Celebrity Treasure Island's Team Kahu / Yellow Team. Photo / TVNZ
Celebrity Treasure Island is back – but can it possibly live up to the 2001 original? I have my doubts.
I doubt, for example, that any of 2019's cohort will utter a line as good as the late, great celebrity builder Cocksy, when he turned to his teammates in the
first episode and asked: "Do you guys want to watch me kill a chicken?"
I don't know about you but if I had to trust any New Zealand celebrity from history to efficiently and humanely kill a chicken, Cocksy would be near the top of the list. But his teammates said, "No, let's take the box that doesn't have the chicken in it."
By the time the other team deciphered their text message clue and got to the chicken, the bird was already on its way out. Hindsight suggests you probably shouldn't lock a live chicken in a wooden box without any food, water or ventilation.
In the end, it was Danny Morrison who put the chicken out of its misery, then turned to the camera and said, in a manner reminiscent of Jack Nicholson in The Shining: "You'll be grateful later girls, yummy yummy." Again, hindsight suggests Morrison probably shouldn't have been allowed on television - but these were simpler times.