Matt Hancock - the OW

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Anyone else a bit 🤮 about Matt Hancock reuniting with the mistress, after I’m a a Celeb when his wife is back at home looking after his kids that he left when he cheated on her?

What I mean is it’s, IMO far better to accept your fate as someone who doesn’t wanna be in a marriage, than to do a pathetic apology about ‘mistakes’ and spend the rest of your career pretending you have a happy marriage.

I do think it’s been a year and a half now he’s been split from his wife. It was an affair, it is no longer, they are now each others primary relationship. As much as they behaved badly at the time, I don’t think it’s good to keep dragging it out.

if someone came on here and said my husband left me 18 months ago, for his ow, I can’t believe he lives with his mistress and is having an affair everyone would day she’s no longer his mistress, it’s no longer an affair.

it’s not fair for the family to keep dragging it out, the days of scarlet letters are long gone.

I found it really distasteful. Describing themselves as partners or whatever when they've both got a wife and a husband. I can totally imagine how their betrayed spouses feel as it happened to me. It's so disrespectful to be rubbing their faces in it. I also found it really disgusting when he said the only thing worth coming out of the camp was seeing her. What about his children?

It's vomit inducing. They are horrible people and I hate him more now than I did when he went in. Total embarrassment and no self awareness whatsoever.

I am sorry it happened to you, but They are separated and possibly even divorced, they are partners now .

I don’t want to defend what they did at the time, of course it was heinous, but after the marriages ended and they separated they are allowed to be partners together,

I agree, OP

and I can’t help but remember one of the other things to come out of their affair

while Hancock was health secretary and shagging her, her brother’s new company was being awarded NHS outsourcing contracts

just grim

news.sky.com/story/amp/matt-hancock-affair-aide-gina-coladangelos-relative-has-top-job-at-company-with-nhs-contracts-12341789

I totally agree with you op!

Of course these things happen but it's deeply insensitive to put his wife and children back under the spotlight by taking part in this programme in the first place so soon after the split.

His wife (ex wife?) is by all accounts suffering from long Covid, she probably was just coming to terms with the split (which she found out about in shocking circumstances owing to a tabloid exposé remember). And their DCs lives, having been shattered, were probably just settling back in to some sort of routine and anonymity at school when he chooses to put the focus back on himself and his mistress again? You can imagine the comments from the DC's classmates! Hadn't he already done enough damage?

Totally despicable behaviour on his part if you ask me. Any decent parent worth worth their salt in similar circumstances would have kept their head down and away from press interest and taken some boring city advisory job to earn child support and spared their family more public comment.

@Overgrowngrasslady I disagree. It's highly unlikely both of them are divorced in that space of time and even if they were they blindsided both spouses and have shown zero respect for them or all the children involved in this. I just think they are a pair of publicity hungry pricks 🤷🏻‍♀️

Agree entirely

I found it really distasteful. Describing themselves as partners or whatever when they've both got a wife and a husband.

They’ve been separated from their spouses and together officially for at least 18 months, so whatever your opinion on their circumstances, they are partners.

But that is 10 years ago.

MH is fairly recent, and hugely public.

It must be very hard on his ex wife and their children.

He upended their life, is loved up, launching a new career, making money, public forgiveness, 5 star holiday in Aus.

Surely it would grate with you - even a little bit?

I think he could and his new partner could be a little more discrete.

TheFormidableMrsC they could well be divorced by now, I left exh in May, had my decree nisi by October & absolute in January, would have been sooner but exh didn't apply for it.

This!

Matt Hancock is distasteful on so many levels. I cannot give more headspace than that to him.

Totally agree with Anniesnap. Those poor children-utterly humiliating.

Bloody hell that link tenbob - that's shocking!

And I cannot believe that people think eighteen months is sufficient time to recover from a bombshell like this and that after that time, everyone just miraculously recovers and gets on with their lives! He and his wife (former wife?) were married for fifteen years; she thought they were happily married by all accounts.

And that's when the ending has come between two private individuals and only their family, friends and immediate social circle and colleagues may know.

Martha Hancock had to endure the shock and humiliation of public exposure, the paps outside of her house, her picture appearing in the papers and footage of herself on the evening news. I don't think anyone gets over that trauma easily or quickly, in addition to trying to come to terms with the fact that someone you thought was your best friend, lover and confidente and fellow parent, has rejected you in favour of another woman. And being left to deal with the fallout from the perspective of their three DC.

I don't think eighteen months comes close to handling that. More like five years to a decade!

I am more concerned about what he did as Health Minister and the mishandling of the Covid crisis (dodgy PPE contracts, care homes scandal) and the lack of an independent inquiry into the whole thing so that the government at the time can face the consequences of their actions.

His private life, dodgy as it is, is not really the main issue.

It's cruel him snogging his now partner ex affair partner on live TV on the bridge. He could have been more discreet to save at least his children's feelings. I get he probably just wants to move on but he should at least think of his kids. 18 months is still relatively new.

I didn't actually watch IACGMOOH, but I saw the reunion, as I was at a place where it was on and I did think it was not great having the ex OW there.

I was thinking how his kids would have felt if they saw that.

Why are people so over invested in Hancock’s love life? Unfortunately numerous people have affairs. Half the Royal family are or have been at it. Let those involved sort it out amongst themselves and move on!

He has don Who Dares Wins. I just wonder what TV series is next, Strictly maybe?

And I wouldn’t have been a dick about it 18 months on. Because actually she had a really shot first marriage with what turned out to be a prick husband. I’m not one to judge on other people’s marriage that includes MH. I know we’ve convinced ourselves his affairs are our business but they really arent

Likes him in the jungle. Outside of it he's a pig and is Gina whatever. Poor ex wife who has to look after their 3 kids and the poor kids too.

Was he meant to be greeted by his ex wife or something?

He's moved on.
His wife's moved on.
Maybe MN should too.
People split up and get new partners. Are they supposed to live in purdah for the rest of their lives?

Erm they all kiss wives, girlfriend, husbands, boyfriends on the bridge what he did was no different to anyone else who left. They are a couple now so if they want to kiss being reunited they can he's separated from his wife. Lots of people start relationships as an affair, he isn't the first or the last. Unless you are his wife I'm not sure why you'd be bothered?

I think it's time to get over this and move on, he's just a person.