Matt Hancock is set to sign up for this year's 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!'.
Matt Hancock is set to sign up for this year's I'm A Celebrity
The former Health Secretary is expected to be the 12th celebrity in this year's series of the ITV show, during which 10 celebrities will enter the jungle on Sunday (06.11.22), and it is then thought Matt and comedian Seann Walsh will head into camp at a later date.
A TV insider told The Sun newspaper: "Matt is a sensational signing for the show as producers love a star with a story to tell - and they always hope they'll spill the beans round the campfire.
"He's the latest in a long line of figures from the political sphere, including MP Nadine Dorries, Stanley Johnson and MP Lembit Opik.
"There's been a question mark over who the twelfth campmate would be, partly because negotiations over Matt going in were so top secret. It seems Matt was a last-minute signing."
The 44-year-old Conservative politician previously came under fire after he was caught kissing his aide Gina Coladangelo amid the COVID-19 pandemic, when social distancing guidance was in place.
Matt was recently said to have been approached to appear on the next series of ‘Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins’.
An insider told the publication: “Matt impressed 'Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins' producers when he spoke to them and they want him to take part.
“He would be the biggest name to have signed up for the next series and it would be a real coup for the show.
“Matt knows there is a mixed perception of him in the public eye and he thinks going on the show would reveal a different side to himself.
“It is not unusual for MPs to take part in these kinds of shows and Matt thinks he could go far on SAS, despite it being the hardest of all the reality series on television.”
But a spokesperson for the parliamentary representative for West Suffolk claimed in September that he hadn’t “signed up for anything”, when asked if he was going to appear in the star-studded military endurance Channel 4 show.
They told the publication: "Matt gets a huge number of offers and is asked to appear on TV shows all the time but he has not signed up to anything."
Should Matt enter the jungle, he will rub shoulders with pop icon Boy George, 'Coronation Street' star Sue Cleaver, 'Hollyoaks' actor Owen Warner, former England rugby player Mike Tindall, radio presenter Chris Moyles, England Lioness Jill Scott, comedian Babatunde Aleshe, former 'Love Island' star Olivia Attwood, and TV presenters Charlene White and Scarlette Douglas.
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