Matt Hancock's lover Gina Coladangelo breaks cover (without her wedding ring) as her first husband's friend describes her marital woes as 'karma'

• Ms Coladangelo, 43, wore a sleeveless black top and no wedding ring on outing
• Exclusive photograph comes a fortnight after Mr Hancock was forced to resign
• Marriage to Mr Tress, 54, with whom she has three children, is reportedly overMatt Hancock’s lover Gina Coladangelo looks deep in thought as she strides across a London common, phone in hand.

  There was no sign of a wedding ring, but there was some evidence of her estranged husband Oliver Tress: the pink £42 crossbody handbag she carried was made by Oliver Bonas, the firm he founded.

  Ms Coladangelo, 43, wore a sleeveless black top, polka-dot skirt and aviator sunglasses for her excursion last week, and also carried a picnic cool bag slung over her shoulder.

  

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  Ms Coladangelo, 43, wore a sleeveless black top, polka-dot skirt and aviator sunglasses for her excursion last week

  

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  Gina Coladangelo ex husband Glynn Gibb. Mr Gibb was born in South Africa and returned there earlier this year to look after his mother, who is recovering from Covid at the family’s home near Pretoria

  The exclusive photograph comes a fortnight after Mr Hancock was forced to resign as Health Secretary after footage of a furtive clinch with his glamorous aide was leaked.

  Hours before the story broke, Mr Hancock was telling his osteopath wife Martha that he was leaving her, and Ms Coladangelo was seen loading bags into her car outside her £4 million family home in Wandsworth, South-West London.

  Her marriage to Mr Tress, 54, with whom she has three children, is understood to be over. The couple married in 2009, several years after she divorced her first husband, Glynn Gibb, who is understood to have been ‘very hurt’ by the circumstances of their split.This weekend, friends of Mr Gibb – who is now happily remarried – described her latest marital woes as ‘karma’. Speaking in South Africa, one friend said: ‘All I can say is this is karma, because this is how Gina’s marriage to Glynn ended.’

  Mr Gibb was born in South Africa and returned there earlier this year to look after his mother, who is recovering from Covid at the family’s home near Pretoria. The friend described him as ‘humble and very caring towards his mum’.

  When he married Ms Coladangelo in Cambridge in 2004, Mr Gibb worked for a London property firm and Ms Coladangelo was a consultant with the PR and lobbying firm Luther Pendragon.

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  Mr Hancock was forced to resign as Health Secretary after footage of a furtive clinch with his glamorous aide was leaked

  Mr Hancock and Ms Coladangelo met while students at Oxford University and she helped with his ill-fated bid to become Tory Party leader in 2019.

  Last March, she was given a part-time role as a non-executive director at the Department of Health, for which she was paid £15,000.

  She resigned from the role when her affair with Mr Hancock was exposed and he was forced to quit after admitting their clinch had broken social-distancing rules.

  This weekend, a photograph has emerged of Mr Hancock at Newmarket Racecourse in his Suffolk constituency last week, where he is believed to have received his second coronavirus vaccination.