his mugging is now genuinely more desperate and cynical; maybe the unwanted insight into his private life just makes it seem that way. But where Dec (or Ant) still manages to convince with the cheeky schoolboy act they've been doing since PJ and Duncan, on the other side of the platform his partner (whichever one it is) is starting to seem just a little bit creepy.

That matters because good nature is the show's keynote; yes it makes people look daft but it never humiliates them, and it's usually the good natured that win it. Admittedly, the days of Jordan and Our Kerry, who had long if troubled careers off the back of it, seem to be over. The TV world has realised that there isn't much it can do with these people after they have thus refreshed their fame; few have any talent except being themselves; at best, they go on to co-host one of I'm A Celeb's own spin-off shows. And now Charlotte thingy has been dropped from Saturday Night Takeaway: Ant and Dec, how could you?

Reaching the end of it's life cycle!

[mjw2305 · 6/10 · 9 November 2022]

I have enjoyed a few seasons where people in the camp fail to win stars and the camp goes hungry and gets irate. It's makes the people watching format an enjoyable ride. But I have to say that in recent years the trials just seem too easy!

Season 22. Episode 2 is a great example of this!

Babatunde was, of course, voted in to do the trial after failing to complete his first trial due to his fear of heights!

The guy was clearly terrified and really took his time on the trial, yet still got all the stars! Fair play to him for facing his fears, but if the trial was easy enough him to complete it at a snails pace, then it was too easy!

It is like the producers want everyone to complete the trials with all the stars regardless of their fears!

Sadly, completing all the trials and keeping the camp well fed strips away the tension in the camp and it just becomes boring to watch!

2 days in camp and Chris Moyles is already giving away food claiming that his is full!

We need some angst in the show or it will just become too dull to watch.

At it's best, it can be a great show, but in recent years i haven't got past week one because of the ease of the trials.

I'm Not A Celebrity......Thank The Lord.

[debsified · 5/10 · 18 November 2006]

This successful reality TV format first attracted high viewing figures in the U.K back in 2002 (when Tony Blackburn was crowned the first "king of the jungle"). Since then, a further half dozen U.K series have attracted increasingly higher viewing figures and the format's been adopted both in the U.S and in Germany.

It's essentially Celebrity Big Brother in a more interesting location, with more challenging tasks as a result of this change of setting. Instead of a house and garden with futuristic furniture, a dozen celebrities (of varied/no acclaim - another tongue in cheek draw) are paid a minimum of about £20K to spend a few weeks in an Australian jungle that's had all deadly venomous elements removed beforehand.

Apathetic couch potatoes watch the whole show and extras avidly. People with more get-up-and-go only turn "mute" off for Ant n' Dec's barely rehearsed links (not a criticism - they're often funny) and the real ratings winner - the bushtucker trial. Once they run out of decent variations for the latter (suggestedly soon if rehashed tasks in the current series are anything to go by), the show will struggle to be recommissioned.

Animal cruelty garbage

[pindy-57708 · 1/10 · 26 January 2021]

Watch Australian survivor then watch this.... Cheap "celebrities" pitted against pet bugs for no reason 🤦 Just awful to watch, girlfriend has it on and the trapped animals are starting to irritate her too. Just an awful idea from a long time ago that still tries to claw on to claiming money 👎

Pointless vacuous stuff that aims for the tabloid headlines every day at the expense of decency and restraint

[bob the moo · 27 December 2005]

I'm not a real fan of celebrity shows just because I find the scramble for fame to often be quite distasteful and heavy with the smell of desperation. Likewise I'm not a big fan of "reality" shows because, although many are framed as being "helpful" most of the them actually draw their audience in with the promise of mocking or degrading those taking part; a look at Big Brother's exit shows will demonstrate what reality shows are about – almost everybody gets booed, meaning that the majority watch it to dislike the people and gossip about them. So when I'm A Celebrity started I gave it as much of a wide berth as I could but the influence and viewing habits of various partners and flatmates meant I have ended up watching bits and pieces of several series.

