During the production of SAS: Who Dares Wins, Matt Hancock was not let off the hook.
Following his contentious time on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! The disgraced MP, 44, had his mental and physical fitness evaluated again in 2022 for the tough military endurance course.
Hancock should be used to harsh examination, but ahead of the Channel 4 show, which will premiere later this year, chief instructor Billy Billingham has promised that the former Health Secretary will be “totally decimated.”
‘We treat everybody the same and we really went at him,’ said Billingham.
‘You might think that he’d be a c**t but for most of the time he wasn’t. But if anyone shows any attitude, they get it and when he tried it, he got f***** smashed.
‘In the interrogation bit, he gets destroyed, absolutely destroyed,’ he stressed to The Sun.
‘At the time I thought, “Oh, hang on, maybe this is a bit much?” But no, he deserved it.
‘The idea is every single contestant will either leave on day one or will leave as a better version of themselves and with Matt Hancock, he’s still got a long way to go.’
At the next general election, Hancock will resign as MP for West Suffolk.
He said that he was using his appearance on I’m A Celebrity to seek ‘forgiveness’ from the public for his management of the epidemic and for breaching the exact regulations he established by having an affair with Gina Coladangelo when social distancing was still in effect.
In the jungle, he told comedian Babatunde Aleshe: ‘It was really tough. I messed up and I fessed up. I resigned and it’s no excuse but I fell in love, right?
‘That also had a lot of other consequences, obviously.’
Despite receiving widespread criticism for his participation on I’m A Celebrity, he finally finished third.
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins returns to Channel 4 later this year.
