Gino D'Acampo admitted his behaviour was 'dangerous' before misconduct allegations

TV cook Gino D'Acampo admitted his behaviour was 'dangerous' earlier the intersexual misconduct claims against him emerged this week

Gino D’Acampo admitted his behaviour was “dangerous” earlier allegations of sexually inappropriate behaviour flooded successful against him this week.

The TV chef, 48, said helium had been walking a “fine line”, but could “get distant with things” due to the fact that of his property and Italian accent. Gino, champion known for appearances connected This Morning and Celebrity Juice, is facing dozens of allegations dating backmost 12 years. More than 40 radical claimed successful an ITV News probe they had seen oregon experienced inappropriate behaviour by the star.

And present bullish comments helium made successful 2022 person travel backmost to haunt him. Asked astir swearing and dropping innuendos connected prime-time shows, Gino conceded: “There is simply a good enactment connected tv and I’ve been walking that enactment for the past 10 to 15 years.

“It’s precise unsafe the mode I bash it. But I tin get distant with it, with my accent and due to the fact that I’m Gino and everybody knows maine for a agelong time. There is this cancel culture, which everybody’s freaking retired about,” helium told the Sun. Instead of warring the cancel culture, they should bash what I do. I don’t attraction what those radical say.”

Gino echoed the aforesaid sentiments successful different interview, but insisted helium meant nary harm. He told Closer magazine: “We’re surviving successful an epoch present wherever you person to beryllium truly cautious with what you say, but I can’t bash that. Everyone knows I mean well… I don’t mean it with maliciousness.”

Dad-of-three Gino, who joined woman Jessica successful 2002, added: “I’m going to transportation connected the mode I person been for the past 24 years and if the clip comes erstwhile it’s my clip to go, past it’s my clip to go.” The prima is alleged to person made crude, intersexual comments to colleagues that near them distressed and upset.

But successful a connection to ITV News, Gino “firmly denied” the allegations and his ineligible squad said helium did not recognise the incidents. One pistillate who complained said: “He could person travel retired and said helium was sorry. It is classical bully behaviour.” Another branded his “blanket denial” arsenic “disappointing”. Kim Woodburn, who was runner-up erstwhile Gino won I’m A Celebrity successful 2009, was among the women to talk retired against him.

The 82-year-old claimed helium had touched himself and made comments astir being deprived of enactment successful the jungle, which made her consciousness “uncomfortable”. Clips showing Gino’s risque behaviour person surfaced, including 1 of him appearing bare and talking astir threesomes connected This Morning.

Another of his shows, Gordon, Gino and Fred’s Road Trip – filmed with chap cook Gordon Ramsay and First Dates prima Fred Sirieix – came to an abrupt extremity amid a fall-out successful 2022. All of Gino’s ITV shows person present been removed from its schedule.

ITV said it did not cognize astir “most” of the complaints, but it had acted erstwhile issues were raised and would “now beryllium pursuing up connected those not antecedently reported”.

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