Campaign groups have flown a plane protesting Matt Hancock’s appearance on I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! over the show’s camp.
On Tuesday (15 November) between 11am and 1pm Australian time, a plane was flown over the camp where the contestants are based in the jungle.
Attached to the vehicle was a bearing a 35-metre-long banner, which reads: “COVID BEREAVED SAY GET OUT OF HERE!”
The protest came from campaign groups 38 Degrees and Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice after more than 44,000 people signed a petition calling for ITV to reverse their decision to make Hancock a campmate.
The former health secretary, who resigned as health secretary last year after violating his own Covid regulations by having an affair with aide Gina Coladangelo, was stripped of the Tory whip for appearing on the show.
Hancock entered the jungle as a “bombshell” contestant alongside Seann Walsh four episodes into the series.
Lobby Akinnola, who lost his father to Covid-19 said: “Matt Hancock isn’t a ‘celebrity’, he’s the former health secretary who oversaw the UK having one of the highest death tolls in the world from Covid-19 whilst breaking his own lockdown rules.
“He’s claimed the inquiry will set the record straight, but it can only get to the truth if it has the evidence it needs. He should be at home sending in those emails rather than being rewarded with £400,000 for not doing his job. His transparent attempt to sell more books and cleanse his public profile has failed.”
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