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1 Format

In return for their appearance on the show the celebrities are asked to nominate a charity to which the producers, Granada Television, make donations. The celebrities themselves are also paid a fee (reported to be £25,000 for UK competitors) to compensate them for possible loss of earnings while they are in the jungle. The producers of the show keep the precise details of the celebrities' contracts very private, prompting much speculation from the tabloid media. The money is raised by allowing viewers to vote by phone or text message for the celebrity they would like to complete a "Bushtucker Trial" - a physical task usually involving snakes, spiders or other creepy-crawlies found in the jungle - and, later in each series, to vote for the celebrity they would like to see evicted from the show. The last remaining celebrity after all others have been evicted is the winner of the show.

Previous winners of the show include Tony Blackburn, Phil Tufnell, Kerry McFadden (UK), Cris Judd (US) and Costa Cordalis and Désirée Nick (Germany).

2 Popularity and criticism

The show is undoubtedly popular, at least within the UK. The finales of the second and third series were seen by 12.5 and 15.3 million people respectively - well over half of all people watching television in the country at the time of day in both cases. The show also helped singer Peter AndrePeter Andre (birth name: Peter James Andrea) is a male singer born in the UK, but was raised in Australia, and is of Cypriot decent. The UK is where he's finding the most success. At first he was on the Australian soap opera Neighbours before turning to m resurrect his music career in 2004See also 2003 in music, other events of 2004, 2005 in music, list of 'years in music', 2000s in music Events January 1 Traditional Vienna New Year's Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Vienna, conducted by Riccardo Muti January 1 Kurt Nilsen w. However, it has come under fire from some critics on two counts:

• The first complaint is that the show is trashy TV, consisting of has-been or never-were celebrities trying to revive their careers. The UK's Secretary of State for Culture at the time, Tessa JowellThe Right Honourable Tessa Jane Helena Douglas Jowell (born September 17, 1947) is a British politician who is Labour MP for Dulwich and West Norwood and Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Born in London, Tessa Jowell attended the University, was the most high-profile person to criticise the show. In an interview with the Financial TimesThe Financial Times FT is an international business newspaper printed on distinctive salmon pink paper. The FT reports extensively on business and features extensive share and financial product listings. It also has a sizeable network of international rep during the second British series, she said, "If they weren't mostly - save their blushes - has-been celebrities, there might be more interest [...] I think that if we saw many more programming hours taken over by reality TV, I hope you'd begin to see a viewers' revolt."

• The second criticism of the show is that it pretends to be more wild than it actually is. Audiences are left with the impression that the celebrities are in the Australian Outback far from any major settlement whereas they are close to a luxury hotel. Further, the camp site in which the celebrities stay appears to be open to the elements but is largely covered by sheets above the view of the cameras. In an episode of the British show, a celebrity had to swim in a swamp apparently infested with crocodileCrocodylus Osteolaemus Tomistoma A crocodile can be any of the 14 species of large, water-loving reptiles in the family Crocodylidae (sometimes classified instead as the subfamily Crocodylinae . The term is also used more loosely to include all members ofs. Marksmen were shown ready to shoot the animals if they attacked. It was later revealed that the crocodiles were man-made and moved by remote control.