FORMER I’M A Celebrity star Edwina Currie believes Matt Hancock will struggle to make enough money to support two households following his stint in the jungle.
The West Suffolk MP surpassed expectations and came third on the show after viewers voted for him to take part in the most Bushtucker trials as a revenge for his many mistakes during the Covid pandemic – including his affair with his aide Gina.
The pair were famously caught in a clinch on CCTV and later left their families to be together. Matt has three children with ex wife Martha.
But ex-Conservative MP Edwina believes he will come to regret his actions, saying: “The day may well come that he regrets all this, perhaps when he has to do a bit more growing up. He comes across as a rather immature personality.”
Speaking on behalf of Slingo, she went on to explain how the former health secretary might struggle to make money.
“He’s going to find it expensive running two households. This is going to be the bane of his life. He’s going to need a job that pays him a quarter of a million a year and I don’t think he’s going to find it that easy to get one.”
She went on to warn him how life in the media is in fact harder than it looks – and is unlikely to be as “lucrative” as he hopes.
“I think he’s decided at the age of 43 and with a new girlfriend, that he wants a new life and wants to be a TV pundit.
“He thinks it’s going to be a wonderful, lucrative, well paid job. Well, I’ve got news for him, because I’ve done that myself for many years, it ain’t enough to support two households!
“That’s what he’s going to have to do and he’s going to find it really quite hard outside of Parliament - much harder than he thinks.”
She added: “He’s tainted forever by his bad behaviour during the pandemic and by going off to the jungle. He’s going to find it quite a struggle when he comes back, whether he decides to stay in Parliament or not.
"I think he sees that there is other work out there for somebody as wonderful as himself, forgetting that most of his life that he’s been in politics. There’s nothing as ex as an ex-MP!”
Matt will soon be returning to the UK to face angry colleagues, constituents and questions about his political future in Westminster .
His 21 days in the Australian jungle have seen him suspended from the Conservative parliamentary party and criticised by colleagues including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
