I was so pleased yesterday to watch the departure of Amy Willerton from the jungle. This delayed 'positive' far outweighed the surprise that came with Joey accompanying her. Still, in theory, she was 5th and he was 4th, and it was only the ITV planning and TV schedules that led to them actually coming out at the same time [I don't mean in the Tom Daley way].
My minor sense of triumph was mainly down to a couple of reasons:
1 - Amy has from the very beginning displayed a sense of laziness, entitlement and selfishness that is collectively either inbred, and so is a 'default' set of attitudes, or worse, learned and so has thus been adopted as a way of life. Sadly this is not untypical of many in the public eye these days. Amy was content to loaf around, preen and refuse to see let alone accept that she was not really pulling her weight. As for being "only 21" as some critics have emphasised, I say 'irrelevant'. An adult with the earning power dictated by ITV's appearance money is someone who should be rather more aware - generally.
2 - She has a strange ability to twist the truth and/or the impressions given to others. I have no idea if she is vague, deluded, drippy, spiteful, selfish, dozy or what. Whatever the case may be, there's a belligerence that oozes from her, and a manner that accompanies it - a manner that rubs people up the wrong way. So, whether she manages to seem an innocent victim when relaying some or other altercation, or manages simply to lie in an outright manner, Amy is not being honourable. Hiding things that she should not have in camp, and then lying about having handed them all over is hardly endearing. "Getting away with things" now seems to be a new setting on some people's moral compasses, and Amy has displayed this perfectly in the last couple of weeks. Alfonso tried to help her by indicating what was "the right thing to do". Even then, and right to the time of her departure, the getting caught was the only faux pas she committed, from her perspective.
I suggest that modelling is perhaps the best line of 'work' for, as it will allow her to adopt the cliche approach of being a bit vacuous and vague, expecting everything to be done for her, and to concentrate on looking okay. That will of course do a disservice to any models who break that mold and do in fact display good ethics and abilities other than simply being photographed. As for the cries that she was "picked on", crap! Flanagan on IACGMOOH Now suggested on many occasions that the others in camp should have mothered her or looked out for her, and I was pleased when Andy Peters sitting next to her disagreed each and every time. Maybe Amy will watch the shows now, assuming she gets all the footage shown to her (I'm sure she'll want to review how she looked etc) and see that she was rather to obsessed with herself and not generally thinking of the group. Perhaps she'll be able to remember which of tears she shed were real, and which were attention-seeking whimpers (aside from the occasion when she joined in with supposed crying but had eyes drier than Ghandi's flipflop).
I feel that Alfonso's comments yesterday will, when clocked by Amy, go some way to highlighting how she managed to cause grief. The test will be whether Amy adopts a "little old me" whine like Penelope Pitstop, or a head on adult approach to her misguided comments and actions.
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