It was on the third night that the producers of I’m a Celebrity finally got their money shot. An emotional Matt Hancock, having been lightly grilled by fellow contestants over everything from his extramarital affair to his failure to keep Covid out of care homes, confessed that “what I’m really looking for is a bit of forgiveness”.
Cue lots of hugging, and former Coronation Street actor Sue Cleaver – the camp’s unofficial matriarch – announcing that the elephant in the room “has departed”. The former health secretary had got what he surely wanted, and so presumably had the ratings-chasers at ITV. The nation, however, not so much.
