Yes Fast-forward to today, Gina Coladangelo and Matt Hancock are still together, and going stronger than ever. Gina Coladangelo sealed the deal by selling the £7.5 million family home she once shared with her ex-husband to none other than celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay in March 2023.
Hancock reflected on their affair with a mix of remorse and defiance. He says, “Of course, I regret the pain we caused,” he admitted. “Going through something like that in the public eye is excruciating. But what can I say? I fell in love,” in an interview.
Matt didn’t sugarcoat the fallout with their six children. He also says, “Ending a marriage is brutal. The first few months were hell. But Gina and I? We’re in this for real. And slowly, it gets… less messy.”
What happened betweeen Gina Coladangelo and Matt Hancock?
Gina Coladangelo became famous in 2021 when photos showed her kissing Health Secretary Matt Hancock. This was against his own COVID rules. People were shocked and the story got bigger when Hancock talked about her a lot on I’m A Celebrity in 2022. At the COVID inquiry in 2023, people asked questions about their relationship. Important people like Dominic Cummings said Hancock didn’t tell the truth during the pandemic. Others said he should have lost his job earlier to protect the NHS.
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Hancock was married for 15 years before his affair with Gina. He quit as health secretary in June 2021 because he broke his own COVID rules to be with her. After this, the couple went on many holidays together to show they were serious. Later, Hancock tried to explain himself on a podcast. He said, “I quit because I broke the rules I made. I couldn’t help falling in love.” He said the same thing on I’m A Celebrity. Hancock always says the same thing when people ask about this.
How Gina Coladangelo and Matt Hancock started dating?
Recalling their early days on Steve Bartlett’s podcast, Hancock painted an almost sweet (if ironic) picture: “I’ve known Gina for over half my life. We met back when we were students, trying to make each other sound vaguely human on air. She spent a ridiculous amount of time coaching me to, well… emote like an actual person.”
So there you have it: long before ministerial blunders and tabloid firestorms, their bond was forged in the noble pursuit of teaching a future Health Secretary how not to sound like a robot. Some lessons, it seems, take a lifetime to stick.
Meet Gina Coladangelo Kids
Gina is mother to three children Talia, Layla and Bruno with her former husband, retail mogul Oliver Tress. But her first husband was Glynn Gibb, a property lawyer whom she married in 2004. Her first marriage didn’t last long as she later married Oliver Tress, the founder of Oliver Bonas in 2009. Not to be outdone, Matt comes with his own ready-made trio from his 15 year marriage to Martha Hancock two sons and a daughter.
Still, that £7.5 million payout from Gordon Ramsay for Gina’s old family home probably cushions the blow somewhat. Every cloud, as they say.
Gina Early and Family Life
Gina Coladangelo’s birthplace is Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, where she was born on 13 August 1977. She was raised by an Italian multi-millionaire father, Rino Casmira Coladangelo, who transitioned from medicine to NHS leadership, and her mother, Heather, who ran a flower business.
Gina earned her degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University in 1998 after three years of study. It was here she first encountered Matt Hancock, with her reading news at the student radio station while he covered sports. She later completed a master’s degree at Oriel College.
Her family’s deep NHS connections later became contentious when her brother Roberto’s healthcare company secured a £28 million NHS contract. While investigators found no impropriety, Hancock faced criticism for not declaring this personal link, foreshadowing future controversies over blurred personal and professional boundaries in their world.
