Matt Hancock found himself struggling with an I'm A Celebrity challenge on tonight's episode due to his dyslexia.
The West Suffolk MP took on the latest Deals on Wheels challenge with Mike Tindall, which involved needing to solve an anagram against the clock to earn dingo dollars and a treat for their fellow campmates. But the 44-year-old admitted to finding the task particularly difficult.
"I'm terrible at anagrams - I'm dyslexic, so all the letters are already in an anagram. So it's on you," he told rugby star Mike. "Being dyslexic, I find anagrams really hard. All I could see was the word tiny."
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While the pair did manage to work out that the anagram spelled out the word ninety-nine, linking to the number of red balloons they had to pop in the challenge to earn letters, their efforts ended up being in vain. The other campmates missed out on the prize of chocolate chip cookies as they failed to work out the combined total of Adele's albums.
The former Health Secretary finally opened up about his dyslexia in the jungle earlier this week, after naming raising awareness of the learning difficulty as one of the main reasons for going on the ITV show in the first place. Writing in his column prior to going into camp, Hancock said: "As a backbench MP, I have the freedom and time to champion causes I believe in and care about - including dyslexia.
"I want to raise the profile of my dyslexia campaign to help every dyslexic child unleash their potential — even if it means taking an unusual route to get there... via the Australian jungle!" And the subject finally came up in Sunday's episode, after many viewers had questioned why the MP was still yet to raise the issue more than a week into his time in camp.
Speaking to co-stars Seann and Babatunde, he said: "I desperately wanted to learn. "One side - on maths - I could, and on English I couldn’t."
He added: "And then the moment I was identified as dyslexic at university, suddenly instead of feeling I was just rubbish at something and useless, it was - ah, so actually I am ok with language, it’s just my brain works differently and I can work on that."
Regulator Ofcom confirmed that it has now received more than 3,200 complaints from I'm A Celeb viewers over this year's series, with the "majority" of them concerning Matt Hancock's place in the jungle. He is one of seven stars left in camp, with the winner set to be crowned this Sunday.
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