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Mel's insider knowledge
shandygirl1211
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She may bitch about it all the time, but I have no doubt her co-host advised her that the guaranteed way to get air time every night, other than doing trials, is to be the camp's goto 'chef'!
From day one, the first thing I remember her saying was 'I really like cooking and I'm a good cook' marking her territory straight off.
Even when she has declared she needs a break from it due to the bickering, she has managed to ensure herself airtime by still 'controlling' even from her bunk.
What happened this year, to 'camp chef' having sous chefs helping with the prep etc.?
seems to me Mel has even done most of the peeling, chopping etc. as well as the cooking.
So in my opinion, those who are upset or questioning her final four ranking..... King (splutter) Gino is who we can thank
From day one, the first thing I remember her saying was 'I really like cooking and I'm a good cook' marking her territory straight off.
Even when she has declared she needs a break from it due to the bickering, she has managed to ensure herself airtime by still 'controlling' even from her bunk.
What happened this year, to 'camp chef' having sous chefs helping with the prep etc.?
seems to me Mel has even done most of the peeling, chopping etc. as well as the cooking.
So in my opinion, those who are upset or questioning her final four ranking..... King (splutter) Gino is who we can thank
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Let's face it, Gino is probably the best winner of I'm a celebrity. He was absolutely hilarious. But not only is he a fantastic cook he sneaked in condiments and spices, so made the food more tasty which the camp mates thoroughly enjoyed! He may well have advised Mel but no different to anybody else that has gone in the jungle and who knew somebody else going in and advised them.
I don't think Mel is controlling at all and not really argumentative either, both those tags go to Edwina for me!
I think weve got the message now that you like Mel and dislike Edwina. Youve said it enough times ;-)
Yes, oh so true! But no different to you, just the other way around. I find it amusing how many people that have slated Mel on here but when I put anything negative about Edwina you don't like it!
I give Mel being territorial about the cooking a pass, those who have been like that before have said it was an escape from going stir crazy when you aren't getting out of camp for trials, I can believe that. It's just her being so up and down with seemingly no middle that grates on my nerves.
Makes sense.
Why disn't anyone else say that they want to cook, I'm sure most of them could cook just as well as her. !!!
Because she would have bitten their head of, I guess for a quiet life they decided just to let her get on with it, shame though it would have been better seeing others cook.
and yet Edwina won the 'most annoying' and 'most argumentative' campmate. I think ITV showed us only half of the story as usual.
And this was from her camp mates. I'm sure they seen Edwina being a lot more annoying and argumentative than we did.
Still, it made for better viewing if ITV gave us a ' villain '. This year it was Mel.
It's as obvious as their ramming Jake down our throats>:(
and her campmates would know her better than we do, they get to be with her 24 hour a day.
No answer to that really other than - as we say in my part of the world "well I'l go to the foot of our stairs"
That is very true - and perhaps some people make the other half up and see ot think what they wish to do.
Why am I not surprised. It's not her damned food and she has no right to take total control over it without question.
. He's a trained cook and could manage alone. She can't and used it to totally control everyone else and think she was entitled to some bloody goddess status. Complete with childish hissy fits.
Great points and couldn't agree more.. on all fronts!
Jeez she went right over the top about her control freak martyrdom.
They certainly seemed to make up most of the stuff about Mel, some of it very imaginative.
Several of them said that they tried - Mel, subsequently, threw a strop. They didn't pursue the idea, in order to keep the peace.....
It was anything to keep the peace. She hated letting anyone even help, apart from her faves. It's not her bloody food! Foggy is telling some home truths at the moment and Mel is whinging, of course, making every excuse under the sun
Yes but you and I might have a different opinion about that other half.