To care more that Matt Hancock cheated on his wife than disregarded his own Covid guidance

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I don't watch I'm a Celebrity, but I have read this BBC article: Matt Hancock asks for forgiveness
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63604403

When he said he "fell in love", did any of his fellow contestants point out that he had a wife and kids, who were probably more traumatised by his humiliation than he was, because they lost a husband and father? I wonder if they are now watching the show with forgiveness in mind?

His wife has maintained a dignified silence . In retrospect she might be better off without him .

I don’t think he should be in the jungle , it’s a bad decision.

however I agree a lot of other people have a bit of a holier than thou attitude in there that’s not very attractive.

i couldn't care less about his affair, no different to loads of other families, why just pick on his affair.

He has always come across as being very intense . It is a shame he could channel t into being effective.

Didnt Ant have an affair and was banned from driving twice, no one seems to nbe picking on him or poking fun.

I do not think that people who no longer find one another attractive or interesting should feel obliged to plod along together for twenty odd years in a loveless marriage. He has divorced his wife, not his kids. What is she expected to say about it publicly? It happens all the time.

I couldn't care less about his Covid rules or party gate.

His turning his wife and kids' lives upside down makes him a grade A bastard

Yabu. He's of course a terrible father and husband for cheating but his actions directly caused many untold unnecessary deaths and suffering - as a PP said upthread about not seeing her gran in her last days.

I also imagine he was working 12-15 hour days away from home, it’s full on affair territory. Especially in the height of his obvious mid life crisis.

I think he gave her the job to more easily fuck her without his wife finding out, didn’t he? He’d known her for years, I don’t think the affair just mysteriously started when they happened to find themselves in the same office.

Boris tried to do the same with Carrie, before his wife chucked him out and he could do it openly.

Absolutely this ^^

He is a disloyal and untrustworthy individual fuelled by self-interest alone. I havent, and won't, watch this programme but have just heard a snivelling cry for forgiveness on the radio. I'm not in a forgiving mood, it's made me very cross. He should have the sense to shut up. Each sentence from him makes me fume and I havent been affected by him as an individual. Odious man, I hope his constituents recall him.

No I disagree, sorry.

I think his behaviour towards his wife and kids was cowardly and selfish (and I think the way he is talking about it on here is trite and self indulgent).

But ultimately health policy that affects millions of people during a time of national crisis is more important.

Marriages don’t always last forever. It’s sad and his conduct has been poor but people have the right to leave marriages and do often behave poorly at times of emotional stress.

As reasons to dislike him go, it’s not more important than the COVID rules.

He cheated. People do. But I felt it was very dismissive of his wife and kids to say (fairly jovially) "I fell in love" without any caveat that that had a negative effect on his family. He said Gina being on the bridge was the best thing about being voted off.
He was just very blase about it ignoring that both their spouses and children will have been affected.

not really-and he didnt seem at all bothered when charlene said her aunt died and she co9uldnt see her-seems more worried about being caught cheating

If you don't find your wife interesting or attractive and a new shiny toy comes along, then separate from your wife first. It's the lying and cheating that is disgusting, not the falling in love with someone else.

Can I actually vote to get rid of him?

The affair is neither here nor there for me. People have affairs and other people broke the rules (granted they weren't the ones that made them).

I'm more pissed off about the fictional 'ring around the care homes' and the PPE scandals. So many deaths, so many distraught and grieving families... so many lies.

But hey - he's got a book to publicise and a divorce to pay for so what do they matter? 🤬🤬🤬🤬

I would think that getting caught in a clinch accelerated the breakup of their respective marriages, possibly beyond where they were intending for it to go. They may have been in a long term on-the-job affair and hoped to keep it under wraps as so many people appear to do out there. Perhaps he has to repeatedly convince himself that it is more significant than lust or limerence because he is a player who has now had to commit to prove that he has some grasp of honour.

His affair is none of my business. I have NO idea what sort of relationship he had with his then wife. I don't care.

The covid rules he imposed on everyone else are everyone's business. I care very much about them and for the many people who suffered due to these ludicrous 'guidelines'.

The affair is a distraction from rules that were barely legal, couldn't be policed, were inhumane.

Yes, thats how i imagined it going down

Im so sorry you had a terrible experience, I've been through the same but not in Covid times and I felt myself triggering after reading your post. The smug, self entitled Hancock just represents the awful. decisions made and reprehensible behaviour of elected people who couldn't run an egg and spoon race never mind government.

I care that he continues to rub his wife and kid's faces in his behaviour.

I care that he is being paid by the public to do a job but has taken a second job and that's seemingly ok. He has a summer recess if he really wants to take himself off doing unrelated media work. A teacher couldn't decide to take 3 weeks out of teaching to go off earning money elsewhere without consequences, so why should he?

No, you have to vote to keep people in. Unfortunately this means he'll stay in for quite a while as people think they're torturing him by constantly voting for him. I wish people had just ignored him, that would have hurt him more than eating a sheep's vagina

Arent they all just in it for the money , BG being paid 500k and at the moment the rest of them are being paid thousands just to sit around a campfire, dont any of them have jobs to go to either.

Imagine if they could have got him in the jungle too that would make interesting viewing

I think MHs failure to do his job properly, failure to assess risk properly, failure to ensure PPE properly available at care homes in particular (which directly led to many deaths that may have been avoided) - is a bigger issue than his inability to be faithful to his wife.