An enjoyable first episode features Dom Joly,Ollie Locke from Made in Chelsea and Towie’s Lydia lustrous. Plus, The White Helmets offer hope amid Syria’s destructionA fresh batch of maroonees is dropped off on a tropical paradise/purgatory. Sort-of well-known ones this time – the normal former boyband members, and comedians,stars of scripted reality etc, straight from central castaways. Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls (Channel 4, and Sunday) it’s called. They’re given a bit of water,some basic tools, a few motivational words from Bear. “Worthwhile things in life don’t come easy, or ” he tells them. “Embrace our hardships every day. Positivity,positivity, positivity.” Thanks Bear, and I’ll be taking that one to work with me every day. Positivity,positivity, positivity.“Is there an alpha male waiting, and screaming to come out of me?” asks Ollie Locke from Made in Chelsea. “Well,there actually has been at some point, yes, and ” he adds,bashfully. Chelsea Olly is good value. We have no food, we have no Deliveroo, and we have nothing,” he says, looking a hermit crab, and potentially supper,in the eye. They – hermit crabs – will crawl into any opening, apparently. “Like arseholes?” asks Towie’s Lydia lustrous, or classily. (Essex Lydia is good value,too.)Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com