Matt Hancock’s married aide flees household £4.5m dwelling in south west London

Matt Hancock’s married aide fled her £4.5million south west London dwelling hours earlier than footage of their hallway tryst had been uncovered.

Gina Coladangelo, 43, was helped by her husband – Oliver Bonas founder Oliver Tress, 54 – as she loaded packed luggage into the again of her £70,000 Audi Q7 on Thursday. Mr Tress didn’t go away along with her.

Mrs Coladangelo didn’t return to the home which the couple share with their three youngsters, witnesses instructed The Solar. The shutters have remained down because the information broke.

On Friday, pictures allegedly taken on Could 6 confirmed Mrs Coladangelo passionately kissing the Well being Secretary towards the door of his Whitehall workplace. A 60-second clip of the tryst was later launched. 

Mr Hancock had put Mrs Coladangelo, a buddy from college, on the general public payroll solely final yr. 

He made no touch upon claims he was having an affair with the 43-year-old in his apology yesterday, however added: ‘I’ve let individuals down and am very sorry’.

Final night time, the aide’s father Rino Coladangelo, 70, defended his daughter.

Mr Coladangelo is a millionaire businessman and chief govt of a world pharmaceutical firm.

Chatting with MailOnline, he refused to remark apart from to say: ‘My daughter is a superb lady.’ 

It comes amid the discharge of a sixty-second clip displaying Mr Hancock together with his adviser, showing to test whether or not the coast is obvious earlier than their kiss.

Mr Hancock is combating for his political life after Labour and the Liberal Democrats branded him a ‘hypocrite’ who ought to be fired for kissing a lover and ignoring his personal ‘arms, face and house’ mantra. 

Regardless of the sleaze scandal the 42-year-old nonetheless hopes to maintain his job and stated: ‘I settle for that I breached the social distancing steering in these circumstances. 

‘I’ve let individuals down and am very sorry. I stay centered on working to get the nation out of this pandemic, and would be glad about privateness for my household on this private matter.’

And backing him Boris Johnson’s spokesman instructed reporters: ‘You will have seen the Well being Secretary’s assertion and so I’d level you to that, I do not actually have something additional so as to add. 

‘He accepts that he has damaged the social distancing tips. The Prime Minister has accepted the Well being Secretary’s apology and considers the matter closed.’ 

He added ‘all the right procedures had been adopted’ in hiring Mrs Coladangelo, who’s paid £15,000 for round 15 days work per yr. 

In the meantime, a clip launched by The Solar captures the pair locking lips, displaying the Well being Secretary showing to lean on the door earlier than snogging Mrs Coladangelo, putting one hand behind her head and shifting the opposite in the direction of her backside. 

The aide reaches her hand to Mr Hancock’s cheek as he tilts ahead and the pair briefly break free, smiling in the direction of one another. 

The steamy clip ends with the pair pulling away and Mrs Coladangelo putting her arms behind her again whereas they communicate to one another. 

Mr Hancock, 42, employed Mrs Coladangelo as a non-executive director on the Division of Well being final September, and the photographs of them kissing within the departmental constructing had been allegedly taken on Could 6.

The mom of three is a significant shareholder – in addition to director – of the lobbying agency Luther Pendragon, the place she labored from 2002 till June 2014. She studied PPE at Oxford between 1995 and 1998, like Mr Hancock.  

She additionally works as communications director for Oliver Bonas, which was based by her husband Oliver Tress.

Mr Hancock met Mrs Coladangelo after they labored on Oxford pupil radio collectively within the Nineties. He was a minority sports activities reporter on Oxygen FM and they’d have socialised collectively at Exeter Faculty, Oxford.

In April 2020, Mrs Coladangelo recalled their pupil radio days at Oxford in a programme on BBC Radio 4, saying: ‘I learn the information and Matt learn the game. 

‘I’ve all the time joked with him that he did the game as a result of he wasn’t ok to do the information, however I feel it gave him a little bit of an early heads up into aggressive questioning from journalists and hacks.’