Celebrity US pouting princess to be added to Australia's top 10 deadly creatures list?

TV audiences have been glued to their flat panel screens watching ITVs annual smash-hit reality TV show “I’m a celebrity get me out of here” which is filmed live in the sweaty confines of an Australian tropical jungle set.

This year's show has not disappointed with a first for Celebrity with a real-life love-triangle adding extra spice to the usual assortment of rodents and creepy crawlies not forgetting the insects and spiders which aren't very nice either.

The format of the show remains uncomplicated, in order to survive the contestants (victims would perhaps be more appropriate) are set daily challenges and the rules of the game are quite simple: Win the challenges and the camp gets to get to eat a decent meal - lose and they have to make do with meagre rations of rice and beans.

However, winning is easier said that done when would be contestants such as the self proclaimed ‘first ever US supermodel’ Janice Dickinson was early on in the proceedings given two stomach churning tasks of eating a Kangaroo’s penis and a live Witchity Grub.

Perhaps not surprisingly Janice declined both the Kangaroo penis and the Witchity Grub. Luckily for the rest of the camp and her, celebrity chef and love-rat John Burton-Race was on hand to devour both delicacies - to the absolute amazement of many the Michelin Star chef appeared to enjoy the latter, saying it tasted like an Oyster.



This is what a gruesome Witchity Grub looks like.


Without any shadow of a doubt though one of the biggest surprises of this year’s Celebrity has been the performance of the hitherto largely unknown Dickinson who has managed to remain in the camp while well known British stars as John Burton-Race and former soccer star Rodney Marsh have been voted off the show. However, while the pouting princess won over some of her jungle inmates, others have had difficulty working out Janice.

Burton-Race and Marsh got along fine with the former supermodel. Others, particularly the women in the camp have really struggled at times, not least because the pouting diva has a tongue every bit as venomous as a jungle viper. Some might even argue that Dickinson could be added to Australia’s top ten most deadly creatures list (see below).

Early on in the competition Janice made the mistake of letting the British voting public know that she wasn’t enjoying being chosen to face the awful challenges - this only served to make things a whole lot worse for the US babe - as it resulted in viewers voting in droves for Dickinson. To her credit and up to this point, Dickinson has taken part in nine challenges and has been successful in most of them.

Life in the jungle has certainly been no bed of roses having to put up with the hunger, the daily challenges and living so close to snakes in the grass, not to mention the remaining male contestants as well as the spiders. For these reasons the former US model is doing just fine. So well in fact that according to the latest bookmakers odds Dickinson could go on to win the competition.

Over the course of the last couple of weeks the initial group of celebs has been gradually whittled down as the public vote to decide which contestants should stay in the camp and who should be evicted, with the unlucky stars being packed off to live in the lap of luxury for a few days in a five-star hotel until the show is over.

The show is filmed live deep in the tropical Australian jungle, this year the set it’s believed to be located north of Cairns in Queensland.

Quick Facts on Queensland at a glance:

Climate:
In the North: Tropical to sub-tropical. In the South: Sub-tropical.

Location:
North East corner of Australia
Coordinates between 10º & 29º South latitude 138º and 154º East longitude

Age profile:
The media age of the 3.8 million population is 35.5 years old.
AreaQueensland is the second largest state in Australia.

Economy:
Queensland has the fastest growing economy in Australia.

State's capital city, Brisbane:
In 2004 Brisbane, was voted World's 8 Best Cities to live in by the Economist Intelligence Unit survey
Size 1,730,648 km²


Australia's top ten dangerous creatures:
1. The Box Jellyfish
2. Irukandji (A Jellyfish)
3. Salt Water Crocodile
4. Blue Ring Octopus
5. Stone Fish
6. Red Back Spider
7. Brown Snake
8. Tiger Snake
9. Great White Shark
10.Funnel Web Spider

Quick facts on Queensland supplied by BigEasy Travel Guide.com

Marco Pierre White - a very scary man?

Marco Pierre White and the Undertaker, two scary looking men with eyes that could kill...

This week the nation's tv schedules have been dominated by cooking related programmes, we've had BBC2s Kitchen Criminals in which the likeable top chef John Burton Race has been trying to make decent cooks out of people who hitherto couldn't boil an egg. It has been interesting, if not riveting tv so far.

We've also been subjected to another reality tv cooking show on BBC2 The Restaurant. Raymond Blanc and his top team of restauranteur empolyees are the judges in a competition in which couples are pitted against each other to win their own restaurant and in doing so they will become business partners with the top French chef.

