The executive producer of ITV hit show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! has said enlisting Matt Hancock to appear on the series was "not a question of trying to divide camp". There has been criticism after it emerged the former Health Secretary would join the programme in the Austrlian jungle.
Mr Hancock, 44, 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. His soon-to-be jungle campmate, property expert Scarlette Douglas, tweeted on the day he resigned: "Good, get out of here."
Meanwhile, Loose Women star Charlene White, who will also appear in the jungle this year, has previously been critical of the Covid strategy while Mr Hancock was Health Secretary. Her great aunt died with Covid.
