2012, first episode, review Nadine Dorries claimed she wanted to go on I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here to get ordinary people talking about politics (any resulting publicity is an unwelcome side effect, obviously) but it's quite hard to get an intellectual discussion going about the NHS when you're being suspended over a ravine and a Coronation Street actress in a very skimpy bikini just won't stop shrieking. Although Dorries has already been set up as the villain of the series - the twelfth run of the jungle reality show, would you believe - she actually didn't get much airtime in the first episode. She might have made a big impact by swishing around in a maxi dress and sipping cocktails with a face full of immaculate makeup during the "meet your new enemies" schmoozing session, but by the time the gang actually arrived in the "jungle" (which looks more like a slightly overgrown corner of Center Parcs), she found herself vying for the cameras with nine other attention-hungry celebrities with similarly loud voices. The term "celebrity" is, as ever, used loosely. Dorries, boxer David Haye and soap actresses Charlie Brooks and Helen Flanaghan are really the only four who are currently in the public eye. Apart from them, we have two relative newbies looking to raise their profiles (Pussycat Doll Ashley Roberts and Made In Chelsea's Hugo Taylor) and a load of old-timers upping the kitsch value and topping up their retirement funds; Doctor Who actor Colin Baker, darts "legend" Eric Bristow, actress Linda Robson and entertainer Brian Conley. Yes, it's a classic reality show blend; not the best we've ever seen, but with plenty of interesting and slightly tragic characters to keep us intrigued once all the initial commotion is over. It sounds like the shrieking will continue for a while yet though, since Helen Flanaghan, who appears to even be phobic of her own fingers, has been selected, along with Dorries, to take part in an ominous Bushtucker Trial called Bug Burial, which we'll get to see on tomorrow night's show. Ant and Dec are delighted, of course; they clearly have a whole new repertoire of political analogies involving rats, creepy crawlies and slime to unleash. To start with, I'm A Celebrity... is always about the ickiness of the early tasks, because the contenders are still on best behaviour and keeping their egos hidden in their sleeping bags. Give it a few days and the sight of an MP chomping on a kangaroo's rubbery bits will seem pretty dull compared to all the inevitable petty squabbles over food and sleeping habits. Being in the jungle, even if it is a jungle built by enthusiastic ITV interns, brings out the absolute worst in people so, better still, we can also look forward to the kind of "but she said that you said" dramarama that always ensues when ten people who are used to getting their own way are deprived of sleep, food and, most terrifyingly of all, designer cosmetics. At the end of the first show, Nadine Dorries did actually manage to engage her fellow campers in a vaguely political discussion and announced, much to several million viewers" relief, that she didn't ever want to be Prime Minister. But at this early stage it seems even less likely that she'll be crowned Queen of the Jungle instead.