I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! winner Georgia Toffolo has weighed in on the controversy surrounding Matt Hancock ’s decision to join the 2022 line-up of the show.
The former Health Secretary was confirmed to have signed up for the ITV reality show when he touched down in Australia earlier this week.
Mr Hancock – who was photographed in Brisbane ahead of the show's launch on Sunday – has faced criticism over the decision to enter the jungle.
Toff, who was crowned Queen of the Jungle in the final of the show in 2017, appeared on Friday’s instalment of This Morning alongside fellow show alums Peter Andre and Jake Quickenden.
Towards the end of the interview, host Dermot O’Leary turned to the Made in Chelsea star to ask for her thoughts on Mr Hancock’s decision.
The 28-year-old admitted she is ‘normally pretty soft on the Tories’ before she added: “But I think this is disgraceful.”
She continued: “I think someone like Penny Mourdant going and doing Splash! all those years ago in 2014 – she donated all her fee to the local lido and it saved the lido. Brilliant.
“What Matt is doing is I think really showing to the country that the man who was meant to be in control of our health going through this pandemic – not only did he cheat on his wife and get caught, he’s now leaving his constituents to go to Australia to earn loads of money in the show.
“And flaunting it in front of the people who lost so many loved ones and went through the most horrific pain. I’ve never been more embarrassed about the Conservative Party.”
The West Suffolk MP defended his decision to appear on the ITV reality show in Australia, saying it is a ‘powerful tool’ to reach young people after he was suspended as a Conservative MP.
The MP's claim that he would chat to constituents while on I'm A Celebrity has since been labelled ‘delusional’ by an insider.
I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! bosses have confirmed the contestant will only be allowed contact with the outside world if there is an emergency.
The former Health Secretary insisted in an article yesterday that he had agreed with the ITV show's producers that he can be contacted at any point for ‘urgent constituency matters’.
But the I'm A Celeb camp in Australia is isolated from the real world and Hancock will even have his phone taken away.
An ITV spokesman added: "Celebs cannot speak to the outside world at all unless there are exceptional circumstances ie. an emergency."
