The trials of being a tabloid hack

Monkey's antipodean cousins have been keeping an eye on the tabloid hacks sent to the Australian jungle to cover I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. It hasn't all been swapping jokes and beers with Ant and Dec. Oh no. To begin with, the ITV PR team sprung a Bushtucker Trial on the unsuspecting hacks. The Daily Mirror's Frank Thorne, Peter Dyke from the Star and Colin Robertson from the Sun had tabloid points to prove in a Bushtucker battle of the red-tops. The trio were all determined not to be outdone and munched through mealworms, crickets, green ants, silk worms and cockroaches. Dyke and Thorne ate everything. But an increasingly green Robertson had to admit defeat after failing to neck a cockroach. Yes, you can insert your own joke here about the irony of a tabloid hack turning his nose up a cockroach. Let's hope that the result of the trial's not a sign of things to come for poor Colin ... after all, it's a jungle out there.