Mark Wright has been hugely impressive in the jungle and the TOWIE star is now odds-on to win I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here 2011.
Mark Wright is getting shorter and shorter (not Willie Carson short), and his price now is a staggering 1.42 for jungle glory, and the longer the show goes on, the more it looks like a done deal. It's agony for the layers. His romance is still very much alive as Emily Scott breezed through Monday night's programme, with Jessica-Jane surprisingly booted off - despite being matched as low as 1.91 in the top female market.
The latest bushtucker trial saw the TOWIE man at his best, collecting the maximum eight stars in the 'pits of peril'. Having dived around in gunk, slime and quicksand, the 24-year-old had to naturally shower or bath, and naturally Emily was on hand with the towel. And just to seal his lofty position at the top of the market, his backside came out to leave the millions of women out there drooling. He is certainly using the machinery.
Mark also promised to show the Aussie model his meal worm. There's no need for that.
It will be an absolute disaster if Wright doesn't win this now, he would have to commit some monumental error in camp in the final week. He wants a TV career so there is no chance of that, and the odds-on backers will have a field day with his price.
Antony Cotton was the second favourite over the weekend, but he lost the plot again on Monday's show. The Corrie star disappeared for a while (needing some space), and confided to Mark he is hating every single minute. The icing on the cake was the catch phrase: "I don't wanna be here - it's utterly boring." The kind of anecdote that makes this show. Cotton is not playing the game, his price to win it is now 10.5 and he needs to recover quickly. When he's good he is good, but he is prone to erratic highs and lows, which could make him interesting as a shock exit.
Meanwhile Emily and the departed JJ cracked the celebrity chest by guessing the code as 1066. The giveaway was the battle of Hastings. It's lucky Mark didn't have that,as 1880 wouldn't have opened it.
My project to get Crissy Rock out has lost momentum. She barely managed a minute until around about 9:35pm last night, despite the lack of presence, she is still there. Her talents are smoking, yet the voters are keeping her in. I have to give her the swerve having been bitten twice in the elimination market. James Joyce once said a man's errors are the portals of his discovery. I am still to discover 'The Rock."
Tuesday's elimination could be anyone's (other than Mark). And with Antony dissing the programme, it might be worth taking a chance on the man who described Fatima as having the personality of a frying pan. Ouch.
