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I'm A Celebrity's Ant and Dec 'blame' viewers and tell them to take action after trial complaints

Ant and Dec have 'blamed' on viewers and called on them to change things amidst complaints that the show was becoming 'boring'' after Matt Hancock was voted to do yet another Bushtucker Trial.

Since he went into the jungle as a late arrival on Wednesday night, the former Health Secretary, who resigned from his Government role after being caught on camera cheating on his wife with a Downing Street employee, has been chosen by the public to face every I'm A Celebrity trial. He's tackled Tentacles of Terror, La Cucaracha Café eating trial with Boy George, the Who Wants to Look Silly on Air challenge alongside Owen Warner and House of Horrors, the latter seeing him getting lunged at by a snake.

And then at the end of Sunday's show, Ant and Dec went into camp to share the news that Matt had been voted to do the next trial, which will se him get up close and personal with even more snakes. As they do after every episode of I'm A Celebrity, the Geordie hosts went on Instagram after credits rolled to conduct a live chat with fans. And it was during the Q&A, that the lads took on a suggestion that a rule be put in place that once someone does a trial they should be automatically unable to do the next one.

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One unhappy viewer wrote: "Should be a rule that you can’t be voted for a trial if you did the previous one. Stop all this voting for the same person, this is going to get boring."

Issuing a direct response, Ant said: "If you want other people to do the trial then you've got to vote for them. If you want to see other people in the show, you've got to vote for those other people.

"Because as we know, the trials take up a third of the show, it's a big part of the show."

After his successive run of trials so far, Hancock is now being tipped to break the record for the most total stars won in I'm A Celebrity trials, which currently stands at 97.

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