TikTok star Max Balegde says ‘Matt Hancock is a shame’

A Darwen TikTok star has slammed viewers for supporting the previous Well being Secretary Matt Hancock on ITV’s I’m A Superstar…Get Me Out of Right here.

The social media influencer, who goes by the identify Max Balegde, posted a video saying ranting about an episode that aired earlier this week.

Within the TikTok Max, who has nearly three million followers on the app, addressed the viewers who defend Matt Hancock.

The disgraced politician resigned final 12 months after getting caught having an affair with an worker, breaking his personal Covid guidelines, and had additionally been criticised all through the pandemic for handing Covid contracts to buddies and mishandling the discharge of hospital sufferers into care properties which was discovered to have brought on hundreds of deaths, and likewise oversaw the UK having the worst dying toll in Europe from Covid-19.

Max stated to his followers: “I simply must get throughout to a variety of the youthful individuals on this app considering, ‘oh why’s everybody being imply to Matt Hancock, he’s such a enjoyable man’.”

He continued to clarify why this opinion “annoyed” him a lot.

Max stated: “He enforced and made the foundations that we weren’t allowed to be with family members throughout lockdown. It was unlawful to see your dying dad and mom.”

Screenshots from Max Balegde’s video on TikTok (Picture: TikTok)

In Friday’s episode, Matt confronted a grilling from his fellow campers about breaking the Covid-19 social distancing guidelines in 2021.

He advised them that he hadn’t acquired a “lockdown wonderful” and that he did not break any legal guidelines as a result of “steerage is totally different”.

Scarlette Douglas responded: “So there’s a rule and there’s a regulation.”

Matt answered that “it was a mistake” as a result of “he fell in love with anyone”.

Within the TikTok clip, Max continued: “It’s a joke for him to sit down there and say, ‘oh no I didn’t break any guidelines, it was simply steerage.’

“Individuals had been getting fined for that steerage. It’s a f*****g shame.

“And he’s not solely performed that, however he’s come on and he’s selling a e book that he’s bloody doing. A p***ing e book!”

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Max shared that when he noticed Matt on the Capital’s Jingle Bell Ball final 12 months, he “knew then and there the person is an consideration seeker” whose “solely purpose is to make himself well-known and related.”

He added: “The truth that he’s sacrificed individuals’s final relationships with their dying households to take action, is an absolute f****g shame.

“You may’t blame I’m A Superstar… Get Me Out of Right here as a result of they knew if he’s on, everybody would watch it and they might get good scores.

“However he himself is absolute scum and I’m so mad that persons are feeling sorry for him… it’s completely disgusting.”

The TikTok has acquired over 235,000 likes in 24 hours and over 3,000 individuals have commented to share their ideas.

Many had been in settlement with one of many high feedback stating: “Say it louder for the individuals on the again.”

One other wrote: “I like you for this, saying this along with your platform is necessary to remind individuals of what he’s performed.”

Nevertheless, some customers took to defend the MP with one remark saying: “Matt is a legend and I hope he wins.”

Matt Hancock has defended his determination to seem on I am a Superstar by saying it’s going to enable him probability to attach with individuals who do not usually comply with politics, to lift consciousness of causes he cares about, and is donating a portion of his look charge to charity.

When it was revealed Hancock, who left his spouse and kids for his mistress when his dishonest behaviour was uncovered, was getting into the Jungle, he was suspended by the Conservative Celebration and lots of MPs criticised his determination.

You may watch I’m A Superstar… Get Me Out of Right here on ITV and the ITV Hub.