When TVA announced the start of a local version of British reality TV I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!Quebec – okay, I’m exaggerating a bit – let out a stifled cry: but who will agree to show their worst side in front of the intrusive cameras, their faces smeared with mud and insect bites?
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‘Cause there’s absolutely nothing glam about Get me out of here!, the French name of this phenomenal show that TVA will broadcast in January. Mix of Fort Boyard and of Survivorthe production parachutes ten stars into the middle of the jungle and forces them to survive with the bare minimum, without make-up artists, hairdressers or caterers.
To earn comfort privileges, participants of Get me out of here! eat ants, baobab roots or cockroaches and sleep in a more than rudimentary camp, which is teeming with bugs. They also subject themselves to grueling physical challenges.
Anyway, it looks like (fire) Extreme Expedition of the Z channel, where Martin Perizzolo had freaked out in 2016. TVA confirmed on Monday the participation of three competitors from Get me out of here!the singer Nathalie Simard, the Dr François Marquis of the docureality On call 24/7 of Télé-Québec as well as Olympic athlete Marianne St-Gelais.
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Nathalie Simard is one of the three participants in the show Get me out of here! of VAT.
And who are the other brave ones? According to my spies, who have not taken time off this summer, comedian Jean-François Mercier, singer-songwriter Andréanne A. Malette, weather presenter Colette Provencher and actress Livia Martin (daughter of comedian Maxim Martin) would have been part of this exotico-television journey. None of these candidates, however, responded to my interview requests about Get me out of here!.
With the Dr Marquis in the group, head of intensive care at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital, we know that heatstroke, food poisoning and dehydration had to be well treated. And Colette Provencher probably had to see the hurricanes coming two days in advance, she who has been reading the future of weather maps for more than 40 years at TVA.
The shootings of Get me out of here! were completed in July, in Costa Rica. The animation of this reality show has been entrusted to Alexandre Barrette and Jean-Philippe Dion, who will tear themselves away from the cozy boho-chic comfort of true nature.
The headliners of Get me out of here!, who are called campers, are entitled to rations of rice and black beans and spend their nights under the stars in a tropical forest. The person who resists this experience of immersion in equatorial nature the longest wins a prize pool of $100,000, which they will donate to a charity of their choice.
In England, the ITV channel presents the 22e season of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! with resounding success on the audience. On the side of the United States, the adaptation was a total flop. The first version, manufactured in 2003, brought together actress Melissa Rivers, aspiring politician Caitlyn Jenner and model Tyson Beckford. The second incarnation, conceived in 2009, brought together supermodel Janice Dickinson, actor Lou Diamond Phillips (The Bamba) and two of the Baldwin brothers, Stephen and Daniel. All stars of series C, we get along.
Yes, there will be stars in our winter reality shows. Noovo brings back Big Brother Celebrities for a third chapter in January, still with Marie-Mai in charge.
University crush!
Huge love for comedy The Sex Lives of College Girls from HBO, which can be viewed, unfortunately only in English, on the Crave platform. The French version does not exist with us, it is sad.
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The Sex Lives of College Girls is now on the Crave platform.
I know it, Sex Lives About a year old, but hey. Good television does not have an expiration date. The second season would be released in late 2022 or early 2023, and I can’t wait. It’s funny, moving and filled with vitaminized dialogues.
The title of this TV series created by the brilliant Mindy Kaling (my first times) summarizes its content well, which oscillates between the comic and the very honest. It follows four roommates who begin their first year at the prestigious (fictional) university of Essex, in Vermont. The four “teenagers”, who come from different socio-economic backgrounds, have nothing in common, at first.
There’s confident Leighton, the rich kid raised in New York who looks like a mean blonde in gossip girl. There’s shy Kimberly, whose family in Arizona isn’t rolling in gold. There’s Bela, an aspiring comedian whose Indian parents assume she’s studying science. And there’s the athletic Whitney, soccer champion and daughter of a well-known senator.
Between their classes and their social activities, the four roommates have, of course, sex. Lots of sex. They get entangled in complicated, borderline toxic relationships. They wonder about their future and their sexual orientation. They resolve conflicts and end up forging strong bonds between them.
Bonuses: The Sex Lives of College Girls starts with the start of the school year in Essex, which is exactly what is happening in universities here. But don’t let that autumn spirit drown you in a pumpkin spice latte and wrap you in a chunky wool sweater. Resist. It’s still summer!