And I have to be honest and say that at best I'm unimpressed while at worst I'm impressed by how desperate some people are to get a boost of fame. We often wonder what we would do for money ("would you do x for a thousand pounds") but on this show we find out that some people will eat bugs and be covered in snakes or rats for the promise of several hundred thousand pounds. The basic idea of the show is that the celebrities stay in a forest clearing with so much technology crammed into it to watch them that even the monkeys must have headsets on. Here they bicker, fight and flirt while a section of the population that rely totally on the Sun and the Mirror for their news gossip and titter along. Each night we get a challenge and the public vote for who takes part.

Normally the trials are pretty horrible and they take pleasure in degrading the celebs, safe in the knowledge that most of them will do whatever it takes to get the headlines the next day. It is all quite grubby and unpleasant and for many of the trials I just left the room feeling rather concerned about what passes for entertainment these days. The inane relationships and personalities I can cope with but the fascination with degrading people is not something I particularly like.

Regardless though, like all the "best" (and by best I mean popular) reality and celeb shows, I'm A Celebrity is made or broken by the tabloids and for that reason alone it will always play up anything it can. As a result the real people get lost in the edit, fights are brought to the fore and bugs are chewed while vomit is choked back. Overall this is a pointless vacuous affair which, for that reason, draws a crowd happy with just that. I would grumble on about how this is a new low, but with the way things are generally headed a newer low would probably have been hit on television before I'd even finished writing this sentence. Ah well, give the people what they want I suppose, but I personally want no part of it.

I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

[jboothmillard · 10/10 · 11 May 2005]

This is probably the second best reality show I know (after Big Brother). They put ten-twelve celebrities and dump them in the middle of an Australian jungle, there is a camp where they eat and sleep. Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly host this show, and they also tell the celebrities who is doing the special Bushtucker trials and who is leaving, and make good gags. They have had some good celebrities, but most of the time we don't know them, they just want to boost their careers. They have had: Siân Lloyd, Christine Hamilton, Uri Gellar, Nell McAndrew, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, winner Tony Blackburn, Daniella Westbrook, Toyah Willcox, Anthony Worrall Thompson, John Fashanu, winner Phil Tufnell, Jordan (Katie Price) and Peter Andre (who are now married), Johnny "Rotten" Lydon, Jennie Bond, winner Kerry Katona (McFadden), Natalie Appleton, Paul Burrell, winner Joe Pasquale, David Dickinson, Jimmy Osmond, Sid Owen, Sheree Murphy, winner Carol Thatcher, Toby Anstis, Jason Donovan, David Gest, Myleene Klass, winner Matt Willis and many more. Jordan (Katie Price) was number 2 on The 100 Worst Britons, the programme was number 40 on The 100 Greatest Funny Moments, it was number 6 on ITV: 50 Greatest Shows, and it has been on all 100 Greatest TV Treats programmes so far. Outstanding!

The jungle

[studioAT · 6/10 · 27 November 2017]

Yes, the people that go into 'the jungle' aren't always technically celebs, but that doesn't mean to say they aren't by the time they come out.

Come November ITV pretty much turn their evening entertainments slots over to 'I'm a Celeb' and are rarely disappointed. It's a long running reality show that hasn't gone stale (take note X Factor) and that's largely because although the format is always the same roughly, the personalities of the celebs going in shake things up each time.

It is of course always held together by the wonderful Ant and Dec, who rightly win awards for it every year.

It's not exactly high brow entertainment, but entertaining it always is

Absolutely love it!

[waterspray-57-788328 · 8/10 · 26 June 2018]

What are people's problems? This show is great! Watching celebrities from your favourite soap operas, YouTube Channels, pop bands and reality shows eating bugs and crawling through dark tunnels of rats, as well as there being drama, team spirit and more in camp just forms a great family show. Getting an insight into the celebrities' lives as well as seeing them take on challenges that either fill us with adrenaline or make us cringe while watching, just makes a great hour of entertainment.

I'm a Z-Lister! Get me some publicity!

