British politician Matt Hancock controversially entered I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! on Wednesday night, causing quite a stir.
Some of his jungle campmates laid into him, with several admitting they could have quit the show over his arrival.
Charlene White questioned the wisdom of him coming in when the UK Government has been stable "for five minutes" and Chris Moyles said he had "taken a few weeks off his job".
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Boy George then said his mum could have died from Covid and he would have walked if that happened.
After he had come into camp with Seann Walsh, Owen Warner said to Babatúndé Aléshé: “Do you have any strong views on the geezer?” Babatúndé said: “It’s hard to kind of like push your views aside, it really is, because of the many people whose lives have been affected. But, at the same time, we’ve got to be welcoming and we’ve got to treat people as humans obviously.”
Meanwhile, more camp mates struggled to come to terms with the disgraced MP entrance into the jungle as Sue Cleaver said to Boy George and Mike Tindall of Mr Hancock: “He sticks out like a sore thumb.”
What did Matt Hancock do that is making his jungle co-stars angry?
Matt Hancock is a British politician and became a member of the Conservative Party in 1999. However, his decision to enter I’m A Celebrity has angered many people, and he has since been suspended as a Conservative MP. This means he’ll now have to sit as an independent in the House of Commons.
The 44-year-old served as Health Secretary during the Covid and played a prominent role in the British government’s response.
However a major scandal in June 2021 saw him resign as Health Secretary. It was revealed that he had breached the then Covid social distancing restrictions by kissing and embracing an aide, with whom he was having an extramarital affair.
CCTV images of him kissing and embracing Gina Coladangelo, an adviser in the Department of Health and Social Care, were published by The Sun.
This meant that he had broken his own social distancing rules, which he admitted to and apologised for.
The dad-of-three resigned on the evening of June 26, stating "those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them", and he had not because of his "breaking the guidance"
News of the scandal was met with a mixture of public anger and ridicule, which is reflected his fellow I’m A Celebrity contestants attitude to his arrival in Australia.
Hancock, who is dyslexic, has said his reason for entering the jungle is to raise awareness about the learning difficulty that affects reading and writing.
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