I’m A Celeb viewers ‘disgusted’ and threaten to switch off over ‘bullying’ row
I'M A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! fans are threatening to abandon the show amid claims Matt Hancock is being "bullied".
Some viewers fear the former Health Secretary is being deliberately picked on by some of his campmates in the Australian jungle.
The latest wave of complaints come after some people demanded that show bosses step in as they felt 'uncomfortable' watching Matt interact with the celebs.
In the latest instalment of the reality show, England Lioness Jill Scott was seen going for a run around camp with the MP and Seann Walsh.
Jill and Seann then teased Matt by suggesting he signed up to next year's Love Island.
Coronation Street star Sue Cleaver also began plotting a revolution with Mike Tindall as they complained about their new camp leader's productiveness.
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Boy George said he was struggling to get on with Matt, while Charlene White said "seeing what Matt will and won't answer" has become a "sport" for her.
Taking to Twitter, one I’m A Celebrity viewer moaned: "#itv #ImACeleb stop letting Matt be bullied on your national programming. British turning against British, as a viewer it’s disgusting. Do better."
Another added: "Regardless of what Matt Hancock did, he’s a human & watching him straight up being bullied by ADULT celebrities is fully putting me off watching @imacelebrity this year, disgusting! What happened to preaching #bekind."
However, others were not so sympathetic.
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"I'm now seeing people say Matt Hancock is being bullied in #ImACelebrity," another fan tweeted. "Have these people ever seen the show before? The whole premise is people go in, willingly, for vast sums of money, to be voted to do awful trials in the name of entertainment and the hope of a career boost."
And someone else said: ";All these morons tweeting the ‘aww Matt Hancock seems a nice guy’ or ‘it’s bullying all this on Matt’. Get a grip."
Since arriving late in camp, Matt has been voted to do all but one of the Bushtucker Trials.
Before he was spared from Tuesday night's trial, which instead saw Babatunde Aleshe, Chris Moyles and Boy George win just three stars, senior politician Jacob Rees-Mogg waded into the row.
He told that Hancock was "ill-advised"; to take part.
Rees-Mogg said: "I think the treatment he is getting has gone beyond good fun and become deeply unpleasant. And it rather worries me that people think it is funny to humiliate somebody in this way.
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“I think it is a regrettable society side of our culture and I think it's gone from being, ‘Matt Hancock has gone into the jungle, let's tease him a bit, to something really rather unpleasant.
“I’m not too comfortable with what is being reported as to the way he's being treated. I can't say I've ever watched the programme, but I've certainly read the newspapers about it. And I think it's just gone too far and has become unpleasant.”
