She actully looks a lot fatter on the telly - she is unbelievably thin - like someone said - she looks like a boy with rats tail hair.

What can I tell you about Tara?

She's our little soap opera really

she's always coming over needing things - there was a knock on the door the other day and it was her asking if someone could phone her mobile as she'd lost it...

She has a very put upon maid called Bernadette - you can hear Tara yelling 'Bernie, Bernie where are you' : the house is tiny with two tiny bedrooms and a living room which opens directly out onto the street.

She never closes her front door and makes all of her phone calls on her mobile in the street so we can hear everything.

She has a phenomenally penetrating voice - we have to shut our window sometimes as it's so annoying.

she changes at least three times a day and often gets dressed in her doorway in full view of people walking past - honestly she has no clue about the real world.

I could go on all day...

You have our sympathies.

Isn't there resident's committee for dealing with trash like that?

Sounds like she thought The Ab Fab DVD series was a 'how to' guide. Poor thing. So she doesnt practice an a Concert Piano then

Make sure that the next time you tell her to shut up you write a poen to do so

And welcome to this board.

She actually has very strange taste in music for a concert pianist - she tends to have those 'the best classical advert music' and 'top ten opera clips' type CDs on, plus the occasional thumping base beat.

I couldn't believe it when I heard about the concert pianist thing.

Thank you for the welcome - I felt I had to enlighted people to Tara..

You're in the wrong forum - The Multiple Personality Disorder Forum has had to move to bigger premises ...........

OK.......... did anyone see Uri actually put a creepy crawlie in his mouth?

If you did you must have telescopic vision. Same old same old...close up of disembodied hand on plate then long shot of Uri putting hand/fork quickly into mouth. If anyone really believes these tasks are realSnarf Snarf good luck to 'em. They are a TV producer's dream audience.

What about the snake in the camp routine??????????? Are we really expected to believe that the whole lot of them calmly sit around the camp fire chatting as Christine speculates that the snake in the camp just about to move under Tony's bed is harmless? Never mind the fact that this is supposed to be at night in a gloomy camp in the heart of the rainforest alledgedly surrounded by Taipans amongst other things. Do me a favour!!!!!!!!!

More likely the snake handler standing just out of camera shot saying "OK folks we just want some footage of a snake into the camp so I'm gonna let this one go for a couple of minutes then I'll pick him up and put him back in the vivarium that we have conveniently standing by. Oh and by the way he's not venomous and we took his teeth out anyway!"

Does all this fakery matter? Well not really........I suppose it does put the pantomime into some sort of context. Most of us are watching to see how the celebs interact together and how the group functions as a team.

I'm sure all the celebs are being themselves and not acting out predefined roles supplied by the producers..................aren't they?......................AREN'T THEY????????

Well I don't know if anyone else noticed, but while Nigel and Rhona were having their bitchfight yesterday, I did see Nell and Tara in the background reading some papaers entitled "I'm A Celebrity... Script 31/08/02"

Does this mean Nell will actually speak tomorrow? You heard it here first!

ROFL

Bloody amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Intrepid Darren spends the best part of 20 minutes in a stagnant leech infested pool and doesn't get a single leech on him!!

Better still......he comes back to the camp and claims to have been bitten by a snake! Oh yes he claims to have felt it at the time but he didnt mention it to the 2 buffoons waiting for him on the bank.

Oh yes.............and how did our buffoons know that there were snakes in this pool but none of them were venomous? I suppose its because venomous snakes don't swim or the nasty old Taipan (which is supposed to infest this location) doesn't like to take a bath!

BTW whats the betting that tonights footage/script will involve a falling out between Nigel and Christine??????????

Pedro,
>Bloody amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Intrepid Darren spends the best >part of 20 minutes in a stagnant leech infested pool and >doesn't get a single leech on him!!
he did get leeches on him. Did you see the one on his neck. dec clocked it right away and said nothing - probably to keep the pace of the interview going.

>Better still......he comes back to the camp and claims to have >been bitten by a snake! Oh yes he claims to have felt it at the >time but he didnt mention it to the 2 buffoons waiting for him >on the bank.
He did mention it. Rewind the tape and you'll hear it.

>Oh yes.............and how did our buffoons know that there were >snakes in this pool but none of them were venomous? I >suppose its because venomous snakes don't swim or the >nasty old Taipan (which is supposed to infest this location) >doesn't like to take a bath!
Hey, its not a location which has suddenly turned up on the map. Same reason we know in the UK that he only dangerous snakes are adders.
>

[quote]Originally posted by Indie
[b]Pedro,

OK Indie you make some interesting points........................

I didn't see the leech on his neck but I also didnt see him dip his neck into the water................how come there were none on the rest of him?

All the information I've ever seen on snakebite says that you must identify the snake in order to know whether it is venomous or not.

At the start of the series they allegedly caught a Taipan in the camp while clearing it. If so the buggers are around there somewhere and I for one would not take the buffoons word for it that I had been bitten by a non venomous snake in the water.

