Politician or celebrity? Who knows anymore?

IT’S A jungle out there in British politics. You never know when someone you have just sacked is going to turn around and tell you that, while she regrets to say it, you’re actually a coward and a failure who has betrayed the nation and who suffers from “magical thinking”.

But not everyone seems to mind the jungle: some politicians even willingly and knowingly enter it. Yes, I am indeed talking about Brexit-party-leader-turned-TV-news-host Nigel Farage, who on Sunday (Nov 19) joined the likes of Britney Spears’ sister Jamie Lynn in Australia for the start of the 23rd series of I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! 

Farage – who is rumoured to be earning a record-smashing, nausea-inducing £1.5 million (S$2.5 million) fee – confirmed his appearance via a video posted on social media, in which he acts out getting a call from the show’s producers, telling them that it’s bad timing before saying: “’Ow much? Good lord! Well, I’ll see you in the jungle!”