[ClaChrstph · 1/10 · 8 December 2007]

I'll point out now that the only reason it gets one star is because there's not an option for no stars on the form. It's disgraceful that TV companies are allowed to air shows like this and Big Brother. I fail to see how ANYONE can find it in the slightest bit entertaining. It used to be that as a celebrity approached the end of their 'time in the sun' they'd bow out with dignity instead of clutching at straws trying to keep their already dead career afloat. If you like watching this sort of thing then good for you, but this barely even classes as so-called 'reality TV'. It's about time TV producers abandoned shows like this.

Waste of airtime.

NIGEL Farage

[valerierobbie · 10/10 · 28 November 2023]

If you do not like this celebrity, then you can vote for him in the jungle to do trials, which I must add he does without complaining, perhaps that is why. I'm fed up with all the negative comments not only from people in the camp and Ant and Dec. The man deserves a chance like anyone else whether you like him or not. I would like to see all the complainers do some of the trials, some hope. I really love this show but do not like the back biting which the show unfortunately thrives on, how sad. We put up with Rudeness and back biting, let's have a little compassion. Well done Sam we love you, you are bringing sunshine into the camp, we'll done.

Disrespectful towards animals - shame on the producers and cast

[kateszabat · 1/10 · 9 January 2021]

I cannot understand how this TV show got an approval to go ahead. Treating animals like things which one should be disgusted by.

Ant, Dec, Holly, producers, participants - shame on you...

Repulsive and boring

[DavidYZ · 1/10 · 17 April 2017]

Why do millions of people watch this junk?! It's one of the worst shows on British television. The 'celebrities' are usually desperate people who either used to be famous and are trying to make a comeback - or are Z-listers who are trying to become famous. Most of them are dull or narcissistic and are not entertaining to watch. The tasks often involve eating animal genitalia.

Conglomerate of imbeciles

[valentinmh · 1/10 · 27 November 2020]

That's how your life is flowing...from dumb to decrepit and pointless...this show is ZERO

Joke of a programme drawn out and done with.

[callumludlow · 1/10 · 2 December 2021]

What is your selection process... absolute joke we know your paying them to be overdramatic otherwise you need to sort out your cast garuntee 2021 is the least vewiers you have ever had😄 time to end this💩💩 excuse of a show.

Yawn

[quadrophenia-69524 · 1/10 · 25 November 2021]

This programme is just past it's sell by date now and it's not in a jungle for the past two episodes and ant and Dec are just not funny maybe when they first started in the programmne but now they just come across as unfunny and could do with being replaced or the programne should just be shelved.

just not funny anymore.

[stehartley · 3/10 · 11 November 2022]

This used to be a pretty half decent show, when there were actual celebritys on and they were genuine. The confrontations and arging was real and so was the humour and laughter. Now the show is full of non celebritys and everything seems so fake and forced. Ant and dec need to be put out to pasture, their school yard humour just isnt funny anymore. Everyone is so afraid of social media that they just tow the party guidelines, make assinine comments, childish jokes and over the top and fake reactions to every situation in the hope of boosting their media profile. Long gone are the days when celebrity actual meant being famous.

I've Seen Worse. I Just Don't Remember When

[kpassa · 1/10 · 9 December 2021]

We tuned into this show to see what Danny Miller was up to after leaving Emmerdale. He left for this??? It was so agonizingly bad Danny Miller could promise to personally deliver pizza to our house and we wouldn't watch it again. Tabloid TV at its worst.

How Far Will People Go To Boost Their 'Celebrity?'

[bs3dc · 25 March 2007]

You marvel at how desperate some of the contestants must be to perform in this degrading and humiliating spectacle that they gamely undergo in order to get themselves on the front pages of the tabloids.

Originally the format sounded a bit more interesting the the 'Big Brother' format where they sit around in a house all day moaning and swearing. Unfortunately the participants in this sit around in a jungle all day, moaning, swearing... and eating creepy-crawlies. Hardly any noticeable difference.

I suppose it does work for some of the contestants who manage to resurrect their careers (and not necessarily the winners) such as the intensely irritating Joe Pasquale who is now bizarrely popular again, Peter Andre is now famous for being Jordan's husband, and Kerry Katona... least said about those dreadful supermarket adverts the better. I could go on, but most of the contestants have failed to drag themselves out of the obscurity in which they have sunk.

