Never Mind The (Roo) Bollocks: Malcom McLaren On The I’m A Celebrity Swindle
ONCE in a generation, a man comes along and single-handedly rocks the world of showbiz to its foundations. One such man is Malcolm McLaren.
McLaren is the former manager of the Sex Pistols, whose antics were described as a bigger threat than world communism, and who swore on TV in the back in days when only Peregrine Worsthorne was allowed to do that sort of thing.
Yet that was just a storm in a teacup compared to McLaren’s latest outburst: a scorched-earth demolition of the jungle sham that is I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here.
McLaren’s one-time partner in crime John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, was content to play along with the jungle japery and become a national treasure in the process. But the flame-haired Svengali is made of sterner stuff. He has walked out of Ant and Dec’s outback challenge and denounced the whole thing as “a fix”.
In a “world exclusive”, the Daily Star reports that McLaren regards the set-up as “a glorified film set” which poses no danger to the celebrities within. He reckons that the winners are decided in advance, and the “bushtucker trials” are so harmless that the show’s medic said he would allow his kids to do them.
But he saves his biggest indictment until last. The show’s other participants, in his opinion, are “’once upon a time’ celebrities looking to relaunch themselves”.
And what was Mclaren’s own role in all this? “They needed a genuine celebrity. That’s why I was offered £350,000. It’s the highest fee anyone has been offered.”
The show’s producers unsurprisingly beg to differ. But what of old John Lydon?
“I knew he would back out,” says the veteran punk. “When I went on that show it was a
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