Ex-Tory MP Penny Mordaunt invited to take part in terrifying new TV show after bellyflopping on Splash!

FORMER Tory MP Penny Mordaunt has been invited to aquatics with sharks for a caller TV amusement — though she whitethorn person done capable of that successful politics.

ITV producers privation the ex-Defence Secretary to look successful Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters, the Sun connected Sunday tin reveal.

Stars person to aquatics with a antithetic taxon which get bigger and much unsafe each time.

One governmental insider quipped: “We each thought Penny had escaped the sharks erstwhile she near Westminster.”

The amusement volition beryllium filmed aboriginal this twelvemonth — successful an country of the Bahamas known arsenic the “Shark Tank” — to coincide with the 50th day of movie blockbuster Jaws.

A statement of the amusement warns: “These A-listers volition propulsion past their limits to travel chemoreceptor to chemoreceptor with nature’s ‘villains’.”

Ms Mordaunt, who mislaid her Portsmouth spot successful July’s Conservative predetermination bloodbath, is nary alien to taking the plunge connected TV.

Ten years agone she bellyflopped successful swimwear connected ITV amusement Splash!

She went connected to go Britain’s archetypal pistillate Defence Secretary earlier taking implicit arsenic Leader of the Commons, and was tipped arsenic a aboriginal Tory leader.

An ITV spokesperson said: “The squad are talking to tons of antithetic celebrities to find retired who mightiness beryllium brave capable to instrumentality the plunge!

“The line-up volition beryllium announced successful owed course.”

Ms Mordaunt declined to comment.