 The affair ended his 15-year marriage to wife Martha He is then said to have woken their youngest child, aged eight, to tell them he was leaving. 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 and 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. Martha - who at the time was suffering from long covid after contracting the illness from her husband - refused to be drawn publicly. "Martha has behaved in an incredibly dignified way," a source told the Sun on Sunday. Matt and Gina first met at Oxford University, where Matt also met Martha ( NEIL HALL/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) "The poor woman has been){kind=link}
Two marriages were destroyed when Matt Hancock was caught kissing aide Gina Coladangelo on camera despite social distancing recommendations
Matt Hancock’s 15-year marriage to osteopath Martha came to a crushing end in June 2021 after scandalous CCTV footage of him kissing his aide was leaked.
The then health minister and current I’m A Celebrity star was reportedly forced to come clean after learning that images of his clinch with uni pal Gina Coladangelo, 45, were set to be published.
At the time of their Whitehall office tryst, Gina was also married to multi-millionaire Oliver Bonas founder, Oliver Truss, with whom she has three kids.
According to The Times, Matt took action when he was warned that the images of his passionate snog with Gina were about to be published.