Lou Diamond Phillips Wins I’m A Celebrity
Posted by REALITY REHASH on June 24, 2009 under I'm A Celebrity, NBC
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After 24 days Lou Diamond Phillips, the biggest celebrity on the show, won I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here in a no surprise ending. Lou dominated the show (no I will not call it a game because a game it was not). He was hardly ever up for elimination, if at all, and beat out Torrie Wilson and John Salley to become King of the jungle. Both John and Torrie were in the bottom two at least once in the shows run so it seemed obvious that Lou would win. His prize…. the title of “King of the Jungle”, a hat made out of leaves and the chance to sit on a “thrown”. Wow. Oh his charity also gets some money, how much? We have no clue because the show rarely discussed the actually charities, the amount they would receive and exactly what they had to do with the show.
There weren’t really many contenders on there. I guess they all had potential to win but being that so few people probably voted on the show it wasn’t really that big of a deal. I mean.. it’s all about who is the bigger celebrity and is the reason that Big Brother 1 failed here in the first place. If you’re just voting for someone based upon them living, there really isn’t much fun in it. Although the show wasn’t that great, there were some great moments as we got to see some of our most favorite Reality Stars back in action. Sanjaya proved to be the polar opposite of himself on American Idol while Janice Dickinson became, probably, a bigger “star” then she was before. Thanks to her spitting, under-active bowels and her crazy stealing antics.
In the end the show was rather…. dull. It started off dramatic with Heidi and Spencer but fizzled out quickly when it became obvious that the show had no rules, didn’t care about throwing people in or taking people out and generally lacked the credibility that even Big Brother has. They claimed at the very end to “see us next year” but with the dismal ratings and the overall flack that the show has received, I doubt that will ever happen. At least I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here tried… and was a nice bumper until Big Brother started. NBC tried to overthrow the show that makes the summer: Big Brother and it just ain’t gonna happen.
