NBC’s bungle in the jungle known as "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" recently had supermodel-turned-crazy-Auntie Janice Dickinson and sister of reality TV star Heidi Montag, Holly Montag, voted off the Isla de D-List Estrellas.
NBC’s bungle in the jungle known as "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" recently had supermodel turned crazy Auntie Janice Dickinson and sister of reality TV star Heidi Montag, Holly Montag, voted off the Isla de lD-List Estrellas. © Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos
Well, the two ladies came baaaackk after the ousting.
It looks like Stephen Baldwin is the next drama case to be dealt as he bails on the "family" and leaves the show. Then, tonight (Monday) sees Holly and Janice dragged back to camp and paired in a reality "Sophie's Choice" for the remaining contestants, and the group all went with Holly.
Now, the faux romance between not gay Sanjaya and Holly will take up at least a half hour of tonight's episode.
You will also witness tarantulas crawling all over Lou Diamond Phillips face Monday night. The man has brass cojones.
The show is airing Monday for two-hours, then Tuesday and Wednesday. Wednesday is the finale.
Janice Dickinson and Holly Montag granted Monsters and Critics an interview along with some other online journalists the day after they were "removed" from the set.
Janice, did your conflict with John Salley worsen after he became the camp leader?
Janice Dickinson: We didn't see eye-to-eye at all, from the beginning, middle, or the end. Nevertheless, he is a four-time champion NBA ball player, who pushed a middle-aged woman out of the way during a trial. You don't push women out of the way for anything. So I didn't like being man-handled by Mr. Salley.
The producers sort of Shanghai-ed you a bit. They taped you urinating with an infrared while you were half-asleep and I'm just wondering how you feel about the production ethos that sort of targeted you?
Janice Dickinson: Here's the deal with the Producers of "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" I'm menopausing, all right? I've two teenaged children. It's hard to hold it in. I was well aware that there were cameras everywhere. Hopefully you didn't see something that needs vaginal rejuvenation. Hopefully that was all blurred out.
But I have night blindness. So the bathroom area was a good 250 feet away from our sleeping area and I am deathly afraid of snakes, rats, crocodiles, and anything else that crawls in the night.
So you know what? Every pregnant woman that's listening or reading this interview will understand that when you've got to go, you've got to go.
Right. So you were fully aware that they were taping you during all of the segments regardless? It didn't matter?
Janice Dickinson: You know what? If public urination is against anyone's -- if they don't like it then turn the television off.
Daniel Baldwin has some harsh things to say in his exit interview about you. And I was just wondering what your (impression) -- and it seemed like Stephen Baldwin pushed your buttons a bit at one point. I think you were just exhausted.
Janice Dickinson: You need to be specific. I don't know.
When you were with Stephen Baldwin in scene and you were crying and you were upset, and Stephen Baldwin was proselytizing you to become a born-again Christian, was that a genuine moment or were you just so worn out from the experience that you were just broken down?
Janice Dickinson: I am extremely happy for Stephen Baldwin,that he is a born-again Christian and his faith in his religion has worked for him.
I absolutely was not putting on airs for the camera. I was extremely sick with bronchitis. I was extremely ill under thunder and run, under duress. Under every kind of unimaginable things, which is the premise of the greatest show on television, because it creates your -- it brings out the fear in you.
Stephen was just trying to help with his faith. But I reassured him that my foundation is firm with who I believe in. I'm a Catholic. My kids have a firm foundation. He was just trying to help.
Holly, your face, a picture says a thousand words and the expression on your face when Sanjaya was explaining his gay best friend theory to you -- was priceless. And I was just wondering, you looked like you were trying to just kind of hang in there.
I know that you and Sanjaya are very good friends, but I mean did you have a genuine attraction to him?
Holly Montag: Oh, yes. He's a very attractive person. He's talented and he's great looking. He's got all the qualities any girl would be attracted to Sanjaya, I think.
So you wouldn't be opposed to dating him after the show?
Holly Montag: I don't know. We'll see about that. I'm kind of liking this Sanjolly ring to it. But no, I think we're just best friends and that's where we're keeping it for now.
Janice, what were you thinking when you ate that granola bar?
Janice Dickinson: You mean the one that I nipped from the medical office? When I ate that granola bar in the doctor's office, because I hadn't had any food for two weeks, I felt it my duty and I broke a rule in my religion. I'm a Catholic -- thou shalt not steal.
There were other celebrities in that jungle and against everyone's rule, I took those cookies back to camp and I threw them at everybody to share. It was like if I had something I had to share it with my teammates.
Janice, who do you think will take the win for this show?
Janice Dickinson: My vote goes to Lou Diamond Phillips for the reasons being that he's 100% a gentleman. He absolutely is a marvelous father, a courteous man, and a great parent. This is man who is genuine. He's not singing 24-7 to promote his records. He is honest. He is everything and then some.
And congratulations to "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" for putting me in contact with Holly and Lou. Because everybody else they can go dance in the river.
Holly Montag: Yes. Lou is just, they don't make gentlemen like that anymore. He is just upstanding in every way.
Janice Dickinson: Yes they do. His name is Nathan Fields and he's my son.
Holly Montag: Oh, yes. Of course. Your son, of course.
What about Sanjaya?
