This isn’t their first meeting apparently (Picture: ITV)

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! latecomers Matt Hancock and Seann Walsh have actually met before entering the jungle, it turns out.

The former health secretary and comedian made quite the entrance as they joined the likes of Charlene White, Mike Tindall and Jill Scott in the jungle yesterday.

After undertaking their first bushtucker trial, Mr Hancock showering in a scene we did not need to see, and also breaking into Ed Sheeran song, the pair had quite the first episode.

And it kicked off with them meeting each other, in which Walsh could hardly believe who he was joined by.

But, it turns out this wasn’t their first time meeting.

In a since resurfaced clip from Vittorio’s podcast with Walsh, the former Strictly star recalls the story.

‘Genuinely, swear on my life this is crazy. I am in Queensway, Hyde Park tube station, and I get on the lift, and I am stood literally next to Matt Hancock, who if you remember was caught kissing someone that wasn’t his partner,’ Walsh said.

The pair seem to have been getting on so far (Picture: James Gourley/ITV/Shutterstock)

He continued: ‘But I thought, “He probably doesn’t know who I am,” and I wanted to pull down my mask and go, “I know how you feel”‘, hinting at his own affair, which was exposed when pictures emerged of him kissing his dance partner Katya Jones.

Mr Hancock was found breaching social distancing guidelines he helped to create when CCTV footage of him kissing his former aide Gina Coladangelo was leaked.

Walsh continued on the podcast: ‘I swear on my life that’s true. How crazy is that? I’m like pulling down my mask going, “Remember me? I’m the OG. I’m the OG, look.” It’s me and him.’

Ms Colangelo was caught kissing Mr Hancock during lockdown last year (Picture: Rex)

Walsh and Jones were caught in their own scandal shortly before (Picture: BBC)

‘Everyone was looking at the former health secretary that had to deal with the global pandemic, as opposed to the guy from the dance show,’ he added.

On Wednesday’s episode, Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly couldn’t help but rip into Walsh’s strictly scandal.

‘And we all know what happened the last time Seann was paired up with someone on a reality show…’ Ant chuckled before Dec added: ‘Let’s hope he doesn’t get off with Matt Hancock!’

At that moment, Ant grabbed Dec and warned him: ‘Never ever say the words “get off with Matt Hancock!” I can’t even say the words.’

Walsh was on Strictly Come Dancing back in 2017, and a few weeks into the series, photos and videos emerged of him kissing his dance partner outside a pub in London.

The duo quickly found themselves in the centre of a media storm, as Jones was married to fellow professional dancer Neil Jones and that Walsh had a girlfriend of five years, Rebecca Humphries.

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A few days later Humphries released a statement on social media, revealing that the night that Sean cheated, she was sitting ‘alone at home’ on her birthday.

Walsh and Jones both issued public apologies about what they both referred to as a ‘one-off drunken mistake’.

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! continues tonight at 9pm on ITV.

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