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Dom Joly and Jenny Eclair have joined the cast of I'm A Celebrity in Australia.

The two comedians were given a traditional I'm A Celeb welcome and after travelling in helicopters were challenged to canoe across a remote jungle clearing before they entered a spooky shack.

Joly and Eclair were tasked to spend three hours in the shack, where they were treated to a box for each half-hour that they remained in the hut. Each box contained a food star and some more jungle critters that would remain in the shack with them.

The duo's entrance and challenge will be shown on tonight's show on ITV1.

Speaking about her reasons for going on the programme, Eclair said: "It's an extreme diet plan. I'm actually incredibly selfish and spoilt and I'm very used to walking to my fridge and picking. The reason I've got to come here actually is to drop a dress size before Christmas. I'm going to lose so much weight in there, I'm going to come out looking like Elle Macpherson."

Meanwhile, Trigger Happy TV star Joly confessed that he may end up causing tension in the celebrity camp. "I am very confrontational," he said. "I wouldn't argue just for the laugh, but if someone p*ssed me off, I would say it."

I know this is from the Daily Mail but......

Why 'Doctor' Gillian McKeith's stories are harder to swallow than a bushtucker witchety grub:

It was in America that she gained her now much-discussed ‘PhD’ in nutrition, which, for a time, formed the backdrop of her qualifications.

Her history starts to become a little hazy after this. As her official biography has it, Gillian became a health expert on U.S. television and radio for many years, with a regular slot as a nutritional expert on the talk show of American comedienne Joan Rivers — although this seems to have come as news to some of the regular executives on the series, who have no recollection of her.

And:

Yet, unfortunately, the Gillian McKeith story — or her version of it — also seems to have attracted a number of question marks over the years. Take John Garrow, the then highly respected Professor Emeritus in Human Nutrition at London University, who, in 2006, labelled her a ‘charlatan.’

Also:

Or Amanda Wynne, senior dietician of the British Dietetic Association, who said she and her colleagues were ‘appalled’ by Gillian’s advice. ‘It is quite obvious she hasn’t a clue about nutrition,’ she said.

More pertinently, Gillian also seemed to be rather clueless about the status of her qualifications.

In 2007, she agreed to stop using the title ‘Dr’ on her products after it emerged that her PhD was not, as she once claimed on her website, from the respected American College of Nutrition, but from a non-accredited correspondence course college.

None of this, however, is perhaps quite so eyebrow-raising as her latest spat, which unfolded earlier this year. Her nemesis this time came in the form of author and journalist Dr Ben Goldacre.

Dr Goldacre dislikes McKeith’s curriculum vitae so much that he chose to devote an entire chapter of his book, Bad Science, to a rebuttal of her scientific credibility. McKeith, he argued, was the purveyor of ‘mumbo jumbo’ dressed up as scientific fact.

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