Janice Dickinson: I'm still close to Sanjaya. Sanjaya is everything (right). I concur with what Ms. Holly said. He's everything (right). He's (right-spirited). He against all odds had his (stick) on American Idol. He's working arduously on his music. Obviously it's been 24 hours a day listening to Sanjaya for two weeks, 24 hours, it has been a -- you know what? I'm going to go get my ears checked.
How do you both feel about Heidi and Spencer returning to the jungle?
Janice Dickinson: Heidi and Spencer are the greatest amateurs I've ever met. They are amateurs at reality television. It's easy to play a bitch. It's easy to be a witch.
But Heidi and Spencer will go on to do great things. If they come back on, I hope they come back because I'm not done with Spencer.
Holly Montag: I was glad that they gave it another shot, you know. It's difficult. People don't realize that for a couple, especially newlyweds who haven't even really had a honeymoon, Basically, you're honeymooning, you have not privacy, and you feel ill.
I know Janice felt really ill and she hung in there. And I'm so proud of her for that. I can't even imagine how difficult it was to be in those extreme circumstances and be ill.
But, I don't blame them. It's their choice. They were able to leave but at least they gave it one more shot and I know it didn't make the other campers very happy. But, at least they gave it another go before they split.
Janice Dickinson: Look, these two Montag girls are Colorado mountain chicks with hearts of gold and completely spiritual. Heidi ate rat tails and Heidi hung in there and she did everything she could to win for her charity. She's 100% Mother Teresa.
Janice, are you tired of dishwashing?
Janice Dickinson: I don't know how old you think I am, but I've been washing dishes since the 19th century. I'm not kidding you. My dishwashing skills? You know, the Montags may have grown up poor -- we didn't have money for toilet paper. I became a model when I was 18. I had to go to New York City and claw my way up to the top, to coin the term super model and then open doors for girls like Cindy Crawford and the rest is history.
I have two children. and I work for the Annenberg Foundation for the homeless. I'll continue to wash any dish, wash, stock, whatever I can do to help charity.
Janice, I'm just wondering how different was this experience for you to the U.K. one, which you won?
Janice Dickinson: You know what "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!", the show that you're seeing right now on television, sorry (ma Holly), I have my own franchise -- Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency Show. It was on Oxygen.
"I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" -- it is the greatest show on earth. The show was paved with actors with the caliber of Lou Diamond Phillips. I guess Daniel Baldwin is a D-List. Stephen Baldwin, I don't know, he's a C-List, D-List. They are not Academy Award winners.
It's the greatest show on earth, putting John Salley, who will get to, you know. And Torrie, like a mud wrestler. I mean it was unbelievably cast.
It did work out. I went into the jungle after being immunized to get to Costa Rica with Hepatitis A, B, C, typhoid, malaria, and I contracted secondary malaria infections in the jungle while I got there under torrential rain and lightning storms, going in the mud, sticking my hands in with those crocodiles. You can't believe the arduous - how difficult the situation is for the people on the show. That's why the show is so great to watch.
Janice-how much of what we saw was you, not a put on?
Janice Dickinson: There was no acting on my part. I'm not an actress. A good representation? Yes. That's who I am.
Lizzie Grubman: Can I interrupt for a second? I am Janice's publicist. You were sick most of the time.
Janice Dickinson: All right, that's -- I was sicker than a dog through secondary infections from being immunized, bronchial. I was under medication night and day. It was torrential rain storms. I was getting thrown in crocodile pits. You know, they filmed all sorts of situations. It's the greatest show on television.
I wanted to win for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Research Foundation. I wanted to win that thing more than anything.
I was sicker than a dog in heat. No, I can't tell you -- going through menopause and getting sick from having malaria reactions. How would you feel?
Well, I did it because there has to be a cure for Elizabeth Glaser's -- we've got to find a cure for AIDS.
Janice. you said Sanjaya was going to do okay and Stephen would not, Do you still hold that?
Janice Dickinson: Stephen's an idiot. Sanjaya is 19 years old. Sanjaya could rule the world. What were you like when you're 19? I don't know, Sanjaya could be my son. Nathan Fields is 22. Boys will be boys. He is singing 24-7. He is lighter than air. God bless him. Bring on Bollywood.
What did you think before you actually went down there and got on the show?
Holly Montag: Oh, it was far better than anything I had ever expected. I went in just thinking that the challenge would be fun and it would be a great way to bring attention to a hometown charity that is very important to me. And that was my goal going in there. And I came out with, you know, several lifetimes of knowledge, I think from such unbelievably amazing people that are moguls in their fields and legends. And I couldn't ask for a better experience. I could not have even dreamed of it.
Janice Dickinson: I think Holly Montag was the most real.
Holly Montag: Thanks, mama.
Janice Dickinson: I'm not your mama.
Holly Montag: You're my God mama.
Janice Dickinson: I'm not your God mama. Stop with all those religions.
Janice, the argument that you and John Salley had over the zucchini, what happened with that?
Janice Dickinson: Do you really want the truth? John Salley is on the show to promote a cooking show or branding his recent induction into veganism.
I was vegan for 25 years. I got to eat. I had problems on that show because all my objections from malaria. And to eat rice for two straight weeks, it'll plug anyone or anything up. So the doctor ordered that I get green vegetables. It's John Salley's world and I'll leave it at that.
He wouldn't let me go near anything. I can cook. I can out-cook anybody in the world. Get me a show.
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