Matt Hancock Finishes Third In I’m A Celeb… – Deadline

England European Cup-winning footballer Jill Scott gained ITV‘s I’m a Celeb… Get Me Out of Right here! final night time however the nation’s eyes had been skilled on only one contestant, MP Matt Hancock, who got here third in a remaining watched by a peak of 11.3M viewers.

Scores knowledge that has simply are available exhibits the finale was one of the watched UK TV broadcasts of this 12 months to date, rising by greater than 3M on final 12 months’s remaining, which was shot in Wales not Australia. A mean 10.4M watched the present throughout its 9 p.m.-10.30 p.m. GMT (1 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. PST) runtime, with a peak of 11.3M.

Former Well being Secretary Hancock’s controversial choice to partake within the present, which noticed him instantly lose the Conservative Celebration whip, divided dwelling rooms across the nation, with some believing they had been seeing a ‘private’ aspect to a person many blame for numerous Covid-19 mishaps and lockdown rulebreaking, and others livid with the platform he was being given and the MP’s disregard for his constituents.

That mentioned, he virtually gained the present, and used his exit interview with hosts Ant and Dec to say he wished politicians “to come back throughout as extra human.”

“That is most likely essentially the most excessive manner of exhibiting who you’re,” he added.

In a remaining episode that included a snorkelling problem with frogs and eels, Hancock was revealed to have taken half in essentially the most Bushtucker Trials via a collection that featured confrontations with the likes of singer Boy George and DJ Chris Moyles.

Hancock was pipped to the submit by Scott and Hollyoaks actor Owen Warner.

He returns to the UK with query marks over his future as a politician after leaving his constituents for 3 weeks to participate in one of many nation’s most-watched leisure exhibits.

Hancock has every week to persuade the Conservative Celebration to revive the whip in any other case he should run on the subsequent election as an impartial and the occasion will select a brand new candidate. Former Tradition Secretary Nadine Dorries equally misplaced the whip for being on I’m a Celeb in 2017 and it took her a number of months to have the whip returned.

Rumors are abuzz that Hancock will stand down anyway as a politician and pursue a profession in TV, in the same vein to former politicians resembling Ed Balls and Michael Portillo.