Is it just me or does tellyland seem to be wall-to-wall toffs at the moment?

The past month it seems no new show is complete without at least one tweed-wearing, cut-glass-accented aristocratic buffoon for us all to marvel at.

It’s a bit like attending the Tory party conference, but less ridiculous.

Maybe the hard-drinking and extremely likeable stars of Gogglebox (Friday nights 9pm – still genius) – Steph and Dom – AKA “the posh couple”, surprised programme-makers by winning the hearts of a nation, prompting an avalanche of landed gentry to come tumbling on to our screens?

Let’s face it, Brits aren’t world-leaders in many things any more, but we do seem to have the monopoly on bonkers blue-bloods.

Channel Four seems to have come up trumps with You Can’t Get The Staff (Tuesdays, 9pm), which features a roster of high-society nobs.

These range in sanity from Princess Olga Romanoff, granddaughter of Tsar Alexander III, who is flogging the family jewels on eBay to make ends meet (and with whom you’d happily share a pint) to the surely sectionable Lady Colin Campbell, usually seen in a crown administering monologues about how some people were put on this planet to serve her.

The fourth episode (now on 4oD) featured the nutty but nice Sir Benjamin Slade of Maunsley House in Somerset. And if he looks familiar you might recognise him from Channel Four’s woeful How Rich Are You? which I ranted about last week.

During that bunfight the studio clapped wildly at Sir Ben, telling people to get off their, er, flipping bottoms, and work, before unemployed Cody retorted that spiralling costs of living forced him to work as an illegal debt-collector (it’s hardly Robin Hood is it?).

This time Sir Ben is filmed trying to recruit a manservant (or “gentleman’s gentleman” as he puts it). Finding staff is a touchy subject for Sir Ben, seeing as his previous missus ran off with the help (“that handyman was a bit too handy, if you know what I mean”, cackles one of Sir Ben’s female staff). Sir Ben refuses to employ “people from countries beginning with ‘I’... or Scorpios” and his valiantly eccentric efforts miraculously result in a charming bloke agreeing to toady to him (“great shot, Sir Ben!”) during all his jolly hockeysticks jaunts.

Francis Fulford of Life is Toff (BBC Three, Tuesdays, 10pm) also swings by to offer his wisdom. Well, I suppose they do have a lot of time on their hands...

Thank god then that as an antidote to all things posh we now at last have the pleasure of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! back on ITV1. You have barely been able to tune into the cringeworthy Good Morning Britain for the past month without some horrific PR hype segments promoting Ant and Dec’s jungle fun. Finally it squirted on to screens on Sunday with the stand-out star Gemma Collins, of The Only Way is Essex (Towie) fame.

Lovely Gemma didn’t wait long before having the first of many meltdowns, begging to be released from the helicopter on her way to camp in the wilderness and forced to march there on foot, armed with only a sequinned dress and terror.

In the darkness she makes her grand entrance, freaking out that some creature has brushed up against her leg. “It could be a lion, a kimono dragon... ANYTHING!” she bellows, displaying a frankly astonishing knowledge of Aussie wildlife.

Still, now she’s bolted, she could win a deal with the show’s sponsor: the ever-classy Iceland, which wedged ads for the less than appealing sounding Exotic Meat Feast in between footage of Gemma going face to face with critters.

If that combo doesn’t turn you vegetarian, nothing will.

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