I’m A Celeb boss rejects claims Matt Hancock is being dropped into the jungle to ‘divide camp’

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AN I'M A Celebrity boss has been forced to reject claims that Matt Hancock has been signed up to deliberately "divide the camp".

Executive producer Olly Nash explained it wasn't the first time a politician or "people who have very strong views about certain things" had entered the jungle. “We’ve put in loads of politicians over the years, we also put in people who have had very strong views about certain things and sometimes it plays out in camp and sometimes it doesn’t," he told ITV News. “It’s not a question of trying to divide camp, we have never been a deliberately divisive camp. "It’s up to them to come into the camp and it’s up to them if they want to leave.” READ MORE ON I'M A CELEBOH BOY!

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