The Celebrity Ascent of Kilimanjaro

It was sooooo hard and they were almost sick. The poor little celebs had to climb a big mountain. They even raised £1.6 million in the process. Well done. But what they didn’t tell you was that it took 33 climbers, 2 doctors, 100 porters, two runners and half a tonne of broadcasting equipment to do it.

Every day, a team of hard-as-nails crew got up before the stars, climbed ahead to film, sent a runner to take the tape back to camp which was then edited while the celebrities rested. How fit was the guy that ran down the mountain and back up again in the time it took the celebrities to do one day’s walking? Surely the mountain isn’t that impressive if you can get two editing suites up it without using a helicopter?

The BBC is really irritating during Comic Relief, thinking it’s a great way to spend the licence fee and take a bit of a holiday whilst squeezing every little last penny out of the British public. However, there’s nothing comic, or relieving about sending several wealthy celebrities on a challenge that isn’t that difficult with a team of staff that cost at least a million pounds. Making each of them work in a soup kitchen for a week could have been cheaper, funnier and they wouldn’t have had the nerve to pose in sunglasses whilst they did it.

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