Eating a spider alive isn’t entertainment – even on I’m a Celebrity | Jules Howard
by Jules Howard from on (#X1JX)
Seeing Ferne McCann chugging down a distressed animal made me, and 553 other people, pretty uncomfortable. Why is this deemed to be OK?
Another year of I'm a Celebrity is over and I find myself feeling increasingly sorry for the participants. I really do. It's hard for them. A flood of unrecognisable know-nothings thrown in to face the heat of the jungle. Barely fed and packed in like sardines. Out of their comfort zone. Burning up in the stage lights. You think I'm talking about the celebrities? No, no, no - it's the poor spiders I feel sorry for. I'm a Celebrity is more a show about spiders, and our attitude to them and their kind, than it is about seeing celebrities "beneath the makeup".
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