His first outing on Question Time was the largest viewing numbers after Nick Griffin’s appearance. Make of that what you will.

I think it’s more that people want to see them get a stuffing live on telly rather than supporters tuning in.

We normally watch it in a brain dead kind of way. But not this year. The previous “fun washing fascists” comment is spot on. The only way to stop ITV putting scum like Farage on our screens is to simply not engage with it. Voting for him to undertake trials is just feeding the beast you want to get rid of.

I think it’s more that people want to see them get a stuffing live on telly rather than supporters tuning in.

I read that twice before I realised you were talking about QT rather than Celebrity.

Maybe I’m missing something, but surely that’s the whole point of the show. People tune in to watch hateful people who they’re vaguely aware of be put through torture for our own schadenfreude kicks.

I had to read that twice too.

People tune in to watch hateful people who they’re vaguely aware of be put through torture for our own schadenfreude kicks.

But the frog face **** has made himself exempt from the bush tucker trials.

Really? IDNKT.

Fire ants it is, then.

But the frog face **** has made himself exempt from the bush tucker trials.

Not exactly. Some of the physical stuff he’s exempt from, because of long term issues from his plane crash but being locked in boxes and covered with stingy bitey things, or eating foul shite are all still fair game.

Oh, I’ve had an idea. Remember Big Brother’s “bad” house?

Secretly fly Rigel to an entirely different island from the other contestants, drop him off and go “see ya.” His rations are a crate of warm shandy, 200 B&H and no direct means of starting fire. I’d watch the shit out of that. You can have that one for free, ITV.

They’re already getting good value for him, I normally wouldn’t be able to tell you who was appearing on any series, but this is big news and everyone is talking about it.

No doubt everything he says or does will create many more articles and much more publicity too. 

because of long term issues from

being a privileged, professional grifter?

I think every reader here knows what Garage’s long-term issues are and it has the square root of **** all to do with aircraft.

FU ITV.

I’m A Celebrity 2023: TV viewing figures fall by two million for opening show

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67449085

Not exactly. Some of the physical stuff he’s exempt from, because of long term issues from his plane crash but being locked in boxes and covered with stingy bitey things, or eating foul shite are all still fair game

TBH he’s on a winner anyway £1.5 Million…..let that sink in.

Just the sort of pay you usual average normal person down the pub gets.

^^ Yep, true man of the people just trying to get by on a meager wage from his own TV show on GBN and the occasional 1.5£ bung from reality TV shows.

To heat or eat. The poor blighter.

I’m really mixed on this. The oxygen of publicity vs the disinfecting power of sunlight. Without a PR person there will he lose it and people see what he’s actually like (don’t we know already / will his support care?)

And £1.5M for a few days of minor discomfort and then voted off to deny him the limelight, or at least make him ‘earn’ it by eating every single testicle and anus on offer, being locked into every single coffin and covered with snakes, for as long as humanly possible.

^^ He has the Trump Factor. He could shoot someone and his supporters would still adore him.

Even knowing the pay he is getting for this, he’ll still be seen as one of them, a common man as he hates the same people as they do.

That’s all they need, a shared hatred.

IF ever there was a reason not to watch the programme this year’s ‘star turn’ is it. We shouldn’t encourage the **** by making him feel he’s relevant.

Argh, if you can’t not see enough of Nigel, he’s just been naked in the shower. No that is an arse of someone who has never exercised. Blurgh.

Fred for PM. 

He’s boring.

You can almost smell the stale beer and fag smoke.

He’s boring.

Oh Noes!
He’s committed the one cardinal sin of being on reality telly, turning out to be dull… What a surprise 😮

TBH this is what our nation of morons deserve; Keep watching brainless shite and voting for little Hitlers? Don’t be so shocked when the two ‘cultural touchstones’ converge and are predictably underwhelming…

Good, no challenge for him. Deprive him of coverage, vote him out. Sorted.

Fred for PM.

Despite clearly having a mid life crisis 😂
On the Farage thing, now he’s in I’m mixed.  I don’t want to watch him or allow him a platform, but to vote him out now gets him 2.5 weeks in a luxury pap-free hotel in Australia, a holiday he of course hasn’t paid for.   So keep him in at least to deny that.

Michael Palin one of our national treasures was asked on this morning’s BBC breakfast, would he like to go into ‘the jungle’, his reply was “No, I’d have to eat Nigel Farage”, this made me laugh a lot.

It’s all part of his long term plan. Come across like a “reasonable” human being by being supportive to hysterical Z Listers, eat the occasional anus themed pizza, get himself into the Conservative Party, get up the leadership structure, do horrible Nazi shit.

Starts off like a bit of a laugh. Ends up dangerous.

Never watched I’m a Celebrity in my life before, is there a highlights programme where i can do nothing but watch Farage eat sh*te and not have to watch any of the rest of it?

Despite clearly having a mid life crisis

It’ll make him even more popular here. 

Who in the IAC setup team thought Farage was a good idea and then agreed to pay that slimeball a record(?) £1.5M?

What I hate is the way producers are willing to financially endorse a (at best) divisive, self-serving xenophobe just for the sake of a few viewing figures.

They seemingly put him on TV to give the public “a laugh” but don’t care about the message that sends out.

Sod it. Might as well just put Tommy Robinson on 8 out of 10 cats and have done.

get himself into the Conservative Party, get up the leadership structure, do horrible Nazi shit.

TBH without any interest in being a nazi and just riding what sells.

I doubt he has any convictions to anything other than the next grift.

Sod it. Might as well just put Tommy Robinson on 8 out of 10 cats and have done.

Probably being signed up for next year.

TBH i’m expecting Andrew Tate and Phillip Schofield to end up there in the next few years.

At least updates on this thread mean I don’t have to watch it

I could be your father….

I’m going to sleep on that. 

Can’t be doing with Nutella.

Farage admits he’s worked out that the challenges are 25% of airtime hence is disappointed not to be voted for it,  Showing his true lizard slime ball shameless motivation for being there.

The producers should kick him back to the UK immediately.

The producers should kick him back to the UK immediately.]

Anthrax island. 

Sod it. Might as well just put Tommy Robinson on 8 out of 10 cats and have done.

That would be freakin hilarious!

I am casualy morbidly interested but I won’t watch on general principal.

I’ll watch by proxy on here and other forums….any good memes come out yet?

Approaching the end of page 2 and not a single mention of anyone else who’s in the show this year.

And we’re all wondering why they gave him a wedge? That’s why. He’s worth more to them in publicity than the rest of the “celebrities” combined.

@Cougar Grace Dent is one of the other celebrities. I’m sure there’s others but for some reason I’m slightly obsessed by her.

I googled the list. I haven’t heard of any of them aside from our Dominar Nigel XVI here. Reality TV types, soap stars, daytime TV presenters, people who are best known for being related to or shagged by someone famous, etc.