The Restaurant's format is slightly different from other similar realilty tv shows of the cooking genre, in that Blanc and his top team really do test all aspects of the competing couples skill-sets. Everything from restaurant management, marketing, budgeting and cooking is tested thoroughly and quite entertaining The Restaurant has been too.

In last night's episode the extremely annoying Jacqui and Sam were thankfully turfed off, largely because of their appalling grasp of the numbers.

While The Restaurant has the makings of a decent pot-boiler, ITVs Hells Kitchen has been grabbing all the headlines, not least because there's a new head chef in the rather scary form of Michelin star chef Marco Pierre White.

Hells Kitchen's former head chef Gordon Ramsay, was apparently once reduced to tears by White. However, Marco says he didn't force Gordon to cry, 'it was Gordon's decision to cry'...

Ramsay has a somewhat confrontational management style in his tv shows, he's all too often foul-mouthed, often when shouting down his subordinates within his 'brigade'.

Marco Pierre White has an altogether different management style in the kitchen and while he has sinister looks that could curdle fresh milk and send your blood cold in the blink of an eye. The contrast between White and Ramsay is marked.

Everyone in the Hells Kitchen apparently loves White. For this reason I've been wondering if the Hells Kitchen bosses might be encouraging Marco to turn on the frighteners in bid to get nasty in the remaining days of the competition.

White could easily stand in for the WWE's undertaker, he possess similar scary looks, but in this reality TV show he's something of a big pussy-cat.

24 Latest: Bill is BACK + Production delay

Right after telling the world that he wouldn't be returning for Season 7, it appears the silver fox of CTU - Bill Buchanon - will now be returning to the hit series. And he's understandably very happy about it. On his personal website, actor James Morrison says:

"I'm going to back to the show after all. And I'm very happy about it. I'll let you know more when I can."

Great news out there for all Bill fans.

Also, production has been delayed until the back end of September while the producers tweak the scripts even further.

In other news, Gary Oldman has allegedly turned down a role in the show due to a scheduling clash. His agent however has decided to keep the door open by refusing to rule out the story. Interestingly, Oldman and Kiefer Sutherland are old drinking buddies and actually share an arrest.......

Best. News. Ever: Michael is Back For Lost Season 4!!!

Smashing news from Comic Con as the Lost producers unveiled Harold Perrineau to Lost Fanatics as it was announced the character of Michael Dawson is coming back as a series regular.

Michael left the island at the end of Season 2 after striking a deal with The Others to allow him and son Walt safe passage off the island - in exchange for betraying 4 of his closest friends. The news that fans have been waiting for is now in as Michael makes his long awaited comeback to this wonderful show.

It was not confirmed whether Michael will just appear in flashbacks and flash forwards but his status as a regular would indicate he will see action on the island. We predict and hope that Michael will be made to face the music on the island. Which begs the question of whether The Others really let him and Walt escape in the first place.

Interestingly no news on Walt's current status - he popped up in the Season 3 finale (seemingly as an illusion) but his return will depend very much on the storyline. Despite the actor's aging and growth spurt, we really hope they bring back this character - arguably one of the most important in the whole show due to his unique abilities and understanding of the island.

Other news from Comic Con:

- We will see a Danielle Rousseau flashback - Yay!

- This season will see a mixture of flashforwards and flashbacks.

- Libby's story will be completed.

- Jack and Claire's relationship will be explored further - it has been strongly hinted they share the same father.

- The ending of the season 3 finale (Jack and Kate) will not be the ending of the entire show - there is more to come following Jack's apparent breakdown.

- There is some major trouble heading for the island - the newcomers will make The Others look like 'humanitarians.'

As you can probably we are very excited about these developments - watch this space for more news as it arrives!

Aaron Pierce Return + 24 Moves To DC!

Interesting news emanating from Comic Con this week where the shows executive producers fielded questions from the show's hardcore fan base.

Here's the headlines:

- CTU has been disbanded by the government and will play no role in Season 7. It is likely to be replaced by a branch of the FBI.

- The L.A. setting has been dropped and the entire series will play out in Washington DC.

- Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brien are the only confirmed returnees. The show will feature it's 'freshest' cast ever.

- Very strong of chance of Glen Morshower reprising his role as Aaron Pierce (above left) for Season 7. Great News!

- Producers refuse to confirm whether either Tony Almeida, Charles Logan or Wayne Palmer are actually dead. Keep watching is the message.

- An alternative ending to Season 6 was considered - featuring Tony Almedia. The idea was for Tony to confront Jack at the Heller Beach House as Jack was over looking the cliff. This could be a clear indicator from the show makers that they believe Tony can be brought back plausibly.

