Kate Garraway shares reaction to Matt Hancock on I’m A Celeb
‘There will be people watching whose grief is still very raw from losing people’: Kate Garraway shares ‘visceral reaction’ to Matt Hancock on I’m A Celeb… amid Derek health battle
Kate Garraway has shared her views on former Health Secretary Matt Hancock appearing in I’m A Celebrity.
Appearing on Good Morning Britain on Thursday, Kate, 55, whose husband Derek Draper’s body is still ravaged by having contracted Covid, spoke on behalf of those affected by coronavirus.
The UK has had the highest number of deaths from coronavirus in western Europe. In terms of rate of coronavirus deaths, the UK has recorded 282.4 deaths per 100,000 population.
‘There will be people watching whose grief is still very raw from losing people’: Kate Garraway shared ‘visceral reaction’ to Matt Hancock on I’m A Celeb… on Thursday amid husband Derek Draper’s health battle
And following Kate’s own I’m A Celebrity stint in 2019, Susanna Reid asked what Kate’s reaction would be if she had been in the camp this year when Matt Hancock walked in.
She replied: ‘I think instinctively, me personally, would want to talk to him and ask him questions about it and try to get to the bottom of how he thought about it.
Is it appropriate? And following Kate’s own I’m A Celebrity stint in 2019, Susanna Reid asked what Kate’s reaction would be if she had been in the camp this year when Hancock walked in
Kate added: ‘There’s a very visceral gut reaction to Matt Hancock as he’s there as a very famous face of the time that was miserable for the entire country and we’re still living with the consequences of.
‘There will be people watching whose grief is still very very raw from losing people.
‘They won’t see that rawness of grief and sadness in the way that Matt Hancock is behaving on screen, because he’s laughing and having fun and trying to get to know a new group of people.
Recovery: Kate’s husband became seriously ill with Covid-19 in March 2020, suffering lasting damage to his organs and now receives 24 hour care
‘I think if they don’t see that, they are going to not feel healed in any way. I kind of wonder if that’s what Matt Hancock’s motive might be – to show people he does care. Not just heal his career, but heal a time people are still bleeding from.’
Matt entered the show on Wednesday night – and fell on a bridge – but several of the contestants said they wished they could have quit the show when he entered.
Charlene White wondered why he had come on the show when the Government has been stable ‘for five minutes’.
Kate said: ‘There’s a very visceral gut reaction to Matt Hancock as he’s there as a very famous face of the time that was miserable for the entire country and we’re still living with the consequences of’
Adding: ‘There will be people watching whose grief is still very very raw from losing people. ‘They won’t see that rawness of grief and sadness in the way that Matt Hancock is behaving on screen, because he’s laughing and having fun and trying to get to know a new group of people’
Chris Moyles said he had ‘taken a few weeks off his job’.
Boy George said his mum could have died from Covid and he would have walked from the show if that had happened.
Owen Warner said to Babatúndé Aléshé: ‘Do you have any strong views on the geezer?’
Babatúndé replied: ‘It’s hard to kind of push your views aside, it really is, because of the many people whose lives have been affected. But, at the same time, we’ve got to be welcoming and we’ve got to treat people as humans obviously.’
Coronation Street star Sue Cleaver said to Boy George and Mike Tindall of Mr Hancock: ‘He sticks out like a sore thumb.’