On the evening of 25 June 2021, former Health Secretary Matt Hancock drove to his London home and told his wife of 15 years their marriage was over. He did it face to face, before The Sun published a single word. Martha Hoyer Millar had been recovering from long Covid at the time. She had no idea the affair had been happening. By the following morning, Hancock had resigned from government and two marriages had ended overnight.
Nearly five years on, the question of his marital status still gets asked regularly, and the honest answer is more nuanced than most articles on this topic let on.
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Is Matt Hancock Still Married?
No. Matt Hancock and Martha Hoyer Millar separated in June 2021 and have not reconciled. He has been with Gina Coladangelo since that summer. As of April 2026, they are still together and living together.
Whether Hancock and Martha have finalised a legal divorce has never been publicly confirmed by either party, which remains one of the few genuinely unresolved details in an otherwise very public story.
Who Was Matt Hancock Married To?
Matt Hancock married Martha Hoyer Millar in 2006. The two had met years earlier at Oxford University, both working at the campus radio station, Oxygen FM. She read the news. He covered sport. They had three children together: one daughter and two sons, with the youngest born in 2013. The family split their time between Little Thurlow in West Suffolk, where Hancock served as MP, and a home in London.
Martha has always kept a low profile. She trained as an osteopath and is believed to practise in Notting Hill, West London. Her family has notable historical connections: her grandfather was Frederick Millar, 1st Baron Inchyra, a senior British diplomat who served as UK Ambassador to West Germany. Her great-grandfather was the 1st Viscount Camrose, a newspaper tycoon who co-owned The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph.
None of that background prepared her for what happened on 25 June 2021.
How Did Matt Hancock’s Marriage End?
The CCTV footage that ended his career and his marriage had been recorded on 6 May 2021, inside Hancock’s Whitehall office. The images showed him and Gina Coladangelo, a government aide he had personally appointed, in an embrace at a time when social distancing rules were still legally in force across England.
When The Sun told Hancock the footage was going to be published, he drove straight to the family home. He told Martha the marriage was over before she could read about it elsewhere. He woke their youngest child, then eight years old, to say goodbye. He then left for the Suffolk property.
Martha was recovering from long Covid at the time. She had caught it from Hancock. People close to her told reporters she had considered the marriage to be “happy and stable” and had no knowledge of the affair.
Hancock resigned as Health Secretary the following day, 26 June 2021, acknowledging he had “breached the social distancing guidance.”
Later that summer he returned to the London property to collect the last of his belongings. Martha passed items through the door and did not let him cross the threshold.
Is Matt Hancock Divorced From Martha Hoyer Millar?
This has never been officially confirmed by either side, and that detail matters.
The separation happened in June 2021. Both have lived completely separate lives since. Martha gave the only public indication of her feelings when she liked a post on Twitter reading: “Better to have loved and divorced than be stuck with a [expletive] forever.” She also liked several posts celebrating Boris Johnson’s political collapse.
No court confirmation, no joint statement, and no comment from either party’s legal team has ever been reported in the press. Given the separation happened over four years ago, most observers assume legal proceedings have taken place. The fact that neither side has ever said so publicly is, at this point, a deliberate choice by both.
Who Is Gina Coladangelo?
Gina Coladangelo was born in August 1977 and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University, the same course and year as Hancock. The two first met at Oxygen FM, the same student radio station where Hancock had previously met Martha. Friends from those years later told reporters that Hancock “always had a crush on her.”
Before the 2021 scandal, she had built a serious professional career across PR and communications:
- Co-founder and director at Luther Pendragon, a London-based PR and lobbying firm
- Marketing and communications director at Oliver Bonas, working at her then-husband’s company
- Non-executive director at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) from 2020, in a taxpayer-funded role paying between ยฃ15,000 and ยฃ20,000 per year
That last appointment, which Hancock made without a public process, drew accusations of cronyism. The Department denied it. Gina resigned from the DHSC role after the affair became public.
She had been married twice. Her first marriage was to property lawyer Glynn Gibb. She then married Oliver Tress, founder of Oliver Bonas, in 2009. They had three children together: Talia, Layla, and Bruno. The family lived in a five-bedroom Edwardian house in Wandsworth, south-west London.
On the night the story broke, Gina loaded her belongings into her car outside the Wandsworth home and left while Tress stood and watched. Friends described him as “devastated.” He has never spoken publicly about it.
Gina’s father, Rino Coladangelo, was the chief executive of international pharmaceutical firm Rephine at the time. In March 2023, Gina sold the Wandsworth property to celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay for ยฃ7.5 million.
Are Matt Hancock and Gina Coladangelo Still Together in 2026?
Yes. As of April 2026, they are together and living together.
Hancock confirmed the relationship publicly on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! in November 2022. When campmate Babatunde Aleshe asked whether he was still with Gina, he said: “Am I still with Gina? Yeah, very much so, yeah, totally.”
He finished third that series, behind Jill Scott and Owen Warner. Gina flew to Australia for the finale. On the exit bridge, he was heard telling her: “I love you so much.”
In 2023, Hancock appeared on Channel 4’s Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. During a break in the course, he received a video call from Gina, who called him “my darling.”
Between them, Hancock and Coladangelo have six children from their previous relationships. There has been no public announcement of an engagement or plans to marry.
What Happened to Matt Hancock’s Ex-Wife Martha?
Martha Hoyer Millar has handled the collapse of her marriage with a degree of composure that drew more public admiration than anything Hancock did in the aftermath.
She refused every press approach. She sold nothing to any publication. She gave no interviews. She went back to work as an osteopath in Notting Hill and focused on raising her three children.
The contrast with Hancock’s post-2021 public life, which included I’m A Celebrity, Celebrity SAS, a co-written book on the pandemic, appearances at the Covid Inquiry, and a series of public speaking engagements, is considerable.
Friends describe someone who has no interest in profit from the situation and who made a deliberate decision not to let a scandal she played no part in define her publicly.
Matt Hancock and Martha: Full Timeline
| Date | What Happened |
|---|---|
| Late 1990s | Matt Hancock and Martha Hoyer Millar meet at Oxford University |
| 2006 | Matt and Martha marry |
| 2009 | Gina Coladangelo marries Oliver Tress |
| 2020 | Hancock appoints Gina to DHSC role |
| 6 May 2021 | CCTV footage recorded at Hancock’s Whitehall office |
| 25 June 2021 | The Sun publishes the footage. Hancock tells Martha the marriage is over that evening |
| 26 June 2021 | Hancock resigns as Health Secretary |
| November 2022 | Hancock appears on I’m A Celebrity, publicly confirms relationship with Gina |
| March 2023 | Gina sells Wandsworth home to Gordon Ramsay for ยฃ7.5 million |
| 2023 | Hancock appears on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins |
| May 2024 | Conservative Party whip restored to Hancock by Rishi Sunak |
| July 2024 | Hancock leaves Parliament, does not contest the general election |
| April 2026 | Hancock and Gina remain together, living together |
Matt Hancock is not married to Martha Hoyer Millar. He has been with Gina Coladangelo for nearly five years, and that relationship does not appear to be ending. Whether a legal divorce from Martha has been finalised is the one detail neither side has ever publicly addressed, which after this long, tells its own story. Martha, for her part, has said nothing. That, too, tells you something.