- They wanted to cast Donald Sutherland (Kiefer's father) as Philip Bauer but couldn't strike a deal.

- Jack Bauer will be forced to defend his actions over the years in front the Senate Commitee. This blogger believes this could lead to cameo's for other supporting characters to give evidence for or against Jack.

- Chase Edmonds is definitely not coming back to the show.

Overall interesting news without giving us anything major. We we're hoping for some more casting news but the powers that be are clearly playing their cards close to their chests. With some luck the deal to bring back Aaron Pearce will happen which would be sensational news for hardcore fans.

Another New President in 24 + Kim Wants In!

Interesting news coming out of 24 this week - a new president has been cast for Day 7 and by golly it's a women - just as we predicted on these pages.

The woman in the frame is Cherry Jones who had a small role in Ocean's 12. It does now look like the 24 team are looking to do a Hillary Clinton-esque portrayl.

Politically on the show this is an interesting situation which needs to address a few loose ends.

1. Is she a Democrat or Republican? One would presume Republican (mainly because on Day 6 the Democrats were in power and surely either Wayne Palmer or Noah Daniels would be in the boxseat). However, there is the possibly, that if Daniels did replace Wayne, then the new Pres could have won a leadership contest between her and Daniels. There is also the interesting question if they could cast a women as the leader of the Republican party (a nigh on impossible development in real life).

2. Wayne Palmer - did he die? We need to know, we've lost one Palmer already on this show and if they don't give us some clarity on Wayne's situation I'll be P.O'ed.

3. Daniels - again some clarity on his removal from office would be nice.

4. Heller/Novick - if the new President of the United States is Republican then what odds for James Heller and Mike Novick to return. Heller has unfinished business with Jack Bauer in my opinion and a season of 24 is always better when Novick is involved. I missed both characters in Day 6, Heller's cameos were great but he should have been given more to do and a Republican cabinet could bring these two back into the fold.

5. President's head of security - the Bring Back Special Agent Aaron Pearce campaign starts here. With any luck Martha has topped herself and the big guy can get back to doing what he does best - kicking ass.

6. Charles Logan - again, simple question - dead or alive?

While all the talk is of a brand new cast minus Jack and the tedious Chloe, all the above characters would be more than welcome back in my opinion.

One return that could happen, which would be brilliant, is that of Kim Bauer. Elisha Cuthbert has revealed she'd love to come back, but one expects it may be for the movie.

"I'll be waiting by the phone, I'm ready whenever they are. I love the show so much!"

Message to the powers that be: Make it happen.

New Pres - Click here.

Kim Comeback - Click here

Thank-you Gerry Much

No surprise from this past Friday's Big Brother eviction a seriel manhater/moaner and all round BB Bore Nicki Maxwell got the boot.

She was up against token camp bloke Gerry The Greek who in reality stood little chance of being booted out.

The action over the last seven days has predictably focused on Charley, who in a stroke of genius bordering on Machiavellian proportions, managed to convince her fellow dullards that she was worshipped by the Great British public. Unsurpisingly, 'Mugs R' Us, her fellow housemates, fell for the play hook line and sinker - and as a result were too afraid to nominate the South Islington IT girl. To her credit the devious plan was executed very quickly and somewhat convincingly and this sterling piece of con-artistry may even save her for another week. Sadly the 'my cousin plays for Man United' routine will have to be dropped on her eventual exit, as her Kieran Richardson, the poor beggar who is related to this freak, has been shipped off to the all together less glamourous, ahem, Sunderland. One wonders if Ziggy and friends will as impressed with the hospitality seats at the Stadim of Shite as they would have been by promises of all expenses paid tickets to Old Trafford.....

Meanwhile, Ziggy and Channelle's on/off romance has cumulated in a cold shower together and reports in the media suggest his Ziggyness has a 'secret girlfriend' in the 'outside world.' The Yorkshire Terrier will not like that when she finds out.

Other highlights of the week include a stand up row between good old Brian and, you guessed it, Charley. As if things couldn't get worse for Bri, after a row with his former friend, he was then treated to a hair cut more ridiculous than his previous one.

Wit of the week has to go to the fan with the 'Brian Storm' sign at Fridays's live eviction- see what they did there....

William Hill are tipping the #1 Essex Boy to romp home the contest with his odds now standing at 1/2 on. If the dumbass thing is an act then he has played a blinder. If it's not then he's gonna need the prize money. All of it.

Go Brian!