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This year’s series of I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! It will be the most unusual yet, with Covid restrictions preventing the show from taking place in Australia as usual. Instead, this year’s location will be the much less exotic Gwrych Castle in North Wales, which has the potential to make this the toughest season yet.
And despite the pandemic and the cold barrage of unstoppable misery, I’m a Celebrity has managed to round up 12 new contestants. Some apparently required large offers of money to get them out of the safety of confinement. Others, starving for the attention they would receive in a normal year, may have been less convincing. Regardless, here are this year’s I’m a Celebrity contestants, ranked worst to best in terms of likely success.
North Jordan
Poor Jordan North. Even he must know that he is the rank outsider this year. A Radio 1 DJ best known for being the stand-in for other more famous Radio 1 DJs, North won’t benefit from the familiarity. He may have a great career ahead of him. You may have a winning personality. But there is a very real possibility that, on this show, people will just forget that he exists.
You might know AJ Pritchard as the Strictly Come Dancing pro who seems like the third most popular member of a boy band titled Little Lab Grown Boys. There’s a reason Pritchard isn’t on Strictly this year, and it’s because he wants to be a TV host. Someone really, really should have sat him down and made him watch Anton du Beke’s Hole in the Wall series.
Jessica plummer
Jessica Plummer was recently removed from EastEnders when her character was murdered at the end of a highly traumatic domestic abuse story. By right, you should travel to Australia for two weeks of warm relaxation. Instead, it will be shaking in Wales in November.
Hollie arnold
Hollie Arnold is a javelin thrower who has won numerous gold medals. “In 2018 she became the first javelin thrower in history to have ALL FOUR TOP TITLES in the same four-year Paralympic / Olympic cycle,” says her Wikipedia page. This weird emphasis on all caps has got me excited about how he’ll update after his time on I’m a Celebrity. I am encouraging: “In 2020, he ate THREE FISH EYES and HALF THE TESTICLE OF A SHEEP.”
Vernon kay
Vernon Kay is apparently the biggest earner this year, taking home £ 250,000 for his time on the show. This would suggest that it is a national treasure. But is not. He is Vernon Kay. How are you going to demonstrate that kind of courage, short of eradicating the coronavirus in the sight of Ant and Dec?
For Farah
Sir Mo Farah is an Olympic hero. When you die, your obituaries will be filled with the hit stories of 2012. That is, unless you put such spectacular effort into I’m a Celebrity that your entire legacy changes. That it won’t. He’ll keep quiet, do the bare minimum, go home and cash his check. He is not an idiot.
Victoria Derbyshire
Every year, one of the contestants on I’m a Celebrity gets involved in the role of father of the camp. This year, very obviously, that contestant will be announcer Victoria Derbyshire. Can you imagine having it big in the middle of the castle? Can you imagine her throwing a tantrum? Of course, no. She will be safe and stable, the person everyone runs to in an emergency. She will be the most needed person on the show, but that will be boring and she won’t win.
Giovanna fletcher
If Victoria Derbyshire avoids the role of father of the camp, Giovanna Fletcher is almost certain to reprise it. She is kind of a professional mom. She has a podcast on being a mother. Write books about being a mother. Host a television show that is a baby club. But this will also be an excellent opportunity for Fletcher to show that she is not just a mother. And if that means you have to get drunk and fistfight Vernon Kay to do it, then all the better.
Beverley callard
As a longtime Coronation Street cast member, Beverley Callard is a true national treasure. She has been on television long enough to become instantly familiar and has developed a reputation for always being honest about her feelings. There is potential for drama here, but she seems precisely designed to win I’m a celebrity.
Shane richie
But Bev will not win, because Shane Richie will also participate. Can you believe we live in a universe where the host and former EastEnders actor has yet to appear on I’m a Celebrity? This must be the result of some galactic anomaly. Fortunately, he is here now and will probably win. When it does, everything will fit back together and 2020 will be back to normal. I guarantee it.
I’m a celebrity… Get me out of here! starts at 9:00 p.m. on November 15 on ITV.
