Matt Hancock failed to impress his I’m A Celebrity campmates after a poor performance in his first Bushtucker Trial.
During Wednesday night's episode of the hit ITV show, the former health secretary took part in the Beastly Burrows challenge alongside fellow late-arrival comedian Seann Walsh. The pair were very much thrown into the deep end having to complete a Bushtucker Trial before they could go into camp.
However, after scoring just six out of 11 stars, the 44-year-old MP felt like his fellow contestants were let down by his and Seann's efforts. Journalist Charlene White wasted no time quizzing the new arrivals on what they were bringing to the camp, asking Hancock : "Have you won us stars?" To which he replied: "We got six stars."
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Cleaver, 59, then added: "How many stars were there to get?" After Hancock confirmed there were 11 stars up for grabs in total, the Coronation Street actress appeared disappointed, saying: "Eleven… yeah…"
Comedian Babatunde Aleshe, who completed a solo task on the previous episode and gained all nine stars on offer to him, added: "I got a full house so… you guys got a lot to live up to."
Later, speaking in the Bush Telegraph, Hancock said: "They weren’t desperately impressed with six stars were they?" To which Walsh laughed, replying: "They were not!"
During the trial, while trying to retrieve a star, Matt Hancock gave up in his search declaring: "I'm sorry, I tried my best," which caused hosts Ant and Dec to burst into laughter and mouth that he hadn't.
As the pair arrived in the main camp, radio DJ Chris Moyles paid a visit to the Bush Telegraph and said: "Oh my god, two new people have arrived. One of them is Seann Walsh and the other one… I’ve got to go back and double-check!" Also speaking in the Bush Telegraph, soap star Sue Cleaver added: "I don’t know what to say."
Elsewhere in Wednesday’s episode, Hancock and Walsh discovered they would be undercover moles in the main camp and were given a series of secret missions to undertake to earn the campmates their luxury items.
Called into Mole HQ – a separate secret camp where Hancock and Walsh started their jungle experience – the pair were told they must steal someone’s hat and gilet and bring them back to Mole HQ, call Moyles ‘Greg’ on three separate occasions, and convince the camp that one of them is a keen bird-watcher by re-creating the calls of fictional Australian birds.
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! continues on ITV.
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