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Matt Hancock gets I'm A Celebrity reprieve as he's not voted to do latest trial

There was a massive I'm A Celebrity shock on Monday night, when Matt Hancock was NOT visited to do the latest I'm A Celebrity trial and no-one was more surprised than the man himself.

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.

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In the early part of Monday's I'm A Celebrity, viewers saw Matt in trial action again, this time in Deserted Down Under, which saw him in a coffin surrounded by 30 snakes, just as viewers and co-stars like Sue Cleaver and Mike Tindall were becoming slightly fed up of him doing all the challenges.

Afte r Ant and Dec blamed viewers for complaints that I'm A Celeb was becoming 'The Matt Hancock Show,' the hosts revealed that three celebs would take part in the next trial - Angel of Agony. As many fans implored their fellow viewers to vote for other campmates, many resigned themselves to Matt being chosen once again.

However, there was big twist in the closing moments when Matt's was the first name to be mentioned by Ant and Dec when they walked into camp to deliver the results of the vote, only to tell them he hadn't been picked and instead it will be Babatunde, Boy George and Chris who will take on the three hander, which viewers will see on Tuesday night.

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