Love is on the air for Matt

HE caused a political sensation when he was caught kissing his aide in breach of Covid rules – but Matt Hancock has told a new podcast he is ‘deeply in love’. The ex-Health Secretary’s affair with Gina Coladangelo was thrust into the spotlight after CCTV footage emerged of the pair in his office. He quit the Government and left his wife of 15 years.

Now the dust is settling, he is opening up about the romance. My pictures, above, show Matt and Gina at the recording of a yet-to-be released podcast, The Diary of a CEO with Dragons’ Den star Steven Bartlett, which was recorded a couple of weeks ago.

My mole tells me Matt, 43, became very emotional talking about falling in love and said it was ‘totally out of his control’. Matt said it happened quite suddenly, despite knowing Gina since university at Oxford.

He conceded it had been the ‘most difficult year of his life’. But Gina was sitting behind the cameras offering loving and supportive glances throughout.