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Lydia Veljanovski

Crissy Rock says I'm A Celeb's Matt Hancock used 'dyslexia' as an excuse to gain pity

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock is still living in the Australian jungle, avoiding his constituents as he giggles through bushtucker trials and rubs shoulders with celebs.

When the MP, 44, first announced he was going on the hit ITV show there was uproar, but he insisted he was there to raise the profile of dyslexia - a learning difficulty which affects reading and spelling - which he has been diagnosed with.

However, for comedian and actress Crissy Rock, 64, this excuse does not cut it.

She came sixth on I’m A Celebrity in 2011, and only learned to read in her late 20s.

Speaking of her former illiteracy, the actress who starred in hit show Benidorm, explains: “The older you get, the harder it is. But even though now I’m not thick, I just didn’t grasp it.”

Crissy Rock doesn't think Matt Hancock's motive appearance on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! is anything to do with dyslexia (Julian Hamilton/Daily Mirror)

Crissy does not think Matt’s motive appearance on the show is anything to do with dyslexia, or that it should whitewash his actions during the pandemic including breaking restrictions.

“How can you believe a word he says anymore?” she exclaims. “We had a close friend that went into hospital and it was so intense they put her in an induced coma.

"Then all of a sudden she died. Her daughters couldn’t go into the hospital, they were in the car park, and they were going ‘I’m sorry your mum’s just passed’.”

Crissy has blasted Matt's involvement in the show (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

“When you think about all those poor people that died with nobody around them, and you couldn’t visit them.

"It seems it was one rule for them and one rule for everybody else,” says the actress.

As for whether Crissy would engage with Matt if they were in the jungle together, she has a firm view.

Crissy says she wouldn't talk to Matt if she was in the jungle with him (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

“I’d say look nothing personal against you but my policy is you’ve allowed this to happen and we have to be there together,” she says.

“So I’ll sit on this side of the log and you can sit on that side. I don’t want to engage in conversation.”

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