Well, Matt Hancock has become a walking meme again. This time because he's appearing on this year's Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins - and banking £45,000 in the process.
His latest stint on the Channel 4 show follows his 2021 appearance on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here, which he took part in after withdrawing from the race for chairmanship of the Treasury select committee.
Unsurprisingly, within minutes of the I'm A Celeb announcement, he was suspended. An MP not being available to help constituents or represent them in Parliament while Government is in session because he's eating kangaroo testicles in the Australian outback is, obviously, unacceptable as far as annual leave requests go.
Ever since he stepped down as an MP and left Westminster in December 2021, Matt Hancock has been trying to carve out a new role for himself in public life – with his 80-hour shift on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins proving to be his "toughest mental and physical" challenge yet. The 44-year-old added: "After coming through the most challenging period as health secretary during the pandemic, I wanted to push my limits. It's safe to say the course tested my resilience."
And, as Matt Hancock once again dominates headlines, everyone is looking back at his marriage to his ex-wife Martha Hancock and his scandalous affair with Gina Coladangelo. Here's everything you need to know...
In June 2021, social media exploded as the nation woke up to find a picture of Health Secretary Matt Hancock snogging a woman who was not his wife on the front page of The Sun. In many ways, it was an old school political scandal, something that we were far more used to seeing in the Nineties. Many people, therefore, rolled their eyes, dismissing the story as silly and unimportant, pointing out that Matt Hancock's woeful performance and horrendous failings as Health Secretary should be making front page news.
But the sex scandal and his role in letting this country down time after time were seemingly completely connected. It wasn't a private affair that Matt quietly enjoyed during dirty weekends away or long lunch afternoon delights in a nearby Holiday Inn. The nature of the affair showed Matt's disregard for proper hiring channels and social distancing measures.
As a result, he resigned, writing in his resignation letter: 'We have worked so hard as a country to fight the pandemic. The last thing I would want is for my private life to distract attention from the single-minded focus that is leading us out of this crisis. I want to reiterate my apology for breaking the guidance, and apologise to my family and loved ones for putting them through this. I also need [to] be with my children at this time.'
A day later, the story took another turn as Hancock officially left his wife for the aide he was caught kissing. And, obviously, interest immediately exploded around the woman left heartbroken (although it must be noted, not dead) by Matt's actions. It's a tale as old as time: the cheating politician causing the scandal but the women left in it's wake subject to most of the scrutiny.
Matt Hancock wife - Who is Martha Hancock?
As in any political scandal of this nature, we saw the traditional photographs of Matt's wife Martha leaving the house on after the affair was publicised. She was still wearing a wedding ring, and was described as 'humiliated'.
The couple lived together with their three children between a Suffolk home, where Matt's constituency is, and a £4.5m house in London.
They were married for 15 years, and according to The Mirror, Martha had believed they were in 'a happy and stable' marriage before the scandal broke. According to sources, Matt told her there and then that he was leaving her, before reportedly waking their eight-year-old child to say goodbye. He then was conveniently able to head to his second home, while Martha and the children continue to live in London where her Osteopathy clinic, believed to be in Notting Hill, is based.
Like her former husband, Martha comes from a well-to-do family; her grandfather was Frederick Miller, a British diplomat who served as Ambassador to West Germany in the Fifties.
Matt Hancock kids
I'm a Celeb fans have seen Matt gush about his kids more than once on the show. He has three; two sons and a daughter, with one of them reportedly adopted. The pair have successfully managed to keep their children well out of the public eye, with reports suggesting they're banned from using social media.
In 2013, when his youngest child was born, Matt was vocal about supporting flexible paternity leave, delaying his own until parliament was in recess to maximise time with his newborn.
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