There wasn’t much to enjoy about the opening episode of ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here’, said Guy Kelly in The Telegraph. “But at least we could laugh at all the deposed Tory MPs who must have assumed they would be a shoo-in for a place in the camp.”

From Matt Hancock to Nigel Farageoffering politicians an opportunity to “wash their dignity by eating anus under the tutelage of December” has been the show’s “go-to trick” for years, said Kelly. The apparent absence of any such “Westminster-type” in the 2024 iteration was felt as a “failure” by the producers.

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