Reigning I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! champion Danny Miller believes Suffolk MP Matt Hancock should expect the public to use him as a “toy” before voting him off the show.

The actor, known for playing Aaron Livesy on ITV soap Emmerdale, took aim at the former Health Secretary while appearing on Good Morning Britain to discuss the upcoming series, which launches on Sunday.

Mr Hancock has had the Conservative whip suspended and come under fire from across the political divide after opting to join the show at a time when Parliament is sitting.

He has also been criticised in his West Suffolk constituency, with Andy Drummond, deputy chairman of West Suffolk Conservative Association, saying he was "looking forward to him eating a kangaroo’s penis".

East Anglian Daily Times:

Mr Miller, who was crowned King of the Castle during the 2021 series in Wales, predicted viewers will vote for Hancock to take part in all the show’s gruelling eating challenges.

He said: "I think he needs to just accept the fact that he is going to be everyone’s toy.

"Last year, unfortunately Naughty Boy got it because he did the first one (challenge) and he was very entertaining and everyone then went, ‘Naughty Boy, Naughty Boy, Naughty Boy!’.

"This year I think regardless of how entertaining he is, he needs to accept that what he has put us through, I think the public are going to say, ‘This is what we are going to put you through’.

"And when they are done with him they will just get rid of him, I think," he added.

During the 2021 series, the public repeatedly voted for music producer Naughty Boy to take part in the show’s so-called Bushtucker Trials.

Ten contestants are officially confirmed for the show so far, plus Mr Hancock who is expected to be one of two surprise entries to the camp in the days following the launch.

It will be the first series of I'm a Celebrity to be recorded in the Australian jungle for two years, with the show moving to Wales in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid travel restrictions.