Patti Blagojevich was finally voted off "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!" after more than three weeks of campaigning for sympathy in the Costa Rican jungle. Judging by the reaction of her campmates, it worked. They praised her with language usually reserved for a beauty pageant's Miss Congeniality award. Not one of them used the words "corruption," "racketeering" or "extortion."
"You've really won over the heart of America," said host Damien Fahey.
Patti had enough votes to make it to the final five, but was ultimately ousted along with "American Idol's" Sanjaya Malakar.
In the words of her co-celebrities:
"You're one of the strongest women I've ever met," said Sanjaya.
"The strength that you've shown, the reserve and the poise, not only in the face of everything that's happened here but in the face of everything that has happened back home for you... You are truly, truly an admirable woman."
And her jungle BFF, John Salley, gushed that Patti is "one of the most beautiful women I've ever met, and she's like a kindred soul."
At the very least, said John, "She doesn't seem to be a person that is a thief."
The plucky Patti glowed as though she had gotten away for a spa weekend. "Once you've been able to survive 25 days in the jungle, I think that anything that life throws at you from here on out is gonna seem easy," she said.
When she reflected back on her tarantula-eating, mud-flailing, weepy television stint, Patti said that her favorite memory was when she almost got swept away by a river. "The best part of it was being able to get out of it myself," she said. "Even though I got into a huge mess, I was able to get out myself." Is she hoping to one day say that about her political purgatory, too?
Thursday night, John Salley, Torrie Wilson and Lou Diamond Phillips will battle it out for the title of King or Queen of the Jungle.
She is seriously hot. I will miss the daily updates showing her on the news every morning..
You people have absolutely no room to judge people! Patti B. may have made a bad decision but that doesn't mean she is a bad person! Anyone who can post something as vile as the comments you people have posted are the ones who should be tortured. If you think that Patti B. is a bad person at least she doesn't spend her free time dissecting people that she doesn't even know into a waste of space! And to Hmm: I have searched my mind and I cannot find anything that would make YOU, a regular, unknown, nobody think that you have ANY room whatsoever to call those known, rich celebrities D-listers! Did NBC call you up to be on "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!"? I didn't think so! If they're D-listers, then you're most definately a Z-lister! Do you people not know what respect is? I am 13 years old and I know right and wrong better than you do!
I truly am confused why anyone from Illinois would not want to see the Rod or Patty B in the jungle. I was disheartened to hear that Rod couldn't go. I anticipated seeing him eat bugs, get gooey, bit mercilessly by insects and above all get his hair hoplessly dirty. When Lou Diamond had his hand blindly gnawed on by rats, I was secretly wishing it was Rod.
The 'game' has to be formulated by some masochistic sick people. The torture, the rice and beans, humiliating and competing for a meal every night...why wouldn't anyone want to see Rod crawl around in muck...or even better watch the camp mates scheme to kill him during the night. They thought the model was a chatterbox...
And I am truly disappointed that the nation did not get to see the Patty B that we know and distrust, I anticipated seeing her snap and "m*****k somebody".
Yet more proof that celebrities are idiots. How does doing a television show in the jungle with a bunch of pampered d-listers make up for abusing the trust of the people of Illinois?
To bad an anaconda didn't have her for lunch. Now that would have been woth watching.
Thank God, she is gone. I pledged never to watch that show is she or Rod were on it.