November 24th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Christopher Biggins, Lynne Franks
I’m A Celebrity campmates, Biggins and Lynne have said they both hope Janice doesn’t become Queen of the Jungle with the PR guru branding her “mean” and “obnoxious”.
As they were getting ready for an adventure retrieving the Celebrity Chest, Lynne said: “It’s Janice that I want to kill again today, She takes over, I hate her. They (viewers) must like her, they keep voting her in, as long as they can see she is obnoxious. On Jonathan Ross she was amazingly obnoxious.”
Biggins said: “She’s funny and she’s amusing.” Read more & comment »
November 22nd, 2007 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Lynne Franks
The boyfriend of PR guru, Lynne Franks has claimed that the shows editors are making her look stupid in the jungle, so much so that he has stopped watching the show.
John Amy told the Mirror: “Lynne is very successful but they’ve made her into a bit of a laughing stock on the show. She’s not like that at all in real life.
“Everything she’s showing on there, like the chanting and the positive thinking, actually works. It works for her and for other people. The producers have focused on one aspect of her, but there’s more to her than that.
“I didn’t like the way it was edited. They made her look like a complete idiot.” Read more & comment »
November 18th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Lynne Franks
Paranoid Lynne has decided one of her campmates has got it in for her after her coat went missing and her hairclip got broken.
As the contestants woke, Lynne discovered her coat was missing and it sparked a debate about where it could have gone.
Lynne was sat on Janice’s bed as the discussion unfolded. Rodney said to Janice: “If you have hidden it under your bed just to piss her off.”
Janice snapped: “I wouldn’t do that.”
Lynne said: “There’s a big lump under me.”
Janice snarled: “It’s my sleeping bag, there’s a big lump around your waist.” Read more & comment »
November 18th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Janice Dickinson, Lynne Franks
Janice and Lynne were forced to work as a team for the Bushtucker Trial as Lynne sported a suit covered in ostrich food and was lowered into a pen of hungry ostriches by Janice.
As the pair turned up to do the trial Janice saw the birds and yelled: “Are you kidding me? Are we going to have to ride those puppies?”
Ant and Dec then asked Janice what she thought the trial – named Nip and Pluck - involved.
Janice replied: “I thought it was a hot plastic surgeon. I was happy to come today.”
Ant explained: “Basically it’s very simple this trial, it’s like a game arcade grab machine. You know those machines where you use the claw and you grab things then you move it back? It’s like one of those but instead of little fluffy toys we have these ostriches.
“The pair of you has to work together as a team. One of you will be operating the claw from here, the other will be the claw. You will sit on this chair and you’ll be moved around by the operator and you have to collect the stars with your feet and put them in the basket at the other end of the pen. All of this while wearing the ostrich food suit.” Read more & comment »
November 14th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Janice Dickinson, Lynne Franks
Lynne and Janice’s truce was broken yet again with a row over wood for the campfire. Lynne was worried that they might run out of logs overnight and was fussing around camp.
“Go get the wood,” Janice told Lynn. Lynn snapped back. “All right Janice, That’s the kind of thing that makes me want to go over and tip your bed over. Fuck off!” Lynne left the camp to look for wood and shouted to Janice: “You’ve been very bratty again this afternoon.”
Janice was clearly riled by Lynne’s comments and said to J: “You and I have been on to it all day. Get off your fat ass and do it (about Lynne).” Read more & comment »
November 10th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Lynne Franks
Lynne Franks sees taking part in I’m A Celebrity as a great challenge and says she’s doing it both for herself and other women of her age: “The older woman, that’s who I’m doing it for – me and them,” she confesses.
Lynne is one of the best-known public PR consultants in the world, she’s a commentator on women’s issues and an entrepreneur and author.
She is reputedly the inspiration for Edina in Absolutely Fabulous although she says: “If people think I’m coming on as Edina, well, it was never me in the first place, but there were aspects, there were definitely aspects. I might even say ‘sweetie-darling’ a few times.”
Although she’s lived an incredibly varied and successful life, Lynne says she can’t think of any practical skills she can use in the camp.
“I’m completely impractical. I’ll volunteer to do what I have to do but I’m not the greatest cook in the world. The skills that I’m taking are just more the wisdom of the older woman. I wouldn’t have a clue how to make a fire. Don’t they give matches?“
Although confessing to a lack of practical skills, Lynne did battle against the elements on a trip to the Amazon two years ago. Read more & comment »