I am quite sure they are used to him by now. I imagine overall they have nothing but immense pride as he his turned the opinion of a nation and rightly so.

What was great tackling his fear gave him the new found confirdence to give Janet some sharp words. Put her silent. Keep it up Paul.

It was the funniest thing I have seen on TV in a long time.

imo pauls reactions to putting his hands in the holes were the real deal. for me it was the involuntary knee movements...no control over them at all.
compared to the resident comic (joe, if you hadn't realised ), all of pauls antics seem totally natural and at times naive...joe's almost seem like saturday night at the palladium.

i don't think i have laughed that much for ages, tears were flowing

When faced with something vile, scary, disgusting, (No Janet jokes here)....contorting your face, and shouting out can help you deal with fear.

We all do it.

If someone offered you a cup of sick to drink, your face would naturally contort.

When someone has to physically exert themselves, they naturally make noises and exaggerate facial expressions.

If somebody put a tarantula on your head, you would wince and squirm, make eeeurgh noises and "naturally" overdramatise your feelings.

When under certain stress, most of us physically do things to help ourselves.
We probably don't need to, but we feel it helps.
I think it's in our genetic makeup to act this way.

When suddenly faced with something disgusting, we subconciously associate with germs and contort out face.
Anything dead, we often do the same.

These are coping mechanisms that we all do.

His pulling faces, making noises, kicking his leg, or your arse involuntarily scrunching up would be something that would have helped him.
It depends on who it is, and what sort of things they find unpleasant.

I can't see many people being cool calm and collected about the situation he was in.
I was squirming slightly just watching, And my own face was probably contorting when I saw the nasties in the holes.

Yes, he was overexaggerating. That would be a natural coping mechanism to help him get through it.
He spoke so much absolute bollox at times I doubt he would have even been thinking that much about what he actually said.

I think he let himself overexaggerate. And I don't think that was a crime if it was to help him get through the trial.

He comes out with so much off the cuff, emotional type spontaneous stuff in conversation in the camp that can make him look foolish at times, so I can honestly believe that his emotions were pretty real in that task.

He really didn't look like he enjoyed what he had to do, so I doubt he would have felt calculated enough at that time to ham it up deliberately.

I watched this trial with a mixture of amusement, anger and a huge amount of respect.

YES is made some very amusing sound effects
YES he was scared witless

BUT

He got 5 stars, squirmed, almost cried made everyone take the pee but he DID NOT remove his arm and kept trying and trying to complete the task.

To me what ever the sound effects I respect that he had the guts to COMPLETE the task and feed the other people at camp.

The anger was because Ant & Dec and lots of others just took the p*** but would they do it? Would they have completed? Would they have kept their arms in a hole full of snakes when they were morbidly terrified? Maybe they would but they haven't and because they haven't they have no room to react as they did. Yes it was funny to a degree but too much was made of the comical aspect and nowhere near enough credit given for conquering his fear and completing the task....... Well... you did it but what a wuss....? I don't think so!!!!

Actually... is was more than amusing... it made great watching but please.... real credit where credit is due...

WTG Paul... !!!!!!!!!!
Last edited by GingerUK : 05-12-2004 at 10:28

This is soo out of order, the ONE time i miss i'm a celeb, i miss a really good episode!! I was at my cousins and she doesn't watch it, neither does any of my family, its just me and my sister, oh well we were watching I-Robot!

as usual totally agree with Alrightmate.. his reactions were completely explainable, i'd hate to think people thought he was faking that, i know faking, and that wasn't it.. hell even if he was, respect still for entertaining us so much!!!

funny and classic TV!!! we've all been in a situation like Ant & Dec when we've seen a friend act like that, and couldn't help but laugh...

i personally, unless i was drunk, would have quit on the spiders, the other stuff i've more or less done in some shape or form, but the spiders, i would have shat myself, full respect for him on the snakes and everything in general!!