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No place for English chivalry among these rainforest ravers: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Wilderness With Simon Reeve
Christopher Stevens: Stick Simon Reeve in the I'm A Celebrity jungle and he'll romp to the crown . He demolishes bushtucker trials and challenges for fun.
Wading through tropical forests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Wilderness With Simon Reeve (BBC2), he was up to his thighs in glue-like mud, covered in swarms of biting insects, confronted with heaps of blackened 'bush meat' — dismembered monkeys and porcupines — and dripping with sweat in steam-bath humidity. He's not a party-mad extrovert, that's for sure: when a tribe of Baka nomads threw an all-night wing-ding to celebrate his arrival, he crawled off to sleep in a hut before midnight. George did show us ramshackle lean-tos in the Louisiana bayou swamps, and a barn more than five storeys high, built to hold a vast collection of neon advertising signs.
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