 The MP broke his own social distancing rules ( Image: The Sun) Matt and Gina met at Oxford University in the late 1990s when he covered sport at the university's Oxygen FM, while she read the news. It was also at Oxford that Matt met Martha. The pair went on to have three children and were married for 15 years in what Martha is said to have believed was a 'happy and stable' union. The two couples are said to have been so close that Gina and Oliver celebrated Christmas at parties with the Hancocks. And it was Matt who hired PR guru Gina as a non-executive director at the Department of Health with an annual allowance of £15,000. Matt and Gina were old uni pals before their affair ( NEIL HALL/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) But in a February 2022 interview, Matt - who subsequently stepped down as health minister - explained how friendship turned into something more. "I've known Gina for more than half of my life," he told the Diary of a CEO podcast. "And we first actually worked together on student radio back in the Oxford days. "And so we spent a lot of time together, ironically, trying to){kind=link}
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here star Matt Hancock was caught on camera enjoying a steamy tryst with his aide Gina Colandangelo
He might have served as health minister during the pandemic, but it’s Matt Hancock’s extra curricular activities that he’ll be most remembered for.
The I’m A Celebrity star’s marriage imploded after he was caught on camera snogging his aide and uni pal, Gina Coladangelo, in his Whitehall office in May 2021.
At a time when he was still urging the country to stay away from each other, CCTV recorded Matt, 44, and Gina, 45, enjoying a steamy clinch.
Gina was then married to the multi-millionaire founder of Oliver Bonas, Oliver Tress, while Matt was living with unsuspecting wife Martha and their three children.