I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! review: No local interest for the Irish yet but the show wisely goes back to basics

Ant and Dec in the first episode of I’m a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here. Photo: Virgin Media

The BBC may be run these days by woke activists prepared to trash the corporation’s hard won reputation just to score a few points over their ideological enemies on the right, but at least there are no ads.

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!”, which returned on Sunday evening for the 25th series (no, really), sometimes feels twice as long as it needs to be, because no sooner has some famous face started to tuck into a plate of kangaroo testicles than the show breaks off again to air another message from the sponsors.