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Laurina steals some chicken salt, learns the jungle is a very, very cruel place.

 

Forget being bitten on the head by an anaconda snake or drinking an entire pureed rat in a tucker challenge or hanging upside down with a maggots down your pants, the real challenge in Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!  is doing absolutely nothing all day and being hungry as you do absolutely nothing all day.

And it’s not only making people grumpy (hello Shane Warne, Val Lehman and Anthony Callea) – it’s making them ready to go to war over three sachets of KFC salt.

It’s amazing what chicken salt can do, including causing sinners to miraculously turn into saints (but you already knew that).

Let’s fill you in before we get to the strange holier-than-though re-birth of Shane, Brendan Fevola and Anthony.

The fallout from salt-gate was substantial…

Last night Laurina Fleure brought into the camp three sachets of KFC salt that she had pilfered from an earlier challenge where her victorious team got to eat a bucket of chicken for winning a tug-o-war.

There’s no salt in camp and Laurina thought everyone would love it. She told Havana Brown, who was desperately missing salt and she was the most excited person (in the category of people who wear a belt for a headband).

“We were at the rewards last night and I saw there were a couple of sachets of salt on the table and Val and Havana have especially missed salt in their diet so I thought I would bring back the salt and sneak it in to tonight’s dinner.”

But Laurina was wrong.

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She was already in the poo for throwing water on the fire the night before and delaying breakfast by an hour and a half until a new flame could take. [The former Bachelor star is getting on a few of her camp mates’ nerves and we can’t help but wonder if there is some whacky editing going on. She seems to be loud and absolutely no wallflower when it comes to stating her opinion and sticking up for herself, but there isn’t huge swathes of television evidence showing her to be a complete pain in the arse. The only indication viewers get that she’s grating is from the “chats” between other camp mates….]

So Laurina brings in the contraband. The Chief alerts the camp after getting a letter written on a school tuckshop bag from TV producer authorities. Yes, Laurina doesn’t own up straight away, but within minutes she does and Havana and Laurina give the salt back.

“Just hang with each other a little more with the rules. Roll on” was The Chief’s low-key yet slightly disappointed dad response.

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Val. Image via Channel 10.
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Val tells her to just “follow the rules”. Anthony, at first, does his cold schtick toward her. Brendan is grimacing like he is auditioning for commedia dell’arte. Shane sulks saying, “I know we’ve all had enough but I’ve really had enough. I’m ready to steam.”

The Chief thinks Shane’s bad mood all comes back to understanding what it is to be a team player, meaning Laurina isn’t one.

Anthony talks in the special talking room that looks like the front of a one of those foot massage places: “You know, you can’t teach someone respect. You can’t teach someone how to think of others.” Then tells Bonnie he doesn’t think she ever intended to share the salt.

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#saltgate. Image via Channel 10.
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“Why give her the benefit of the doubt, she’s already stuffed up the camp.” According to Anthony she’s “rude, ignorant disrespectful, spiteful” and nothing comes from a good place (especially not the salt sachets).

Like two schoolgirls being asked to take some books back to the library during class, Brendan and Anthony wander the jungle collecting firewood while discussing Laurina’s issues. She’s “spoilt” and “disrespectful”. (BTW: They nearly get caught venting by Laurina and Dean who are doing there own venting.)

Bonnie tells the foot massage place that, “There’s no end to what she will try.”

“I got it for everyone to share and if we had gotten away with it everyone would have been very happy about it,” Laurina said after she was caught. “But we didn’t get away with and it didn’t go down with as much gratitude as I hoped for.”

It certainly didn’t.  At least she still has Dean and Havana on her side, but we suspect one of them will be voted out this Sunday.

So Laurina: watch your blow-up couch. It could get a nasty puncture soon.

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