I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here

Since it premiered last week, NBC's I'm a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! has been generating headline after headline — mostly of the Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt variety. The latest controversy is that Heidi and Spencer claim they were tortured in an isolation chamber as punishment for trying to leave the show, leading to Heidi being hospitalized with an ulcer — a story sources on the show are denying. Even before that, the pair had already quit and unquit the show, which features contestants performing various challenges (many involving rats and spiders) in the Costa Rican jungle.

Not only has the show been making entertainment headlines, it's also been dominating NBC's schedule — and this week looks to be no different, with the show set to air two-hour installments tonight and Wednesday and another episode on Thursday. Have you gotten caught up in the controversy? Or are you avoiding the show and anything to do with it?

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If you've watched NBC over the past couple of weeks, you've probably seen some of the many ads for I'm a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! The reality series starts tonight and finds celebrities (and, um, semi-celebrities) including Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt, Janice Dickinson, Stephen Baldwin, and Sanjaya Malakar fending for themselves in the jungle of Costa Rica.

The show is interactive — viewers help control what the celebs have to do in the jungle — and seems like it could have a lot of trainwreck potential. But it's a pretty significant time commitment (it airs 15 times between now and its June 24 finale), and even Heidi and Spencer have complained about the caliber of the "stars" NBC recruited for the show.

So I'm wondering: Is this one you're sitting down to watch tonight? Will you pass altogether? Or will you TiVo the episodes and save them up for some dull Saturday?

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Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt could not have seemed more excited to head to Costa Rica for I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, but their silly photo shoots have quickly become a thing of the past. Apparently the couple has already threatened to quit the show after they weren't given special treatment and have had a number of on camera breakdowns. The competition premieres today, so they are freaking out just in time for their big debut. But tell us — will you tune in to watch tonight?

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