The eye-watering amount Matt Hancock was paid for his appearance on ITV's hit show I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! has been revealed.
The West Suffolk MP appeared on screen for 720 hours alongside the likes of Mike Tindall, Owen Warner and Queen of the Jungle, footballer Jill Scott.
The Mirror reports that documents published by the Houses of Commons state that Hancock received £320,000 from Lifted Entertainment, ITV, with the fee being registered on January 11, 2023. This meant he raked in £10,666 a day.
At the time of appearing on the show, Hancock explained that a sum of his fee would be donated to several charities although a spokesperson was unable to confirm if all of the amounts would be donated.
The spokesperson said he "will be making a donation to St Nicholas Hospice in Suffolk and causes supporting dyslexia - including the British Dyslexia Association, off the back of his appearance," but refused to comment when asked as to what would happen to the rest of the money.
Despite initial backlash after entering the hit ITV programme, Hancock managed to sail through to the final and came third on the show after completing several of the Bushtucker Trials, which he had been voted to tackle by the public.
The former Health Secretary announced he would not stand for the Conservative Party in the next General Election – despite his team insisting that he had no intentions of turning his back on politics.
Read more of today's top stories here
READ NEXT:
- Woman died after developing hypothermia - she told her GP she 'couldn't afford heating'
- First glimpse inside Manchester Airport's planned new T2 with 27 shops, bars and restaurants
- A 14-year-old girl has been stabbed at Parrs Wood High School - a teenage boy has been arrested
- Woman fuming after partner, 48, refused entry from Manchester city centre bar for being 'too old'
- The North calls for levelling up to be ‘hard-wired' into UK law ahead of major Manchester conference
