Gino D'Acampo boasted about living 'single life' before 'sexual misconduct' allegations

Celebrity cook Gino D'Acampo has travel nether occurrence aft "dozens" of radical raised concerns astir alleged "sexually inappropriate" behaviour from the TV prima - which helium has firmly denied

Gino D'Acampo has precocious travel nether occurrence pursuing allegations of intersexual misconduct and intimidating behaviour spanning implicit a decade. Dozens of radical person elaborate experiences described variously arsenic "unacceptable," "distressing" and "horrendous" portion moving with him.

Prior to these allegations, Gino, who was erstwhile crowned King of the Jungle, had openly discussed the dynamics of his 22-year marriage to Jessica Morrison. Speaking to OK! Magazine, Gino discussed the value of spending clip apart.

The cook said helium often lives "the azygous life" portion moving distant from home. He mentioned that during these periods, helium and his woman would pass for lone "20 minutes a day," suggesting that this distance contributed to the spot of their relationship.

He added: "There is simply a clip wherever the household is together, erstwhile I’m with my woman and everybody to observe holidays and everything similar that. But determination has to besides beryllium a clip erstwhile I bash things by myself and erstwhile she does things by herself.

"So, we instrumentality a batch of holidays by ourselves with our ain friends, separately. We person a batch of dinners and lunches with our friends. It’s important to person your ain life. You can’t beryllium portion of a couple’s beingness if you don’t person your own."

Gino met Jessica erstwhile helium was 18 and moving astatine Sylvester Stallone’s Mambo King edifice successful Marbella, wherever she was a waitress. The mates joined 7 years later. Gino says that seeing little of each different means determination is much to sermon erstwhile they are reunited.

“I tin beryllium distant for a period and I volition speech to my woman erstwhile a week for astir 20 minutes. Then, erstwhile I travel back, we tin speech astir it all,” helium says. "Some of my friends speech with their wives for an hr and I’m thinking, ‘What the hellhole are you going to accidental to your woman each time for an hr that you can’t accidental erstwhile you’re successful person?’”

The TV cook - who has appeared connected the likes of ITV's Family Fortunes and Gino and Fred: Emission Impossible - faces accusations dating backmost implicit 10 years. Individuals are said to person been fearful of immoderate consequences if they ever spoke of their alleged encounters with the 48-year-old.

Gino has "firmly denied" the allegations made by "dozens" of people", adding that they were "deeply upsetting". One woman, who has been named arsenic Hannah to support her identity, has claimed she was connected the receiving extremity of vulgar comments from Gino successful 2011.

She claims Gino said helium would "like to crook maine implicit and f*** maine up the a*** against the room counter." The pistillate claims that determination were laughs from unit members aft helium made the comment. But she says she saw the "shock" and "horror", claiming his alleged behaviour made her consciousness "very, very, precise small."

Speaking to ITV News Correspondent Sejal Karia, Hannah added: "I decidedly saw it arsenic immoderate benignant of powerfulness play. The precise enactment of what helium said was aggressive. He did not deliberation that was an inappropriate happening to accidental to me."

In response, Gino's ineligible representatives told the outlet: "This allegation from astir 15 years agone has never, until present via a media petition for comment, been raised oregon enactment to Mr D'Acampo. He does not callback it, nor judge that this happened. Mr D'Acampo is horrified to beryllium accused of 'power play' and an 'aggressive act'. He emphatically and unequivocally denies these allegations."

In effect to each allegations, Gino told ITV News: "I person been told by ITN quality that allegations person been made astir maine acting inappropriately, immoderate dating backmost implicit 10 years ago. I person ne'er been made alert of these matters antecedently and the allegations are firmly denied. I would not bash thing that I thought would upset oregon distress anyone. This is simply not successful my nature. I bash not recognise the mentation of events being enactment to me.

"Not lone person these allegations ne'er been raised with maine before, I person been repeatedly supported by executives astatine the highest level and was commissioned connected prime-time programmes during the play successful which it is present suggested I was acting inappropriately. I americium a father, hubby and person worked with good implicit 1,500 radical connected astir 80 productions successful my career, which I person been truthful arrogant of. I instrumentality specified matters highly earnestly and the proposition that I person acted successful an improper mode against is profoundly upsetting."