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Matt Hancock was paid an eye-watering £320,000 for his appearance on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
The MP appeared on screen for 720 hours (30 days) alongside the likes of Mike Tindall, Owen Warner and Queen of the Jungle, Jill Scott.
Documents published by the Houses of Commons state that Hancock received an eye-watering amount from Lifted Entertainment, ITV, with the fee being registered on January 11, 2023.
At the time of appearing on the show, Hancock explained that a sum of his fee would be donated to several charities although a spokesperson was unable to confirm if all of the amounts would be donated.
Matt Hancock's fee for his appearance on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! has been revealed (James Gourley/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)They told The Mirror that Hancock "will be making a donation to St Nicholas Hospice in Suffolk and causes supporting dyslexia - including the British Dyslexia Association, off the back of his appearance," but refused to comment when asked where the rest of the money would be going.
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But the 44-year-old claimed that the pay cheque was not what helped him decide to go onto the show, instead, he insisted that he thought "long and hard" having initially declined an offer from ITV.
Writing in The Sun, he said: "It wasn't the cheque that changed my mind. I will be making a donation to St Nicholas Hospice in Suffolk and causes supporting dyslexia off the back of my appearance.
Hancock previously claimed he would be donating some of his fee to charity (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)"I will, of course, also declare the amount I receive from the show to Parliament to ensure complete transparency, as normal."
A spokesperson later confirmed that the amount donated to each charity would be discussed with Mr Hancock upon his arrival back into the UK.
Despite initial backlash after entering the ITV programme, Hancock managed to sail through to the final and came third on the show after completing several Bushtucker Trials.
But while he may have landed in the final of the show, he didn't manage to win over all of the public and was subsequently booed by the audience after attending Seann Walsh's comedy gig.
The amount he has donated is yet to be revealed (ITV/REX/Shutterstock)Hancock and his I'm A Celeb co-star Boy George attended Seann's gig at London's Soho Theatre with one enraged audience member branding him a "w**ker".
In April 2022, Hancock apologised after the High Court ruled government policies on discharging patients from hospital into care homes at the onset of the pandemic were "unlawful".
And in June 2021 he was forced to resign as Health secretary after CCTV footage surfaced of him embracing his aide Gina Coladangelo at a time when this would breach his own rules on physical contact. It also ended his 15-year marriage.
The former Health Secretary announced he would not stand for the Conservative Party in the next General Election – despite his team insisting that he had no intentions of turning his back on politics.
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