[Apologies if the site’s a bit slow at the moment, not sure why, hopefully it will sort itself in the fullness of time].<\/p>\n
This week I’m a Celeb<\/strong> did its 300th Bushtucker Trial. I’ve often said this, but I genuinely think IAC has one of the best task teams in the business constantly coming up with slightly different ways to dress up the same three tasks over and over (get covered in bugs, put body part in bugs, eat bugs) with the occasional height task for variety. It must be a nightmare, especially when the celebs (completely reasonably) decide they then don’t want to do it. The Dingo Dollar Challenges, which are often inventive and fun, must be a more fun to come up with.<\/p>\n I often wonder if the punchline is always 5,000 cockroaches whether you get immured to it. I’m perfectly happy not to find out.<\/p>\n Anyway they’ve come a long way since they started, the first series trials back in the heady days of 2002 seem so quaint, including as they do “chasing pigs around” and “grabbing stars whilst riding a bucking bronco”, and in the days before earpieces were invented Ant and Dec had to time them using an actual stopwatch.<\/p>\n