Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has reportedly said that eating testicles in the jungle is the only job worse than his.
His comments came as viewers worldwide watched former Health Secretary Matt Hancock chow down on a camel's penis, sheep's vagina and cow's anus during a brutal Bushtucker Trial on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!
Matt, who had the Conservative Party whip removed after he announced that he would be joining the ITV staple this autumn, also scranned fish eye and had to drink an entries glass worth of blended meal worms topped with a witchetty grub garnish.
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The PA News Agency reports that the MP said eating the tip of a camel’s penis was 'soft and crunchy', while describing the thought of eating a sheep’s vagina as 'disgusting'. After being served a cow’s anus, Mr Hancock added: “The texture’s terrible and all the time you’re thinking about what you’re eating. I don’t recommend it as a main course.”
In an interview with The Sunday Times, Mr Hunt, said: “I think eating testicles in the jungle is literally the only job in the world that’s worse than mine.”
Meanwhile, Stanley Johnson, father of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and a former contestant on the show, told the BBC Mr Hancock is on 'a kind of journey of redemption'. Mr Johnson said: “I think that there is a case here that he is working something out.”
He said that it is 'fantastically good television', adding that Mr Hancock is raising the issue of dyslexia. On Friday night’s episode, Mr Hancock said: “Do you know what it is actually, what I’m really looking for is a bit of forgiveness, that’s what I’m really looking for.”
Mr Hancock was forced to quit as health secretary in June 2021 after breaking coronavirus social distancing rules by having an affair in his ministerial office with aide Gina Coladangelo. After news broke that he had signed up for the reality show, the MP for West Suffolk had the Tory whip suspended and has come under fire from across the political divide.
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