Ant McPartlin appeared to make a savage dig at Matt Hancock’s expense on last night’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, with one fan dubbing the moment an ‘epic burn’.

During Friday’s episode, the former health secretary joined forces with Mike Tindall for the Fallen Stars Bushtucker Trial, during which they were tasked with piecing broken stars back together.

They were able to win a certain amount of time to figure out the puzzle by answering trivia questions, with wrong answers putting them at risk of being dunked into a gruesome tank.

At one point, Ant asked Mike: ‘What is the name for a male rat?’

As Mike scoffed, Ant then turned to Hancock as he asked: ‘Do you happen to know this, Matt?’

‘Not sure,’ the politician replied, as Mike threw out a guess that the term for a male rat was a ‘stud’.

Unfortunately, he guessed wrong, with the correct answer being ‘buck’ – meaning that he was dunked into the dreaded tank below.

While Ant might have been posing an innocent question to Hancock when the rat question came up, some viewers interpreted the quip as a sly dig at the MP.

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