“I messed up and I fessed up. I resigned.”
That’s what Matt Hancock told his celebrity campmates when inevitable questions around his career-shattering affair emerged just hours into his I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here stint.
Matt’s arrival created a strange atmosphere in the camp as his fellow contestants attempted to welcome a man who they all, aside from a couple, held strong views about already. The ITV reality show is usually a bit of light entertainment, or escapism on the dark November nights. Some contestants may rub people up the wrong way but truly controversial characters are rare, and debates around whether a contestant should even be in the jungle are more likely to focus on whether they’re famous enough, not whether they’re skiving off work.
