Piers Morgan has revealed that he confronted Matt Hancock when he landed back in England following his stint in the jungle. The journalist took to Twitter to tell his followers that he had an "awkward" encounter with the disgraced MP at Heathrow Airport.
The former Health Secretary finally returned home from I'm A Celebrity yesterday, ready to resume his work duties and meet with his constituents in West Suffolk, writes The Mirror. Piers, who has criticised Mr Hancock's decision to appear on the ITV show, told his followers about the exact conversation they had and how the 57-year-old told the MP that he would have given him "a kicking" had he been in camp with him.
Piers tweeted: "Just bumped into Matt Hancock at Heathrow. I told him I’d been giving him a good kicking the entire time he was in the jungle." Piers then added: "He said he knew. It was the purest personification of #Awks."
Mr Hancock placed third during I'm A Celebrity's live final on Sunday night, and now he returns home to his duties as a MP. The 44-year-old, who lost the Tory whip at the start of the month, was supposed to fly home earlier but he instead opted to leave his girlfriend Gina Coladangelo to fly homo solo while he enjoyed some extra time in Australia.
Gina, who met Mr Hancock on the jungle bridge on Sunday night, left Australia on Tuesday with some of his celebrity campmates, but the independent MP remained Down Under to cash in on his new found fame with a lucrative interview.
Now that he's back on home soil, Mr Hancock will need to clear up several issues regarding his political career, and confirm exactly how much of his I'm A Celebrity appearance fee he will donate to charity, following his team's refusal to confirm the amount to the Mirror on Sunday.
Prior to his jungle stint, many were furious that the former Conservative MP would be taking part in the show for various reasons. Among those, were the fact he is still a sitting MP (receiving £84,144 annually), his behaviour in government, his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and questions surrounding contracts issued to private companies during his time as Health Secretary.
Back in 2021, the West Suffolk MP was forced to quit as Health Secretary after breaking coronavirus lockdown rules by conducting an affair in his ministerial office with his then aide Gina.
Mr Hancock played a prominent role in the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and branded anyone ignoring social distancing rules and restrictions as "very selfish" prior to being caught having an extra-marital affair.
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