Telly Talk: Poor Lembit – if ever someone was crying out to be butt of everyone’s joke it’s the former Montgomeryshire MP. That’s when he is not irritating the hell out of them.

As the boys settled in at Camp Bruce you could see immediately that Lembit was going to swing, and not in a political sense, from being the source of amused curiosity to fuelling incandescent rage.

I mean, to spark such a fuming outburst from the normally suave Nigel Havers – the charmer who was the only one to offer  everyone a drink at the glitzy introductions – must have taken some doing. And Lembit did thanks to a rather ungraceful exit from the canoe the boys were powering towards camp.

Havers ended up drenched in swamp water and a sulky-looking Lembit insisted it wasn’t his fault; he’d learned the rules of such an exit somewhere in a Leicestershire boating lake, I think. I’m not sure why the location was of particular relevance, bearing in mind you couldn’t have been further away from it last night, but the politician’s greatest friend – the denial – didn’t do him any favours.

It certainly wasn’t the way to win friends and influence people. Or to set the groundwork, when he loses, to form a coalition with someone else who doesn’t win. Then again, after losing his seat earlier this year that’s not a skill we were necessarily expecting from Mr Lembit on his latest bid for the public vote – which at least he won last night as he was chosen for the next Bushtucker Trail- the Crate Escape.

Whether that victory will bring him any comfort as he tries to emerge from a crate below ground inhabited by bugs and nasties is anyone’s guess. Although Westminster should have provided him with some practice.

It’s a brave move to take on the jungle, and while his opening gambit may have left Lembit vulnerable for all sorts of reasons at least he provided the inspiration for the most interesting campfire chatter last night – or, at least, his lovelife did.

The boys certainly perked up when asking about his former girlfriend Gabriela from the Cheeky Girls, prompting a certain appreciation from athlete Linford Christie.

Unfortunately the girls are beating Lembit hands down in terms of appealing to the viewers. Forgetting Gillian McKeith, who frankly won’t last the distance anyway, the girls are either the queens of getting on with it without a fuss or trotting out the unwitting one-liners for our amusement.

Stacey Solomon is the star of the show so far – “His willy is smaller than mine”, she said as she faced eating the kangaroo testicle in the first challenge – suggesting some classic moments to come.

I’m a Celebrity is back and so far so good. Now it’s just up to Lembit to make his exit from that crate as quickly as he does from some of his relationships.