Yahoo News Matt Hancock rushed to co-star's rescue on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins
The former health secretary saved Siva Kaneswaran during a game called 'murder ball'
Matt Hancock apparently waded in to save Siva Kaneswaran after he got into trouble as they played a gruelling game called murder ball on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.
The former health secretary and The Wanted star are both starring on the Channel 4 show, which sees celebs going through tough military training exercises.
According to The Sun, during one game in some boggy mud, Hancock ended up saving Kaneswaran.
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The ball game saw teams of contestants trying to get a tyre into a goal in thick, swampy mud.
Kaneswaran said the other players “squish” you down and that at one point he was “scared”.
Hancock said: “There was one moment when I pulled Siva's head out of the mud by his hair, because we were in a massive pile.”
The MP said he was close to the bottom of the pile of people too, and could “see that his (Kaneswaran's) face was underwater and he couldn't get his head up because there were people everywhere”.
“So I grabbed the back of his hair and yanked him up so he could breathe,” he said.
Hancock - who also did a stint in the jungle on I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here - has said Celeb SAS was "like nothing else".
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"It’s one of the toughest physical things I’ve ever done and it really opens your eyes and makes you really look into yourself," the 44-year-old said.
Other celebs taking part in this series of the show include Danielle Lloyd, James 'Arg' Argent, Michelle Heaton, Melinda Messenger and Gareth Gates.
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