Just 26% of people in Britain forgive campmate Matt Hancock for breaking covid guidelines.
The MP was forced to resign as health secretary after footage surfaced of him embracing his aide Gina Coladangelo at a time when this would breach his own rules on physical contact.
In a new poll the majority (53.5%) said they hadn't forgiven him and 21.5% were undecided.
Shamed Hancock, 44, is also only winning over a minority of viewers with his jungle antics on ITV, the new data suggests.
A One Poll survey of over 1500 people showed that two-thirds of people still had the same opinion of the disgraced MP as before he went into camp.
A total of 33% said their opinion had changed about the former Health Secretary. And of those 88% admitted they liked him more than before.
Research Director at OnePoll Harry Gove, who carried out the survey said: "It appears from the results that Matt Hancock is managing to slowly sway some viewers and is apparently becoming more likeable.
"And while the MP still has some campmates to win over, he has a bigger job on his hands in winning over the show's viewers and a long long way to go in securing the nation's forgiveness."
The results show some support for Hancock and back up the bookmakers' odds suggesting Hancock is no longer likely to be the first contestant evicted from camp.
He is now as short as 7/1 to be king of the jungle and only fourth favourite to leave first behind Scarlette Douglas, Charlene White and Sue Cleaver. Voters have stopped forcing him to do daily trials and also made him camp leader.
There was also chaos outside camp yesterday as a banner trying to force Hancock out of the shown was flown overhead.
The controversial signing of Hancock sparked a petition against the MP as Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice launched a campaign titled He's no celebrity - stop Matt Hancock appearing on I'm A Celebrity.
The petition, which currently has nearly 45,000 signatures, gathered enough traction that the website, 38 degrees, were able to fly an anti-Matt banner over camp.
The 35 metre banner read 'Covid Bereaved Say Get Out of Here!' and was flown at the ITV show's base camp near Murwillumbah in New South Wales.
A spokesperson from the petition site explained that the plane was hired and sent out to "make sure Matt gets the message".
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Lobby Akinnola from Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, 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 the man we wrote to over a year ago asking him to pass over his private gmail emails relating to the handling of the pandemic to the new health secretary in readiness for the Covid Inquiry. He’s the man who didn’t even respond to us.
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, just like the “protective ring” he dared to suggest he had placed around care homes.”
Matthew McGregor, CEO of 38 Degrees said:
“No one has forgotten how Matt Hancock conducted himself during the Covid-19 pandemic: not the general public, not his campmates, and certainly not those who lost loved ones. Our message emblazoned across the skies makes crystal clear to Matt Hancock: you should be representing the people of West Suffolk and giving Covid Bereaved Families the answers they deserve, rather than playing games for dingo dollars, plastic stars and a £400,000 paycheck.”
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