Hancock’s reality

Matt Hancock, the UK’s scandalprone former health secretary, sought an unlikely form of redemption yesterday, attempting to win I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here” — a gruelling, often gruesome reality show set in the Australian jungle. Hancock led Britain’s response to Covid-19 in the first year of the pandemic, telling people to stay away from others to protect the health service — then got caught breaking his government’s own rules when video emerged of him kissing and groping an aide he was having an affair with. He was forced to resign when the Sun newspaper published the CCTV images. Hancock finished third on the television show. Former England soccer star Jill Scott won the competition and actor Owen Warner finished second.