Matt Hancock reveals crude SAS nickname and says he was punched by footballer
18.09.2023 - 10:39
/ ok.co.uk
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins made "a human being" out of former health secretary Matt Hancock, apparently. The 44 year old has attracted so much vitriolic energy over the last couple of years - mainly thanks to his mid-lockdown jaunt to visit a secret girlfriend while the rest of the UK couldn't see their nearest and dearest - but by appearing in the last series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and this month's hellish SAS show, the politician is hoping to come out smelling of roses in the public eye.
"They were pretty rude. Calling me names, taking the p**s out of my surname, and God, it p***ed me off," Matt told The Sun of the popular programme's grizzled directing staff and instructors, who monikered him 'Matt Handjob'. "But everybody has a view of me, and I’d rather people had a view of me as I really am.
So with all my flaws on the show, when you’re under massive physical strain and you’ve been woken up in the middle of the night, you can’t hide.
To make something like this work, you’ve just got to go all in. I went in as a politician and I came out as a human being." Production on SAS took place in the jungles of Vietnam right before Matt's stint in the Australian rainforest last autumn, where he had a bitey run-in with a scorpion. "I wanted to do it to test my limits," he revealed.
"I’d just come through a pretty tough period being the health secretary in the pandemic and I wanted to push my limits in terms of resilience and physically. I took the attitude that you must absolutely throw yourself at what’s in front of you. You can’t hide your personality.
There’s nothing to hide behind.
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