THE Winter Olympics are just around the corner, so there’s no better time than now to throw a bunch of vaguely recognisable celebrities down a ski slope at a hundred miles an hour.
The latest product off the reality TV conveyor belt is The Jump, except that was probably the wrong name for it as the contestants are yet to attempt anything vaguely resembling a gravity defying leap.
So far, they’re only good enough for the baby jump which, despite being utterly terrifying for amateurs, the 15-metre slope just doesn’t look it on the box.
Much more fun is the skeleton run, which saw Sinitta have a complete meltdown at the thought of hurtling down the ice on her face.
During practice, Henry Conway – the son of a former MP who caused a stir when his lad was overpaid to work for him in case you also wondered – broke a bone and left in floods of tears.
And the least said about the bumpy rides of former sportsmen Sir Steve Redgrave and Darren Gough the better.
With the introduction of ever more scary sports, things are looking up for The Jump.
The winter sports show is still on the nursery slopes less than a week in.
But the more tears, tantrums and terror for those Z listers, the more I think I might get to like it.
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