'I'm a Celebrity': Sayonara, Sanjaya

Which three celebrities will be left for tomorrow night's big finale of "I'm a Celebrity?"

The celebrities kick things off with a Reminiscing Montage. Can't believe it's over blahblah biddy blah, I'm so sobby, give me a scone.

Product Placement Time. A scroll is delivered that announces they have been given toothpaste and toothbrushes from Colgate. They've spent new Wisp Brushes, which require no water or rinsing.

So, I really hate product placement on shows like this (like when Jeff Probst goes, "Come talk to your family on our Sprint Pepsi Nike cell phone while you drink an ice-cold Coca-Cola and eat some Domino's pizza") but I have to say... for a long car/bus/plane trip, those toothbrushes would kick ass.

Food Trial. It's called "Catch a Crawling Star," which is my favorite title thus far. That's delightful. It makes me think of the kids' pageant from Love Actually. The gist is each celeb pulls themself across a zip line and grabs flags along the way. Dropped flags are a 15 second time penalty. Weirdly, the teams are paired, so how does that work with 5 celebs? Man, I'm with Torrie... this would be freaky. I don't like heights.

John and Torrie are the first two competitors and he reassures her that if she falls, he'll zip down like Spiderman and save her. It's very sweet. In this heat, John starts off really quickly but is still very encouraging of Torrie. The next pairing is Lou and Sanjaya. I'm still unclear as to how Patti fits in to all this. Sanjaya is like a monkey on his zip line, but Lou makes it pretty close.

Now Patti has to go alone because there are five of them. Man, that sucks. It's harder to race when you have no one to compare yourself to. Plus, it'd be scarier. She ends up falling off and dropping two flags, so that's a 30 second penalty on top of how slow she ended up going. The times are 5:14 for Patti, 1:58 for Sanjaya, 2:50 for Torrie, 2:20 for Lou and 2:10 for John, so Sanjaya and John get a gourmet meal that night.

Jungle Awards Time. There are 13 awards, one for each celeb, and the remaining celebs get to make them up. John gets the Cook Award, Patti gets the I'm a Celebrity Now Award (ha!), Sanjaya gets the Eternal Music Award (or "Infernal" as Lou says), Lou gets the Entertainer Award (he thanks the academy and says it's the only time in his life he'll get to say that, which is hilarious), and Torrie gets the More Than Just a Pretty Face Award. Awww. She says, "I'm happy to accept the 'I am Not a Pretty Face Award'" and everyone laughs. Hee.

Janice gets the Do You Know Who I Am Award and Spencer gets the Best Spence-Out Award (Lou does the acceptance for it and my boyfriend says, "Wow, is Spencer back?"). We don't get to find out the others, which is too bad.

Elimination Time. Damien heads into camp to reveal the first eliminated contestant. He tells Torrie that she is safe (YAY!), then tells Lou that he's safe (YAY!) and then Sanjaya is our first eliminated contestant. Wow, I'm surprised. He's been so likeable on this show. Ah well.

Sanjaya stops by the studio to chat with Myleene. Apparently Sanjaya feels like he's grown up during the experience. From "jungle boy to rainforest man." Heh heh. Do you supposed he touched his first boob or something? Speaking of boobs, Myleene pumps him for info about Holly, but I really think the situation is that he likes-likes Holly but Holly only likes him as a friend.

Elimination Time II. The next contestant going home is Patti. Well, good. Sorry, but I'm not the biggest fan of the pimp job this show has done of "poor Patti and her misunderstood husband." I just don't like how it's been nothing but sympathy for her, even though her husband is pretty much a scumbag. Talk about poisoning the jury pool for his trial. Blech.

Patti joins the hosts in the studio. She does mention that they have a reunion planned for next year at this time, they want to go camping in Colorado. That's adorable. They also mention that Patti's become a "hot mom" on the internet during this show. I don't know that I totally agree with that. I mean, to me she's just a mom. Nice looking, momish. Not a MILF or anything. Patti also says she hopes Torrie wins it for all the girls. Yes! Girl power.

This is a great Final Three. Lou, Torrie and John have been good competitors and fun to watch, I'm glad it's down to them.

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