![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/jungle-bound-matt-hancock-faces-calls-to-quit/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TELEMMGLPICT000314717764_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqRo0U4xU-30oDveS4pXV-Vv4Xpit_DMGvdp2n7FDd82k.jpeg&description=Matt Hancock is being paid nearly half a million pounds to appear on the reality series I'm A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!, according to a report. Sources told The Sun that the Tory MP was being paid around £400,000 to take part in the ITV series. The former health secretary has insisted he will make a sizeable donation to charity but the decision to take part in the reality series has infuriated families who lost loved ones during the pandemic. An insider told The Sun: 'Matt's pay deal with I'm A Celebrity is around £400,000 which is one of the largest ever show fees to have been paid out. 'ITV were keen for viewers to think the deal was worth around £150,000 but in reality it's over double that. 'They asked him to be on the show three times in a matter of weeks and the money definitely helped seal the deal.' Political opponents demanded on Wednesday night that Mr Hancock should stand down from Parliament and trigger a by-election in his safe Tory seat. Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs said the former health secretary must quit after he decided to join I'm a Celebrity. As the furore grew his local Conservative association, which remained loyal when his lockdown-breaking affair was exposed, turned on him. Mr Hancock was stripped of the whip on Tuesday, with Rishi Sunak criticising him for abandoning his constituents to go on the show. Mark Harper, the Transport Secretary, admitted that his former colleague was neglecting his duties as an MP by jetting off to Australia. Asked whether the former health secretary should quit Parliament, he replied: 'What he chooses to do in the future is a matter for him.' "In any normal workplace he'd be sacked,' said Daisy Cooper, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats. "Matt Hancock should resign and let the people of West Suffolk choose an MP who will actually serve them and treat them with respect.' Chris Bryant, the Labour MP for Rhondda, said there should be an immediate by-election in the seat, where his party trailed by 2){kind=link}
The former health secretary’s decision to take part in the reality series has infuriated families who lost loved ones during the pandemic
Matt Hancock is being paid nearly half a million pounds to appear on the reality series I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!, according to a report.
Sources told The Sun that the Tory MP was being paid around £400,000 to take part in the ITV series.
The former health secretary has insisted he will make a sizeable donation to charity but the decision to take part in the reality series has infuriated families who lost loved ones during the pandemic.
An insider told The Sun: “Matt’s pay deal with I’m A Celebrity is around £400,000 which is one of the largest ever show fees to have been paid out.