Nigel Farage and I'm a Celebrity: another case of 'funwashing'?

The former Ukip leader will join celebrity campmates in the Australian jungle

Nigel Farage
The former Ukip leader has reportedly been offered £1.5 million to appear on the reality TV show
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Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage has been confirmed as a contestant on a new series of the long-running reality TV show, "I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here".

The show sees celebrities shipped off to the Australian jungle to complete gruelling tasks known as "bushtucker trials", which in the past, have "included eating camel testicles, chomping on crocodile anus – and being enclosed in a coffin full of snakes", said Politico

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.