Using the word celebrity loosely I caught up with the new ‘Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls’ early today not an A-lister line-up but still I know most of them. I have a nasty streak in me that rather loves watching people suffer and are stretched passed their comfit zone.
Bear dropped them off not at the lovely beach spotted by former Olympian Iwan Thomas which he declared would be the new home but dropped them off on the outskirts of a mango swamp.
The ten celebrities enduring four weeks on the island are Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte, broadcaster Iwan Thomas, singer Jordan Stephens, comedian Mark Watson, and actor Ryan Thomas I hope they have what it takes to survive the ordeal. They are joined by reality star Lucy Mecklenburgh, presenter Sharron Davies, ex-Pussycat Doll Melody Thornton, comedian Shazia Mirza and TV doctor Sara Kayat.
Once they reached solid ground, Thomas took control. Then began the force-march through the dense bush in search of Shangri-La, the beach. He was not making many friends the Olympian but the beach was found and all were happy! For a while anyway.
At the beach, they swam sat about in the sun and talked a lot but didn’t build a shelter or succeed in making fire not the best of starts. There was talk of a shelter but there was a small tiff about falling coconuts. The doctor was worried about the water situation because most of it was used on reaching the beach but step forward alpha male (Thomas) who spies a big green tree in the distance and came up with the theory “Big green tree = water source” can’t remember that in science.
Thomas put together a foraging mission to the tree with former Coronation Street Ryan Thomas and singer who was one-half of Rizzie Kicks, Jordan something setting off in high hopes. They may have not found water but a very angry swarm of bees attacked them with Ryan coming out the worse and it was not his day as later he was rolling around in the sand screaming with, cramp.
No food and laying on palms was not ideal but seriously no one seem to understand the need for the basics mainly Thomas who seemed to have taken control, less time talking more time doing.
After the failure of the Thomas water expedition a number of the ladies in the group when for a stroll looking for water when comedian Shazia Mirza spotted animal tracks and figured out the tracks will lead to water. With the water now duly found. and celebration under way a fire was needed to make the water drinkable. There was still a lot to do with a wants list of shelter, fire, and food is still a fantasy.
Then the clouds darken, thunder in the distance and the islanders waited for rain. When it came, they had some sense to full their three jerry cans. Still no fire and with Prime Minister Thomas revived after some water he decides a raised bed should be the next project. The island comedian Shazia quick to point out at not enough were working on the fire but the revived Thomas shouted, “I’m calling this. We need everyone.”
Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte, chipped in on the subject of the fire but Thomas hit back saying we have water for tonight we don’t need fire now. After the work of getting the bed into position, the wood was rotten, the rain returns as night begins to fall, and it was cold.
Ryan gets a bit more action in the sand in the next episode with some good old fashion necking with reality star Lucy Mecklenburgh, are we on Love Island. In the outside world some viewers were shocked about the expletive language used by some of the Islanders someone counted them it could have been some newspaper researcher probably, 65 in total during the 44-minute episode.
That was Tuesday, we had a sneaky look of next week, it looked to have deteriorated, and I can wait.
It was a really funny watch and I would recommended it. Who wants to miss that, of course there is the Love Island angle with Ryan and Lacy, and will they do the dirty deed on TV. Will 10 become 9 or even less we will have to wait and see
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