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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Stuart Heritage

‘Unsettlingly Victorian’ – Matt Hancock arrives on I’m a Celebrity for a public flogging

A bit of human emotion wouldn’t have gone amiss … Matt Hancock on I’m a Celebrity.
A bit of human emotion wouldn’t have gone amiss … Matt Hancock on I’m a Celebrity. Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

Back in 2011, the first episode of Black Mirror revolved around the prime minister being forced to have sex with a pig on television. For weeks the prospect of such a spectacle entranced and enthralled the nation but, when the moment itself came, viewers found themselves depressed and appalled by the act. Anyway, Matt Hancock is on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! now.

After days of anticipation, Hancock has finally arrived in the camp, a little later than everyone else, although his entrance was as grim as you would expect. To arrive at camp, he was forced to crawl on his belly through a narrow, pitch-black tunnel, where he was festooned with scorpions, maggots and a substance he could only describe as “slurry”.

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