He's outlasted Seann Walsh (who is hilarious) and Mike Tindall (who is basically the most competent all round man ever). Something's fishy. He's a charmless man.
The Matt Hancock File
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He's outlasted Seann Walsh (who is hilarious) and Mike Tindall (who is basically the most competent all round man ever). Something's fishy. He's a charmless man.
Well did you read that Guardian article I posted? He's got a PR machine behind him.
teqniq
DisMembered
Haha yes i have now. Even his PR guy doesn't think much of him but that's not what he's getting paid for.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
The thing is he’s not coming across as likeable in the programme. And the producers aren’t editing his footage to make him look nice. That’s not what he’s there for. He was there to create tension, so there would be arguments. I’m a veteran watcher of the show. They don’t want the camp mates to get on. (I first watched out of curiosity when John Lydon went in the show and I got hooked).
So, from that point of view he’s actually been a disappointment. When people argued with him, or brought up his record in government, he just stood there awkwardly and made weird faces but basically just took it. He’s coming across as odd and emotionally inept.
On one occasion in a trial he was getting gunked with fish guts and offal while answering general knowledge questions. One was on geography, and involved which world location was furtherest from where they were in the Australian rain forest. He got it wrong. But instead of saying “oh damn, I got that wrong” like a normal human being, he made excuses about having gunk on his goggles and not seeing the question properly. Except we knew he’d understood the question because he’d already correctly explained the question to his team mate, Owen. So it just came across like a man baby not wanting to get a question wrong.
He’s also been shown as media hungry. They wear items of clothing (t shirts, gilets) with their name and the phone number to call to vote for them. He’s been carefully placing items he isn’t wearing so the name and number is visible to the camera. He’s obviously been briefed to do so.
On another occasion he was being “interviewed” (they’re bored and do things to pass time) by camp mate Chris Moyles. At the end another camp mate asked h if he had any questions he’d ask Chis. He didn’t even answer. Nothing. The other camp mate said “that’s a no then, is it?” and Hancock just did this awkward embarrassing half laugh that he does. It was weird.
So, no, he isn’t being edited favourably. He’s awkward, weird and a bit of a prick. But mostly boring. And I suppose that was his briefing too: stay out of conflict. Be boring.
If I was to guess, the people voting for him are doing so out of badness to annoy audience members who don’t like him. The Guardian piece seems to bear that out if it’s young Tik-tok users (pre teens and young teens) who don’t follow politics and want to annoy older viewers.
So, from that point of view he’s actually been a disappointment. When people argued with him, or brought up his record in government, he just stood there awkwardly and made weird faces but basically just took it. He’s coming across as odd and emotionally inept.
On one occasion in a trial he was getting gunked with fish guts and offal while answering general knowledge questions. One was on geography, and involved which world location was furtherest from where they were in the Australian rain forest. He got it wrong. But instead of saying “oh damn, I got that wrong” like a normal human being, he made excuses about having gunk on his goggles and not seeing the question properly. Except we knew he’d understood the question because he’d already correctly explained the question to his team mate, Owen. So it just came across like a man baby not wanting to get a question wrong.
He’s also been shown as media hungry. They wear items of clothing (t shirts, gilets) with their name and the phone number to call to vote for them. He’s been carefully placing items he isn’t wearing so the name and number is visible to the camera. He’s obviously been briefed to do so.
On another occasion he was being “interviewed” (they’re bored and do things to pass time) by camp mate Chris Moyles. At the end another camp mate asked h if he had any questions he’d ask Chis. He didn’t even answer. Nothing. The other camp mate said “that’s a no then, is it?” and Hancock just did this awkward embarrassing half laugh that he does. It was weird.
So, no, he isn’t being edited favourably. He’s awkward, weird and a bit of a prick. But mostly boring. And I suppose that was his briefing too: stay out of conflict. Be boring.
If I was to guess, the people voting for him are doing so out of badness to annoy audience members who don’t like him. The Guardian piece seems to bear that out if it’s young Tik-tok users (pre teens and young teens) who don’t follow politics and want to annoy older viewers.
Yes, he's not coming across as likeable from what I've seen. But not necessarily unlikeable. He's just... nothing. Empty. There's nothing there. How a big charming personality like Walsh could get on so well with him for weeks is a mystery. On his exit interview he did claim Hancock is 'lovely'. Which is baffling.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Exactly. So it’s not going to do his political career any good. Butter commercials, maybe.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Yes. Mike Tindall has the measure of him, I’m sure.
not a trot
Well-Known Member
Thatchers daughter won it a few years back.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
had to goggle that waste of breath...
failed unelectable conservative who now a rentagob for GB news
some Career
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
I haven't seen it apart from a couple of clips reproduced elsewhere, but before this started I'd have struggled to come up with any kind of scenario that saw hancock survive to the latter stages of the competition. He's got the bigger sin of killing all those people + the smaller but more vivid sin of hypocrisy (his relationship). He's also dull as shit and, at a time of tory unpopularity... a tory. Not only that, a tory who has deserted his post in a cynical bid at redemption.
