Jungle Janes Large It On Luxury Food

It is fantastic TV though, isn't it?

The, u-hum, larger lady huffing and puffing her way through the overgrowth certainly was a sight to see. And for those scenes of the ladies in the river...they could have warned me, I'd just eaten my tea!

Almost as funny as watching those PR Consultants and Motor Mechanics get wet (the poor dears...) on that Spanish mountain, in Bare Necesseties last night!

Alex, what are you talking about?

Jungle Janes of course, timely observation as the next epidode's on tonight...

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OutdoorsMagic Editor | jon@outdoorsmagic.com 

This programme really gets up my nose. Here you have a fine opportunity to show that women can hack it in the great outdoors, work as a team and really achieve something.

So what do C4 do? Give them a MALE leader and a squad of highly trained and jungle-familiar MALE Gurkhas to hold their hands. Throw in some titivating sub-porn river bathing scenes, and what you have is a not-too-bright substitute for all those lingerie-based 'documentaries' they've become so keen on recently.

I'm not knocking the individual women who took part. It's clear that for most of them it was a tremendous struggle to cope with everything that was thrown at them.

But wouldn't it have been so much better to have had an all-female team, and a little less hand-holding?

Joan, I do tend to agree with you. It's not as if there aren't women out there who would be capable of providing the skills they need. I really dislike the patronising, faux paternal tone the retired army guy adopts as well. It is strangely fascinating though and I don't just mean the bathing scenes.

The other thing is the way some of the participants are virtually invisible and hardly feature at all, while others are obviously selected as 'characters'. Maybe that's inevitable, but you get the feeling that there's a whole lot going on that we're not shown. Also, why's the emphasis always on the problems. Some of those lasses have obviously trained for the trip and must be going well, why not show us that and provide some positive role models? I really despair of men sometimes...

Jon

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OutdoorsMagic Editor | jon@outdoorsmagic.com