The I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! campmates have been letting their thoughts be known after Matt Hancock arrived in camp with one contestant saying he could have quit the show when he entered.
The shock on his arrival was palpable, but after things settled down the celebrities began to lay into one of the newest arrivals.
Boy George even said his mum could have died from Covid and if that was the case, he would have walked after seeing Hancock arrive.
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Charlene was the first to have a proper chat with the former health secretary in the lookout – during which he admitted he was concerned about how he would be received by his fellow campmates.
“Everybody’s really nice,” he said.
“Nobody’s trying to be spikey are they?” ITV News anchor Charlene asked: “Were you nervous about that?”
The MP replied: “Not really… but it was on the worry list.”
Charlene quickly asked: “So why did you do it?” to which Mr. Hancock explained: “Because there’s – honest truth is – because there’s so few ways in which politicians can show that we’re human beings, so I just thought it would be good to do that. I’ve got a sense of adventure.”
Charlene then asked: “So you kind of want people to see you for you?” To which the former health secretary admitted: “I hope so.”
The Loose Women star later shared her thoughts in the Bush Telegraph and said: “Matt has a tough hill to climb, but he's put himself on that hill and for me as a journalist, I have to ask him why.“
Mr Hancock later said his goal was to show the public another side to him as he told Charlene: “If I can use this to sort of peel myself back a bit and just be me, it’s better.”
Howeve, Charlene may not have had the response he was hoping for as she said: “But I can imagine it would not have gone down well at all at home? You have to expect that. Because Parliament is still sitting, we’re not in recess, you know…”
The MP replied said: “I genuinely think that because we’ve now got sort of stability that is…”
Charlene then stated: “We’ve had stability for all of five minutes Matt.”
Hancock then insisted: “Rishi’s great, he’ll be fine.”
Refusing to leave her question unanswered, the journalist responded: “But you can understand if people aren’t very happy at home about it?”
“I understand that,” the MP said. ”But I also.. of course I get that, right. But I also just think that sometimes you’ve got to do things differently.”
To which Charlene pointed out: “I’m not sure going on I’m A Celebrity is the way to do it but you’re doing you and it’s a decision you’ve made and honestly it will be fascinating just to see.”
Boy George admitted later in the show that he could have quit the show f his mum’s bout of Covid proved to be fatal.
The pop icon confided in Scarlette Douglas about his mum's battle with illness and said: “You know, beginning of the pandemic my mum was in hospital. I wasn’t allowed to see her. I thought she was going to die.
“I was tweeting Greenwich hospital going, ‘Please look after my mum.’ I used my name, I was like ‘Please look after my mum.’
“And they did, she was fine… I feel like, I don’t want to be sitting here like I’m having fun with him.
“It’s difficult for me because, you know, had something happened, if my mum had gone, I wouldn’t be here now. I would have gone when he walked in.”
Speaking in the Bush Telegraph, Boy George continued: “If I had lost my mum, I would go. And I feel a little bit selfish, you know, just kind of… everyone’s so nice to him and I was like Jesus, what we gonna do?
“I don’t want to spoil this experience for myself. I’m not good at hiding what I feel. Especially when it’s something so strong.”
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