What DIDN’T you like about this years’ series?

I personally thought it was very boring this year. One of the most rubbish series’ for a while.

No drama, hardly any arguments, not much humour. I get that a lot of celebs are worried about cancel culture and so probably dial down their personalities, but most of them were too nicey nice. Even the ones like Dean and Jane who had a bit of drama weren’t anything like what we’ve seen in the past.

I also thought the lineup this year was a bit shite. I get that most are going to be soap stars, influencers or various Z listers, but there’s often the token American celeb who was far more famous, or someone more “recently controversial”- even if it’s someone like Matt Hancock. I think they likely spent a lot of their budget on Colleen, expecting she’d talk about Rebekah Vardy the whole time.

I wasn’t keen on most of the trials being (what I suspected was changed to) two person. I get why they did it and were probably concerned trials would be wasted by Dean if he didn’t do them, so added another contestant on last minute despite there being no need for one.

I also felt like they’d cheaped out a bit. No trial at the beginning on the crane, no live trial, no camp being split in two (unless you count rev and Maura in luxury) and not enough kiosk kev challenges.

The trials themselves were a bit meh- there are usually more open air or frightening ones like coffins in mid air, celebs attached to a crane while another controls it, or the one with Ferne McCann walking high up on a narrow platform, blindfolded in a clown suit. I always thought there usually was an eating trial at the final but that didn’t happen either.

Also missed the baby emu’s on set lol.

What did you think?