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Matt Hancock seen for first time since aide affair revealed as disgraced ex-Health Secretary seen at vaccination centre
DISGRACED Matt Hancock has been spotted for the first time since his lockdown-defying affair with a top aide was exposed.
The shamed ex-Health Secretary was snapped at a vaccination centre, where he is believed to have received his second Covid jab - having kept a low profile since The Sun exclusively revealed his steamy clinch with Gina Coladangelo.
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Mr Hancock - who felt compelled to resign after his bombshell affair scandal sparked fury across the country - broke cover this week and was pictured sitting alone in his parked car looking at his phone in Newmarket.
He visited the same venue he was supposed to attend an engagement at the morning after his affair was exposed, but scrapped in light of the revelation.
Student Guilherme Cavaleiro told it took him a moment to realise who was sitting in the car.
"I glanced at him and thought he looked familiar," the 20-year-old said.
"I took a second look and realised it was Mr Hancock.
"We didn't exchange any words – he looked very thoughtful, just staring at his mobile phone."
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Meanwhile, Mrs Coladangelo was also spotted out solo earlier this week s she walked her dog on Wandsworth Common - having removed her wedding ring.
Despite this, she is thought to still living in her marital home with her three children and husband Oliver Tress.
Married Mr Hancock was branded a hypocrite for canoodling with his mistress after being caught on CCTV, despite preaching to the nation to hug “carefully”.
His unknowing wife Martha thought their marriage was “happy and stable” and was even Facebook friends with her husband’s lover, it emerged.
Mr Hancock reportedly called their marriage quits when he learnt his affair was about to be exposed.
It comes as his relationship with his top aide is under further scrutiny amid claims she was by his side at an "intimate" drinks party two years ago.
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Mr Hancock is also facing fresh humiliation after he reportedly asked people to "call me the Minister for Hugs" just two months before the bombshell revelation.
It seems the pair have a deeper rooted relationship than once thought, as according to the , Ms Coladangelo joined him at a private party in Mr Hancock's Department of Health office in July 2019.
A year later, she was given a £15,000-a-year role as a non-executive director by her lover, where she was ironically tasked with scrutinising his department's work.
Mr Hancock's pals originally insisted they only struck up a relationship just days before the kiss on camera in his Whitehall office on May 6.
It may have been an attempt to deflect questions of how exactly his old university pal secured her cushy role - despite some quizzing at the time how she bagged the public adviser gig.
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It raised questions about "chumocracy" in Government - and the rooftop tipple two years ago seems to cement claims they were close long before the world knew about their secret rendezvous.
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They enjoyed drinks just a month after Mr Hancock dropped out of the Tory leadership race, which Ms Coladangelo advised him on.
A source who attended Mr Hancock's meetings at the time, where Ms Coladangelo was also present, said: "She was always around Matt and in his meetings. Every time I saw her, she was well dressed. I thought, 'This is a woman who looks after herself'."
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