JENNIFER ARCURI Boris has ignored me like I was just a one night stand

Ms Arcuri refuses to admit that they were lovers but refers to their relationship as an “affair” in the programme, which airs tonight.

The pole-dancing tech entrepreneur’s links with Mr Johnson came under scrutiny following allegations she was given favourable treatment on business ventures during his time as Mayor of London.

She told of how Mr Johnson, 55, stopped taking her calls – and even passed the phone to an aide who started speaking Chinese when he realised it was her calling recently.

Ms Arcuri claimed she had tried to contact Mr Johnson for advice on how she should handle media interest over the scandal. But he continually refused to engage with her.

She said: “Shame on him for not answering the phone.”

And she added of her most recent call: “He heard my voice and I knew it was him. And he hung up.

“He said, ‘Yes, hello.’ And I simply asked, ‘Why did you block me?’

“I wasn’t calling to cause problems I merely wanted a simple acknowledgment for what had happened.”

Ms Arcuri landed in London this week for meetings with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Officials there ruled this month that a controversial grant to her Hacker House firm was “appropriate” after half of it was frozen amid claims it was not based in the UK.

Talking to the ITV team, Ms

Arcuri told of anger at Mr Johnson for cutting ties after the row surrounding their relationship blew up. She said: “It’s caused nothing but utter chaos, destruction and sheer disappointment on many fronts.

“As a result I am the collateral damage that’s left behind. The Prime Minister hasn’t been affected. He puts his head in the sand and looks the other way.

“I’m the one on the ground having to pick up the pieces from my name and my integrity, and my character and my business, you know, all these things that I, you know, never intended to have to explain publicly.”

The ITV show alleges that Ms Arcuri and Mr Johnson were having an affair for more than four years. She has refused to say if this is true and again would not be drawn on the nature of their relationship in the programme.

But she did say she had pressure from friends to “admit the affair”.

Sword

Ms Arcuri said: “When the story broke, half the people that reached out told me to categorically deny, deny, deny. The other half told me to admit the, er, affair, fall on the sword get it over with.”

Over the course of their friendship Mr Johnson, as Mayor, wrote to City Hall on nine occasions declaring various personal interests. But Ms