 I know one person who won't be laughing and that's Charlene whose late great-aunt Dell died of Covid during the pandemic. It was heartbreaking to watch Charlene, also a panellist on ITV's Loose Women, break down in tears as she spoke so movingly about the small, socially distanced funeral her family had to hold for Dell as they, like millions of us across the country, stuck to the rules. Meanwhile Hancock and his pals were busy breaking the very rules they created and demanded the rest of us abide by. It was basically one rule for them and one rule for us. When he was health secretary, Hancock, who looked like the cat who got the cream whe){kind=link}
Columnist Eva Simpson on the news the former Health Secretary is set to take part in I’m A Celebrity, despite already being on trial for presiding over the UK having Europe’s worst Covid death toll
Until yesterday, I had been really looking forward to the return of ITV’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
I was especially looking forward to seeing how my pal, the brilliant ITN newsreader Charlene White, would fare in the Australian jungle.
But now three weeks of what’s usually the best reality show on the telly has been ruined by the arrival of Matt Hancock, a man described as “a total prat” by some of his own colleagues.
Last year, producers and the show’s inimitable presenters Ant and Dec got it spot-on when, at the height of the Mirror’s revelations that No10 had been at the centre of repeated Covid rule-breaking parties, they started an episode with a skit that showed just how much the story had cut through and disgusted ordinary Britons.