12 METRO Thursday, November 12, 2009 D Overnight accommodation from only 75 per room Contact our Christmas Co-Ordinator today on 01 618 5600 or email vpratt@burlingtonhotel.ie www.burlingtonhotel.ie Grubs, crickets and spiders are up as the celebrities enter the jungle Call me Jane: Actually, its ballroom dancer Camilla Dallerup, 35, who won Strictly Come Dancing last year with Holby City star Tom Chambers Mrs Mop: Kim Woodburn, 67 Soap: EastEnder Lucy Benjamin, 39 Singer: Sabrina Washington, 31 Rambo: Ex Page 3 girl Sam Fox, 43 Toothy: Hollyoaks Stuart Manning, 30 Property guru: Justin Ryan, 42 Camp fire: Colin McAllister, 41 Tanned: TV legend George Hamilton, 70 Cook-up: Chef Gino DAcampo, 34 Pot luck: Snookers Jimmy White, 47 Im a Z-lister... get me on that reality TV programmeITS called Im A Celebrity... but viewers will be forgiven for asking where are they, then? No Katie Price, no warring ex-husband Peter Andre, not even a fading Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson heading into the jungle. Instead, get ready to laugh and squirm at Stuart Manning, Gino DAcampo, Camilla Dallerup and Sabrina Washington. They will be among the 11 stars parachuted into the Australian Outback for the ITV1 show that starts this weekend. The Z-list line-up will come as a shock to many after appearance fees of 500,000 were touted before the start to land the biggest stars. But it sounds like there will be plenty of spats brewing on the camp stove within hours of their arrival. Telly chef DAcampo, 43, warned: I dont bully people to put me in charge. I like to put people in a situation where they think, We should let him do it. Meanwhile, former Page 3 model Sam Fox, 43, says forget Jungle Jane, shell be the camps tough girl. Ive always seen myself as a bit of a female Rambo. Ill jump out of a plane, no problem. What I am scared of is creepy, crawly, wriggly, horrible things, she said. Guess whos first up for the Bushtucker Trial? The money is already on former EastEnder Lucy Benjamin to win, with snookers Jimmy White second favourite. The odds are still on for Katie Price to make an appearance, however. Irish Christmas spending set to decrease by 20%IRELAND is no longer at the top of the Christmas spending league. Festive spending is set to fall by more than 20 per cent this year, pushing Ireland into second place in the European spending table be- hind Luxembourg. The annual Deloitte consumer survey of Christmas spending re- vealed the average Irish household will spend 1,110 this yuletide, 22 per cent less than we did last year. On average, each home will spend 660 on gifts, 30 per cent less than last year; 265 will be spent on food, six per cent less than last year; and 185 on socialising, 22 per cent less that last year. Susan Birrell, consumer business partner with Deloitte said anxiety was keeping consumers urge to spend in check. There can be little doubt that Christmas in Ireland has finally be- come a victim of the recession, she said. 74 per cent of people have said that they have less to spend and 61 per cent of Irish people will prepare a budget for their Christmas shop- ping this year. Of this 61 per cent grouping, 36 per cent will be first time budgeters this Christmas. Irish consumers are likely to be extremely prudent in their spending this year which is not likely to be welcome news to Irelands retailers. Three in five respondents intend buying products and gifts on sale, while 57 per cent say they will fo- cus on purchasing useful gifts. Books (52 per cent), clothes (49 per cent) and gift vouchers (46 per cent) are the most favoured presents adults in Ireland would like to re- ceive this year; while 42 per cent would like to receive cash as a present, yet only 19 per cent of peo- ple intend giving out hard cash. By ROSS McDONAGH Twitter father heads for TVA SON who tweeted the curmudgeonly observations of his 73-year-old father has had his Twitter account turned into a television sitcom. Sh*tmydadsays has attracted more than 730,000 followers and now Justin Halpern, the 29-year-old who started the account after moving back in with his parents in San Diego earlier this year, has a CBS pilot sitcom about a family blessed with a grumpy, foul-mouthed grandfather, in what is believed to be microblogging first. Mr Halpern (pictured) has also signed a deal with publisher Harper Collins for a book. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html