Matt Hancock may cause the UK to combust with embarrassment

The former health secretary is volunteering himself for a diet of koala ringpiece in the hope of some redemption

- Nick Curtis

AT Mancock. Matt Halfcock. The Oatmilk Tray Man. The wandering member for West Suffolk.

He who makes Alan ParH tridge look like Viggo Mortensen. Making fun of former health secretary Matt Hancock is like shooting fish in a barrel.

No, wait, it's like shooting a fish that spends its entire life flopping around a target range, in an ill-advised poloneck jumper, shouting "shoot me, shoot me".

I've lost count of the ways Hancock has embarrassed himself and us. The attempt at parkour worse, his caught on-camera clinch with aide Gina Coladangelo, his soon-to-be-remaindered Pandemic Diaries.

Now, though, Hancock is to join ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, which is back in Australia after two years away. He's volunteering himself for a two-week diet of koala ring piece and maggot facials in the hope of a second act in the public eye.