I do get the point about his PR operation and the more general one about people who are not interested in politics. But still....
I'm not wise to the ways of Tik-tok, but the idea of him having a backing amongst young people is shall we say, counter intuitive. I dunno, maybe certain things that defy apparent logic can happen in a social media drenched world, who knows. But still, this is fucking matt hancock we are talking about. 
I'd still like to batter him to death with the corpses of Ant and Dec.It doesn’t matter how many people hate him or how much they hate him. The game doesn't involve voting against him. It only matters how many people vote for him.I haven't seen it apart from a couple of clips reproduced elsewhere, but before this started I'd have struggled to come up with any kind of scenario that saw hancock survive to the latter stages of the competition. He's got the bigger sin of killing all those people + the smaller but more vivid sin of hypocrisy (his relationship). He's also dull as shit and, at a time of tory unpopularity... a tory. Not only that, a tory who has deserted his post in a cynical bid at redemption.
I do get the point about his PR operation and the more general one about people who are not interested in politics. But still....
Mind you, I’m still surprised there are more people who want to vote for him than there are people who want to vote for other contestants. Sure, it would only take a relatively small but dedicated Tory core to at least take him through the earlier stages. A good million votes at least must be needed to get him to the later stages, though.
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Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
Perhaps this has backfired and people hate him even more
There was clearly something going on behind the scenes to get him to that point. He was just. Dull. I mean Boy George was a prick but at least that was funny. It was amusing watching Chris Moyles attempting to hide what an utter shit he is but that was entertaining in itself. Hancock. There was nothing. He was diligent. Yeh that's the word. Diligent. Efficiently won all his trials and was a half decent chef for the camp. But whenever someone came up with a 'funny' idea to amuse themselves he would try to engage but it was embarrassing.
An interesting insight into his character though.
An interesting insight into his character though.
He was no good at jockeying for social position. At best he was tolerated, I mean the others didnt have much of a choice. Some were openly hostile and they were the first voted out. It all looked very fishy.
The ratings were through the roof however. Which again raises eyebrows.
Diligently placing his gilet with his phone number every morning in front of the cameras every morning was pretty funny. And Tindall turning it around. And how many times could he mention he was dyslexic? Yes, we get it Matt.
maomao
普費斯
Tbf I've never actually watched it, nor would I, so I'm just making guesses on the basis of second and third hand accounts. Which is what u75 is for.
It's surprisingly addictive viewing. I have a no reality TV policy but broke it in order to see Hancock eating penises and vaginas and then got hooked on the other contestants. I hope this isn't a slippery slope into Love Island.
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
I don't care what the reasons are. Even if it stopped the death of kittens I wouldn't want to see this horror again.
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
But he knows this will outrage people, and so he can say "i'm outraging all the right people", and on it goes, self eating like an ouroboros made of self loathing. I hate Tom Harwood and people like him for this reason and hope that the gods visit suffering on them at the earliest opportunity
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
We were told when the winner was announced that there had been “12 million votes since last night”.
To break that down. The app gives you five votes. You can split them or use them all on the same person. So straight away we need to divide by 5 to get individuals. Then, the final was split in two. The first vote eliminated Hancock, then lines reopened for the final two to elect a winner. So, at a rough count and assuming the same numbers voting in each stage of the final, you need to divide by two again to get voter numbers.
However, he can’t have had more than 400,000 voting for him. And it must have been fewer.
Complicating factors:
- they didn’t specify if any part of yesterday’s votes got into the tally of “votes since last night”.
- the final two would have had votes in both stages, whereas Hancock only had votes in the initial stage.
So, that’s far more thought that I’ve ever given to the psephological ramifications of I’m A Celebrity. I don’t even vote in it. I just watch.
ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
I watched pretty much the whole thing. I'm not ashamed to admit that I watch it - it's really quite funny seeing people here earnestly explaining that they don't watch it, but "just happened" to see a clip or two.
I watched pretty much the whole thing. I'm not ashamed to admit that I watch it - it's really quite funny seeing people here earnestly explaining that they don't watch it, but "just happened" to see a clip or two.
Indeed. It's quite captivating. It became my 9pm routine. It's an exercise in psychology if nothing else. I've no idea how the fuck you could continue conversation like that for 3 weeks. Particularly without alcohol like in Big Brother where everyone used to be smashed the entire time. It must be hell. I'd rather eat a rat's vagina than sit there talking shit with Hancock tbh.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
It’s hilarious. “Of course, I don’t watch popular light entertainment!”
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Very well put.
