Next Monday marks the premiere of NBC’s “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!,” a reality show that will pit some of the most vile quasi-celebrities on the planet — the roster includes Heidi and Spencer Pratt, Janice Dickinson, Sanjaya from “American Idol,” and Stephen Baldwin, among others — against each other in the unforgiving environment of the Costa Rican jungle.
Will it be worth it to see people we hate in miserable conditions? Does schadenfreude make good television? It seems the pampered stars won’t be getting many frills:
The day before flying out to the jungles of Costa Rica, Stephen Baldwin – on his way to getting last minute vaccination shots – [revealed] what he and the other celebrity contestants are allowed to bring with them: Three pairs of socks and three pairs of underwear. “That’s it and that’s no joke,” the youngest Baldwin brother says. [NY Post]
I really think I could hate-watch it in small doses. I’ll be pulling for Baldwin to win. Baldwin, or yellow fever.
(By the way, Spencer is still reportedly going, even though he failed his medical exam: “Show bosses sent “The Hills” star to a Los Angeles hospital for further tests, after discovering problems with his blood.” What could it be? Acid that burns through walls? A mysterious black, tar-like substance? 100% douchewater?)
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I’m hoping that they will be in the same jungle where the Predator slaughtered Dutch’s men.
*dreams of Spencer Pratt’s head being blown off by the shoulder cannon*
Spencer totally has the HIV. They don’t want him to bleed all over everyone when Stephen Baldwin punches him in his stupid mug repeatedly.
@MC Hammer: That’s why I keep pitching a fit every time Ufford mentions Heidi or Spencer or anything even tangentially related to The Hills. The only press those people deserve is no press (or perhaps being thrown alive into a cider press).
DO NOT WATCH. Not even hate-watch. It’s like the PR rep always said, any publicity is good publicity. Same goes for TV shows — Nielsen counts hate-watchers the same as regular watchers. You can always catch the decent bits on The Soup.
I live here in Costa Rica and if we can find out where they are, my friends and I fully plan on going there to be jackasses and ruin something.
If I am able, I promise to kill Spencer and rape Heidi.
Also, Costa Rica is really “gringo-friendly”. You can get everything here you can back in the US. I just ate KFC for lunch (and now have gut-rot – just like home!).
Don’t watch. Even if it’s entertaining in the slightest, we don’t want to encourage them.
@Matt — Reads better now. I’m not sure what’s worse, your original phrasing or the fact that I still quoted it.
@KP — you highlighting that part of the sentence helped me realize how awful that syntax was. Edited for clarity.
I’ll tune in when they resort to cannibalism.
According to the NBC site, Lou Diamond Philips will be on this show too. I’ll be rooting for him…to die a quick death and spare him from the embarassment of this show.
F.Y.I. Douchewater is a great name for a Nickelback-like band.
… in the unforgiving environment in the jungle of Costa Rica.
It’s times like this that I wish Predator was a documentary.