Matt Hancock made it to the final three (Picture: James Gourley/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Boy George has suggested I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! bosses may have been pushing for Matt Hancock to win the show.
The Culture Club legend, who was in the jungle for last year’s series alongside the disgraced former Health Secretary, has claimed some amusing moments of the campmates mocking Hancock were lost in the edit.
In an extract from new book Karma: My Autobiography published by the Mirror, he wrote: ‘Sue Cleaver used to serenade Matt in the voice of Margaret Thatcher singing I Will Survive. In the voice of Maggie!
‘It was TV gold but, like so many hilarious moments, it was never broadcast. I thought ITV would’ve secretly loved a Matt win.’
Boy George, whose real name is George O’Dowd, reflects on his time on the ITV reality show in a chapter entitled Jungle Is Massive and he confessed his ‘relief’ at leaving when he did.
‘Some campmates and their families at the hotel, I later found out, were speculating that Matt must have a team of professional bots working around the clock voting for him. I laughed at this because it really didn’t matter,’ he continued.
Boy George thinks ITV bosses would have loved a Hancock win (Picture:James Gourley/ITV/Shutterstock)
‘Once you walk across the bridge and out of camp you realise just how easy leaving would’ve been. I was the fourth out of the 11 to be voted out.
‘Was I disappointed not to have got further? No. It was a blessed relief. I was paid well for my dues.’
Jill Scott was named Queen of the Jungle (Picture: James Gourley/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Hancock made it to the final but finished in third place, with Lioness Jill Scott being named Queen of the Jungle and Hollyoaks star Owen Warner the runner-up.
Elsewhere in the book, the Karma Chameleon singer admitted he felt ‘upset’ after Scarlette Douglas questioned him about his time in jail, and suggested ITV producers may have tried to nudge her in that direction.
‘Scarlette upset me when she asked about my court case and prison. The question was casually and thoughtlessly posed out of the blue interrupting a terse conversation between me and Matt,’ he said.
‘At the time it felt like she had been told to ask the question. She had no idea of the facts and it upset me.
‘ITV will insist they do not instruct conversations but they plant questions in people’s minds. I was even asked to talk to Jill [Scott] about being gay.’
Metro.co.uk has approached ITV for comment.
I’m A Celebrity starts on Sunday, November 19 at 9pm on ITV2.
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