IM A CELEBRITY 2023

Best value hth ever?

Only if he wins

when do they turn him off

Fav upsets I've been on the right side of

Denise Welsh CBB 2012
Spoty, Lewis Hamilton beating fav Rory

Denise went to 7/1 in h2h. Lewis 10/1 before close.

Please let Tony be number three

Martin

Yeah lewis a cracker for me

AJ in spoty, 1.01 for t3 iirc

Rydian? Just before my time

not a hth tbf

lol Sam has no plans to speak to bellow again if there's no cameras

Much better interview for Tony, deserves the win

there was at least one big reverse in dancing on ice. involving the gymnast ?

Beth ?

Dec 10, 2023 -- 10:16PM, GeorgeBrush wrote:

Absolute knock out for tone on sm

Wasn't that the same for Ferne vs Vicky and market was identical to this one. Money buying on Vicky/Sam.

Yep, you just couldn't stop ferne drifting. But she came out third

Danny Miller vs Simon Gregson 2021 IAC

Suspicious as hell that one

Teddy T is trending

and for some reason so is turd

Dec 10, 2023 -- 10:29PM, GeorgeBrush wrote:

Yep, you just couldn't stop ferne drifting. But she came out third

SM had Ferne well on top but the market said Vicky can't be beaten, like Sam, and she won !

Nella

Ferne did the trial with the live spider. made no difference to the pv, actually lost ground

booo wd winners

Dec 10, 2023 -- 9:55PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

Bellew winnning would be integrity. He was 2.5 before the voting and is 7.0 in the final 2 despite a brilliant final trial and great final week in general. Just because there was a small blip before calling 3rd doesn't really mean anything overall imho

1.07        £497.54    £36.88
1.08        £20.00    £464.00
1.09            £1,706.57
1.1        £6.00    £454.22
1.11            £2,620.16
1.12        £0.14    £1,940.54
1.13            £3,633.71
1.14        £2.00    £11,501.98
1.15        £123.92    £14,756.80
1.16            £5,952.20
1.17            £3,115.64
1.18            £2,336.88
1.19            £3,150.15
1.2            £4,988.76
1.21        £100.00    £1,046.98
1.22            £1,102.47
1.23            £963.08
1.24            £4,055.06
1.25            £7,318.62

1.07 is pretty mental like

One of the worst winners ever. Pathetic and highly gullible public fooled once again.

I hope all of those who voted for him have Sam screaming in their ears for an eternity

Pity they stopped posting the vote%

A victory for the insiders, money buyers and casuals

And army seems to be dead again :(

Yes the most irritating winner of this thing, even trumps gino.

Not as bad as vicki imo

Sam is a nice lad. Tony the deserved winner though no doubt. Vicki was a diabolical winner.

Do we know? he assumed a character for the whole series. gets credit for pulling it off i suppose.

Important to identify who the casual viewer will like, not who we like. Screwwd me in previous years. Actually, the ones I don't like tend to win

Sam was always less marmite than this place thought. Still, i was mainly on bellew at the death

Well done winners.

Good series for betting,

Dull viewing bar final 3,fred and Nella.

All good fun as always, anyway Thankfully strictly and spoty likely to slightly better results

Farage had 3 weeks of negative edits and still finished 3rd, it’s gonna be Boris Johnson on next year for more of the same

Ant and dec have headed him off at the pass.

Plus it seemed farage reduced the ratings.  They won't do it again

Btw ... negative edits? That's just him

Johnson is a cross between Sam and Nigel....

He wouldn't pass the physical fortunately

I imagine with his clumsy nature that he would be a serious hazard to himself and others ! Also likely to scare off all the critters !

Rishi more likely. Could sleep on a leaf and actually do combat with a cockroach on equal bodyweight terms

Good evening people, well done early Sam backers . Over to the important stuff now!

Enjoy the latest farage defeat

1st or 3rd was perfect for me as I loaded up on Sam - Bellow SFs. And had some of the AP tickets for Farage.

I just mean on a personal level lol

About only contestant I got right on this series was Farage - backed him for top 3 (landed) laid him most heavily for the win (landed).

If that was all I'd done, would have been a much better overall result for me this series

ok well as I mentioned a few times, I felt he was a bit disappointing on the show. third was a decent showing considering that, and he was bashed by the production and script 90% of the time.

I don't get that... That was just farage, that's him being him

His vote wasn't relying on show performance though really was it - which is why he could bumble around doing not very much and stroll into the top 3.

No bits of him flying about like superman were edited out

It was two fold. He got the worst treatment. Body shaming for example. Even the exit interview was just loaded questions from tweedle dumb and dumber.

What about all the severely patronising life lessons and other chit chat?

Do we just edit all of that out?

No, you'd have balance. Nella was mostly vile, Fred was mostly vile, compare the soft soaping they got to the third place finisher. But I don't consider that especially notable, as it was inevitable.

Most people would say Nella and Fred suffered far worse from the edit. Farage was just exactly what i expected, no worse, no better

I think they toned down his bad treatment as that simply
fed the vote for Nigel story.

Would love to see voting figures.

Third Place - Sam 43.35%   Tony 30.87%   Nigel 25.78%

H2H -  Sam 56.64%    Tony 43.36%

Quite well clear of each other in both top 2 and winner battles then - wasn't much room for doubt there.