I was turned off of this programme right from the start, but I was persuaded to attempt another viewing by some obsessed friends - a couple of minutes watching someone eat live insects, grubs and then a kangaroo's testicle all the while trying not to vomit confirmed that it was not the show for me. The inane presentation by the two most overrated 'personalities' - Ant and Dec - on television at the moment did little to improve things. The formula is the same as all other reality shows with the group dynamic purposefully engineered to create tension between contestants while the producers appear outraged at any physical conflict. The people chosen seem to fit the same pattern as well, with there always being an out-spoken loudmouth one and a busty woman who has little to offer except looking good in a bikini, etc.

However with healthy viewing figures it is hard to criticise ITV1 for giving the public what they want, as quality drama costs around £800,000 an hour and would not guarantee many more viewers these days. The revenue generated by voting must go some way to plugging the gaping hole left by decreasing advertising revenues. It is hardly any wonder they churn out series after series.

Not a programme I care for personally but it certainly has its fans and it is hardly surprising due to the culture in Britain at the moment where the only ambition people seem to have is to be famous without much regard as to how it happens.

Too many adverts

[jamie-77992 · 1/10 · 4 December 2020]

Not really a review as I could not put up with the number of adverts I couldn't be bothered to watch it.

No celebs

[FilmHog88 · 4/10 · 19 October 2019]

This used to be good but I can't say it is now. They have people on who consider themselves 'celebs' but they're nothing more than infamous reality TV show guests who have been on telly once and think they're famous. They also have to have their token attractive lass on there just to get the viewers up, it's a shame. Gone so down hill. All the trials have been done before and they can't come up with anything new

Not Really Worth The Hype

[Theo Robertson · 13 May 2003]

Sticking a bunch of C list celebrities out in the jungle seems to be a good idea on paper but is ruined by the idea of not keeping them there for ever . But what really annoyed me about the show is the amount of coverage it got in newspapers and the breakfast television shows . Everytime you opened a British tabloid newspaper you`d find several pages dedicated to the storm in a tea spoon that was the previous night`s edition . Same when you watched GMTV in the morning , the presenters would be interviewing the previous night`s loser every 15 minutes . Getting too much of a good thing is one thing , getting too much of a fairly bad thing is quite another

Of the votes cast Tony Blackburn was probably the deserved winner because he didn`t whine and moan ( Unlike the rest of contestants ) and never talked behind everyone else`s back ( Christine Hamilton did this all the time - Thank gawd the tories are out of power ) , but from a purely hetrosexist point of view I thought Nell McAndrew deserved to win since she spent much of her time there dressed in a bikini

I`ve just seen the second series . The novelty wears off very quickly

Going through the motions

[roberthannan · 3/10 · 8 December 2019]

This show has had it's day and that day was December 3rd 2012. It really is lazy formulaic TV & it's obscene that these semi celebrities walk away with massive amounts of money for the chance to take their families on a 5 star luxury holiday. Call it a day now please

Get Me Out Of The Room When This Is On TV

[carolynocean · 1/10 · 12 December 2021]

So we have a bunch of "celebrities" who are looking to make quick and easy money , They don't do anything, just sit around , and gush over each other , and bang on about how well they are all " bonding " , and forming frienships for the rest of their lives , please spare me the bull !

As soon as they are out of there with a nice fat bank balance they will never see each other again , nor want to !

Ant and Dec deliver their usual forced, scripted "jokes", while the crew try their best at laughing , (must be a clause in their contract that says they have to laugh ) This show is way past it's sell by , with tired presenters, and desperate ,attention seeking people who are obviously willing to do anything for money and 15 minutes of 'fame'

I'm OUT.

IM A HAS BEEN, GET ME OUT OFF AIR!

[zanzibarslimm · 2/10 · 23 November 2020]

Usual 'post-reality' TV with pre set up, mic'd up interactions. 2020 is so much worse being set in a restored, private castle in Wales. I suppose its aimed at the Daytime TV demographic so ill be a at least 3 decades late to the pop culture to remember why the "celebrities" were ever famous in the first place. "Challenges" worthy of after school game shows, nothing else worth thinking about. Big no.