And at the end of the day Indie, do you really think these ppls agents, loved ones etc would really allow them to get up to what can only be desribed as highly foolish activities in a dangerous location without a cast iron guarantee that no harm would come to them?

Imagine it. How would the recipient charities feel if one of the celebs were to be seriously injured or die during this nonsense?

The whole show is a carefully contrived hoax.

Australia is the home of snakes. Even back gardens can have venomous snakes.

I dont think the show producers would give any cast iron guarantee that no harm would come to anyone taking part. Slip on a wet rock and you could end up breaking a leg. So what are they supposed to do - sit around all day ?

Take the programme for what it is. Entertainment with at least a large element of environmental reality.

I thought Ant and Dec's area does like quite artificial and the cameras don't do that much moving about.

I'd like to know how they got a satellite up link of some sort in to the aussie jungle? and how in the papers they say all the hotels are quoted as being 2 miles away with realtives / husbands/ wives etc???

[quote]Originally posted by Pedro




I still reckon the whole show is pretty unconvincing
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Its trash tv

[quote]Originally posted by Maxiii

Quote:
“Originally posted by Pedro
Its trash tv”

You're right - it is trash TV. I actually feel quite bad for watching it but once Rhona goes I doubt I'll keep tuning in. I thought the whole concept was really crap at first, it was only when I heard that she was gonna be involved that I decided to watch it.
I also have my doubts as to the authenticity of it all. The studio is clearly (judging by the time it takes Ant & Dec to get to the camp) only a short walk from the camp. If they really were in the middle of a thick Australian jungle it wouldn't be an easy task to erect a TV studio amongst it all.
I agree with the person who said it all seemed conveniently easy for the camera men to follow the campers around. I live near thick woodland areas myself and it's hard enough just to walk through them by yourself, nevermind while carrying huge, heavy camera equipment.
I dunno exactly what the deal is with the whole set-up but I'd be willing to bet next months pay-check that it's not 100% on the level.

yes.

At one point you could see bits of the insect in his teeth.

Yeah, his teeth were all green! Urgh!

I feel sick, now.

What about those poor little grubs they sacrificed, though?

What a way to go - chewed to death by Uri Geller.
Give me a poisonous snake bite any day...

Mossopp if you read the conspiracy thread you will find a link to an Australian newspaper that will tell you that it is real. It's part of a huge outback ranch which has already been used for another TV series.

[quote]Originally posted by Maxiii

Quote:
“Originally posted by Pedro




I still reckon the whole show is pretty unconvincing
QUOTE]

Its trash tv”

But Britain's Sexiest makes it look classy.......

The trailers are enough for me!

Well yes and no Metafis..........................what you actually saw was a dead grasshopper on a plate...........cut to long shot of Uri putting his fingers quickly into his mouth...........cut back to close up of Uri with something green showing on his clenched teeth.

Could have been a couple of marrow fat peas, a few blades of grass, bits of apple peel etc.

With repect, If you saw more you must have telescopic vision.

BTW Dont forget that Uri is master of illusion.
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I'd like to know how they got a satellite up link of some sort in to the aussie jungle?

Very easily. Australia is very well-supplied with satellite uplinks and repeater stations. This *is* 2002 you know, not 1972...

and how in the papers they say all the hotels are quoted as being 2 miles away with realtives / husbands/ wives etc???

What's your problem with that?

The studio is clearly (judging by the time it takes Ant & Dec to get to the camp) only a short walk from the camp

Absolutely. Ant & Dec have said, on-air, on the ITV2 show, that they are only a minute or so's walk from the celeb camp. But so what?

If they really were in the middle of a thick Australian jungle it wouldn't be an easy task to erect a TV studio amongst it all

Well, *they* didn't erect the studio - it was done by the Americans last year for the second series of Survivor. ITV have had it easy in that respect, insofar as the infrastructure was already there, and it's clearly a well-used location.

But it's still a remote location and it's still a genuine rainforest, so what's the problem? Believe it or not, rainforests are not "thick" from their very edge right to the middle - just like any other forest they enjoy varying densities.

I live near thick woodland areas myself and it's hard enough just to walk through them by yourself

But it's easier to walk through the less densely-wooded areas, right? And if you had a large TV crew in the vicinity, you'd find lots of paths being worn naturally through people's movements.

nevermind while carrying huge, heavy camera equipment

Modern camera equipment isn't huge and heavy. You can see that they're using a lot of DV cameras, almost certainly because they're lighter and smaller and much more suited to use in that kind of environment.

I dunno exactly what the deal is with the whole set-up but I'd be willing to bet next months pay-check that it's not 100% on the level

Well, what qualifies as "on the level"? The important part of the show is the interaction between the celebs; who gives a toss about whether Ant & Dec are 100 miles or 100 yards away from the celeb camp?

BTW, it's "cheque", not "check"!

I love you.

100% agree with GWR , why do people insist on thinking that this is some kind of survival show? They are not out there fending for themselves in a jungle , that would be crazy. The whole point is to show the interaction between "celebs". Life is made slightly rougher for them by having them in the camp but thats as far as it goes. Whats the problem?