MATT Hancock failed a gruelling interrogation in tonight’s Celebrity SAS finale — as tearful Gareth Gates was the only recruit to pass.
Captors grilled ex-Health Secretary Hancock as he tried to cover up a jungle mission.
He said: “It was one of the most difficult things I’ve done.
“A very unpleasant experience.”
Billy Billingham, of the hit Channel 4 show, said: “We ask ‘Would you have that person with you at the end if it was real?’
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“And Matt would not have been that person.”
Gareth, 39 — runner-up in 2002’s Pop Idol — said: “I wanted to prove to myself that I am strong.”
Model Danielle Lloyd, Love Islander Teddy Soares and athlete Perri Shakes-Drayton also made the final.
Matt resigned as Health Secretary in 2021 after The Sun exposed shock CCTV footage which showed him breaking his own Covid rules in an adulterous clinch with former aide, now girlfriend, Gina Coladangelo.
He quit his Cabinet post in 2021 and is now an independent MP for West Suffolk after the Tories removed the party whip.
He filmed SAS: Who Dares Wins in the jungles of north Vietnam shortly before attempting to win over the public by appearing on I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! last November.