 In absolute scenes on Tuesday night, the Channel 4 voiceover delivered a brutal dig at Matt Hancock, before he was even on our screens. The former health secretary is continuing his telly stint after coming in third place on I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! earlier this year, losing out to Owen Warner and Jill Scott. He now stars alongside the likes of Gareth Gates, Melinda Messenger and James Argent, as 16 celebrities are put through their paces in the jungle phase of SAS selection in Thung Ui, north Vietnam in the Channel 4 reality show. Love Island's Montana Brown and Michelle Heaton also star in this year's line-up… known as some of the 'nation's favourite stars', a category Hancock was brutally left out of. As the first episode of the new series followed Alison Hammond making her debut on The Great British Bake Off, the savage Channel 4 voiceover introduced: '16 recruits in an inhospitable landscape next tonight though, as the country's favourite stars and Matt Hancock all take part in SAS: Who Dares Wins.' To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video And viewers were absolutely loving it. 'Ha ha ha, voice-over man 'The country's favourite stars, and Matt Hancock take on Celebrity SAS' Utter brilliance,' one laughed. 'The Channel 4 voiceover guy is brutal tonight,' another added. Someone else penned: ''The country's favourite stars and Matt Hancock' Give that Channel 4 continuity announcer a raise.' This comes after the ex MP – who raked in £40,000 for his 80 hours work – spoke about how the trials on the show 'p****d[him] off' and that he was even given an unfortunate nickname, branded 'Matt Handj*b'. 'They were pretty rude. Calling me names, taking the p**s out of my surname, and god, it p****d me off,' he told The Sun. He continued: 'With all my flaws on the show, when you're under massive ph){kind=link}
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In absolute scenes on Tuesday night, the Channel 4 voiceover delivered a brutal dig at Matt Hancock, before he was even on our screens.
The former health secretary is continuing his telly stint after coming in third place on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! earlier this year, losing out to Owen Warner and Jill Scott.
He now stars alongside the likes of Gareth Gates, Melinda Messenger and James Argent, as 16 celebrities are put through their paces in the jungle phase of SAS selection in Thung Ui, north Vietnam in the Channel 4 reality show.
Love Island’s Montana Brown and Michelle Heaton also star in this year’s line-up… known as some of the ‘nation’s favourite stars’, a category Hancock was brutally left out of.