We should be ashamed for desperate celebrity OAPs

Nov 16 2008 Sunday Mercury

We should be ashamed for desperate celebrity OAPs

wWE ARE constantly being told of the agonies of loneliness and isolation suffered by old people.

We are told that tens of thousands of pensioners go days on end without speaking to another human being or even leaving their homes. But clearly the situation is getting worse.

We have already had to witness the waddling antics of tubby former TV newsman John Sergeant, 64.

For the sake of a little attention he is weekly humiliating himself on the BBCTV show Strictly Come Dancing.

Now we are told that Esther Rantzen, 68, and former Midlands TV chatshow host Robert Kilroy-Silk, 66, are to expose themselves to the embarrassment and discomfort of ITV’s reality show, I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here.

Presumably these forgotten OAPs have agreed to demean themselves by eating grubs and sleeping out in the jungle not just because they are desperate for some sort of human contact but because a week or two in Australia will save them on winter heating bills.

The nation should be ashamed.