Scarlette Douglas said despite appearing friendly with former health secretary Matt Hancock in the Australian jungle it didn’t mean they’ll be "best mates" after the I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! series has finished. The TV presenter, 35, became the second celebrity contestant to be eliminated from the ITV reality show on Sunday.
Speaking about her relationship with the West Suffolk MP, Douglas said on Good Morning Britain: “He came in and everybody was shocked to see him in there and for me I had to pull him aside and just let him know how I was feeling about him being in the jungle. When we are in there, we are in an enclosed space, it’s a very strange environment so nobody wants it to be toxic.
"We just have to get on, be friends, be a family in camp otherwise it’s not going to work. In the jungle we will get on, but it doesn’t mean that on the outside we’ll be best mates at all but in here we’ll just work together as a team and that’s all we can do. That’s the most important thing."
When co-host Richard Madeley asked the A Place In The Sun presenter if she liked the politician, she replied: “I like his get up and go.” She continued: “I like the fact that he has drive, I like that he is determined.
"I like that he won’t give up anything and those attributes I like in general. So do I like Matt Hancock specifically, I don’t think I had enough time to really get to know him because when he came in, he was trying to win us all over.
"He was doing his best to make sure he was involved in everything but for me, it was just that I want to make sure as a camp we all get on.”
After two weeks in the jungle, Hancock discussed his dyslexia diagnosis for the first time during Sunday’s show. He had previously vowed to use the “incredible platform” to raise awareness of the learning difficulty ahead of his appearance.
Chatting to comedians Babatunde Aleshe and Seann Walsh in the episode, Hancock was asked what he had struggled with during life, to which he replied: “I can’t dance, I can’t sing and I can’t read very well, very quickly.”
Walsh asked: “Are you talking about reading specifically?”
The former health secretary replied: “Yeah. And then the moment I was identified as dyslexic at university it was ‘Ahh so actually I am okay with language, it’s just my brain works differently and I can work on that’.”
Dyslexia is a common learning difficulty that causes problems with reading, writing and spelling, according to the NHS website. A spokesperson for Hancock previously said he hoped going on the show would raise the profile of his dyslexia campaign.
