Queen of the Jungle Jill Scott has revealed that she is yet to hear from her controversial I'm A Celebrity campmate Matt Hancock since landing back home.
Jill was welcomed onto the Loose Women panel on Tuesday to chat about her jungle experience with hosts Janet Street-Porter, Coleen Nolan, Frankie Bridge and fellow I'm A Celeb campmate Charlene White. And the presenters were quick to quiz the Sunderland star on the former Health Secretary after his stint on the ITV show sparked a huge backlash.
Asked if she had been in touch with the MP, Jill replied: "I actually haven't since the show. But I think everybody - my knowledge of politics isn't actually that good, so once we got into the jungle, everyone puts the jungle outfits on, it was just like we were one team.
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"He was going and getting us stars, he was feeding us, so I was happy," Jill went on. "But yeah, I haven't had a message off him yet, that's the truth."
Janet joked: "Maybe he'll be sending you a copy of his book," referencing the former Health Secretary's explosive new memoir The Pandemic Diaries.
Coleen led the audience to burst into applause when she cheekily added: "Or maybe it's because you're a winner and he's a loser," causing her co-star Charlene to gasp in shock. And Jill's former jungle co-star remained tight-lipped on her thoughts regarding the Matt Hancock saga, after steering clear of mentioning the politician altogether when she returned to the Loose Women panel last week.
Janet Street-Porter revealed that Charlene had not even opened up about the situation to her co-stars behind the scenes as she brought up the ongoing rumours of Hancock's inclusion in the I'm A Celeb WhatsApp group. Former campmate Scarlette Douglas confirmed earlier this week that he had indeed been added to the group after an initial "snub" from his jungle co-stars.
Addressing the latest reports, Janet said to Jill: "In the papers today, it says that he's left the WhatsApp group. I can't prize it out of Charlene." As Jill didn't confirm or deny the WhatsApp rumours, Charlene also remained silent on the subject and shook her head when Janet mentioned the group.
Elsewhere in the show, Charlene revealed that one of her favourite memories with Jill in the jungle ended up being cut from the final episode, meaning that viewers missed out on a "beautiful moment". She explained that retired Lioness Jill created a jungle football team, giving each campmate a position on the field.
"What was amazing was that Jill made football shirts out of origami with the bags that our rice and beans came in," Charlene said. "We all had our own little shirts with our names on them that you made using charcoal from the fire with our numbers on them and it was that attention to detail that gave us a great camp experience which was amazing."
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