Do you watch “I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out Of Here?”

Have you compared the Brit version with the US version?

There is an old joke about the USA – that it passed from barbarism to decadence without touching the intervening period of civilisation. The characters on the US version of “Celebrity” would confirm any prejudices in favour of the joke. Comparing the performance of the US celebrities with their Brit counterparts would also confirm any prejudices about the IQ differential.

The only thing I can say in favour of the US version is that the Brit “stiff upper lip” is a bluff: living in a nation with no indoor toilets, monthly hot baths and the worst food on the planet makes our celebs look tough in the jungle, but in truth it is no different to home. Where the Brits just had a go and told each other that the jungle was “really rather nice,” the Americans are really suffering – I mean, there is no room service!

We need an anthropology PhD student. There’s a doctoral thesis in this programme.