Nigel a clear 5% behind, and Tony well behind Sam in their battle, despite a small gap closing late on.

Actually, he didn't really close at all, so Sam was always safe...

exchange move before third place elimination was bizarre Dannydogdoo! Seeing those votes makes it even weirde!

Yes, interesting to see what could have happened had the H2H vote been open for a full day maybe, given he was able to close the gap in a short time frame.

yes, sorry my maths a bit unclear on that - he did close slightly from the split vote after Nigel I suppose...

Also completely agree Cider, Anthony and Declans questioning of Nigel at the end was loaded, obviously didn't matter by then but they had a clear agenda against him.

Yeah, not really close, a defeat for facey insta and even the sun poll.  Likely most of us too in terms of largest green

And a defeat for those whose politics is based on targeting minorities

was farage always in front of Tony then, till josie went ? and only then tony got in front, by then Sam had already won.

you'd assume so, farage was never in bottom 2 unlike Tony

Not sure we'll ever know. Tony may well have been ahead of Nigel for a number of votes. What baffles me is the pesky insiders were happy to lay Tony @ 100 before Farage was called 3rd and not Farage @ 6. They're clearly not very bright. Assuming they exist

yeh that exchange move was bizarre, was pointing to tony being first out

lol did see that flash up fig, thought he was gone. Sad to say but does look like there were insiders all along, it was just hard to accept for me coz of the way farage's price was kept down. was it insiders ? was it his team ? i'd say a combination of both working separately. which all mean't there was only brief glimpses in time mostly during the edits where big tony greens were ever able to take profit.
those waiting and not acting inplay looking for the optimum lay never had a chance, even in the H2H

If you're anti open boarders, I'd say that the legal UK population is in the minority compared to the rest of the world. Based on rudimentary maths.

#borders

I don't imagine much Josie vote shifting to Farage at all, something we'll never know, or how much she had from the bottom. But looks like it would have been pretty tight. Farage vote shifted to Tony quite a bit.

Yep about a 2% swing to Tony in the h2h

58.4% to 41.6% in the 3 way vote

H2H -  Sam 56.64%    Tony 43.36%

Mildly interesting how the winner lost the final vote if had been standalone. I wonder how the market would have priced it up.

on app vote and phone voting tony nige sam

no*

A highly enjoyable series both watching and trading and entertaining reading all the posts on here as well. I ended up in front but not by much as I made some shocking trades along the way.

Backing Fred @ 10.0 being one of them. What on Earth was I thinking about!

I think we can go round and round in circles, when it comes to the insider debate. The more interesting one to me is why Sam won, as I feel in the pre-app days Tony would have won and won easily. He was clearly the favourite of the fb mums
I think you've covered the reasons already, army
The app obviously skews the vote towards the under 30's. They've always been a decent percentage of the audience but probably didn't vote much before the app. So the mems picked the winner. Now they make up a large percentage of the vote

Dec 11, 2023 -- 1:12PM, SlippyBlue wrote:

A highly enjoyable series both watching and trading and entertaining reading all the posts on here as well. I ended up in front but not by much as I made some shocking trades along the way.Backing Fred @ 10.0 being one of them. What on Earth was I thinking about!

I backed him as low as 6, I think Happy to get out about level after that

I read somewhere, ds I think that the audience is skewed to under 35s.

you got it fig, that's the way it went down and josie never really had a chance from the beginning v Sam

Yep, but I suspect it's always been that way, cider. My nieces and nephews all watch it., While they'd never watch strictly

If they did Bobby would win

..and Zara wouldn't have been out early

i washed plenty of green down the toilet, had many many many chances to clean up had i traded early and not tried to be greedy. oh well

Lessons learnt We know to back the young tw@ts next year

lol oh yes fig

It was always dumb, but now a modern day tiswas.

That's me signing off now from special bets, same time next year people.

Best of luck one and all and a happy and healthy 2024.

I suppose also it is scripted reality, just like made in chelsea. I also thought this morning that boxers have to act up to sell fights to a audience, they take on a persona. So hamming it up at the trials came quite naturally to him.

Same to you SB

signing off fellas, pleasure

Dec 11, 2023 -- 1:13PM, five leaves left wrote:

I think we can go round and round in circles, when it comes to the insider debate. The more interesting one to me is why Sam won, as I feel in the pre-app days Tony would have won and won easily. He was clearly the favourite of the fb mumsI think you've covered the reasons already, armyThe app obviously skews the vote towards the under 30's. They've always been a decent percentage of the audience but probably didn't vote much before the app. So the mems picked the winner. Now they make up a large percentage of the vote

spot on mate. assume the app voting was in place for Vicky Pattison too?

Dec 11, 2023 -- 1:05PM, Cider wrote:

Mildly interesting how the winner lost the final vote if had been standalone. I wonder how the market would have priced it up.

That's far from certain from these figures. Sam could have also won the hth, just by a smaller margin.

You can't really tell without the number of votes

Yep, I imagine Sam wonder the h2h too. Surely most people will have only voted via the app. 5 votes for the top 3 and 5 in the h2h.

So the h2h could have been something like 52/48 Sam

Won * wonder? lol my brain is frazzled

Farage norrappy

Not entirely clear what is complaint is though.  Just letting off steam.  Still doesn't look likely to win an election soon