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GMB's Kate Garraway exposes 'unexpected' I'm A Celebrity rule as she speculates on Matt Hancock

Kate Garraway has 'exposed' what she described as an 'unexpected' I'm A Celebrity rule she remembers from her time on the show, as she speculated on how Matt Hancock would be feeling as he prepares for the jungle.

The country is still in shock at the news that disgraced former Health Secretary Hancock had been signed up to take part in I'm A Celebrity, as people still remember his Downing Street affair that cost him his job, at a time when the country was subject to stringent Covid restrictions.

ITV bosses are said to be celebrating securing a sensational booking," with Hancock set to surprise the rest of this year's I 'm A Celebrity line-up, including Boy George, Jill Scott and Mike Tindall, by going in as a surprise late arrival. HIs involvement in the show has sparked a real difference of opinion online and in the media. Speaking out against the move on Wednesday's Loose Women, an angry Denise Welch said she wanted a showdown with Hancock, claiming she'd go in the jungle 'for nowt' for the opportunity to confront him.

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Hancock is now holed up in a hotel in Australia, having landed Down Under late on Tuesday evening and GMB presenter Kate, who was an I'm A Celebrity campmate at the end of 2019, speculated he'd be taken aback by one of the show's strictest rules, that comes into force before contestants are even in the jungle - having their mobile phones taken off them.

Kate was questioned by co-host Ben Shephard on how much Hancock and the rest of the line-up will be "aware of what's going on back home," to which she told him: "Well, they do take your phone off you, pretty much as soon as you land. I didn't realise that and I had a bit of a panic. So I said 'you've got to give me five minutes just to call people!'

"They take it off you and that's it. You haven't got any access to the internet; you haven't got anyway of knowing what's happening.

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