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Matt Hancock has been voted out of I’m a celebrity get me out of here, coming in at 3rd place, Hancock caused a widespread furore after announcing he intended to appear on the popular ITV show.

The former Health Secretary, who quit after breaking his own lockdown rules by having an affair with long-time aide Gina Coladangelo, lost the Tory whip and was branded a ‘total halfwit’ over the decision to enter the Australian jungle.

Matt Hancock

Earlier this month, Dr Cathy Gardner – a bereaved daughter who won a high court ruling that Hancock’s policy on care home discharges at the start of the Covid pandemic was unlawful – said the producers’ decision to cast him and pay him a substantial fee was “two fingers to those of us who are bereaved because they just don’t seem to care about how significant he was”.

But reports claim that the MP’s TikTok account, run by his PR team, has played a key role in his shock appearance in the final three.

matt hancock, i am a celebrity

He acknowledged to campmates in the Australian jungle there was “no excuse” for the actions that led to his resignation in June 2021 after being photographed kissing a colleague, Gina Coladangelo, in his ministerial office during the pandemic but insisted he “fell in love”.

Hancock, who lost the Tory whip after it was announced he would be appearing on the ITV programme, is still being paid as an independent MP and is rumoured to have been paid £400,000 to appear on the programme.

 

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