Gino D’Acampo’s most shocking moments…from creepy Loose Women kiss to tense strop at This Morning staff as ITV drop him

GINO D’Acampo has built a TV vocation connected being unpredictable and utterly unfiltered - but now, the Italian cook is making headlines for each the incorrect reasons.

Known for his risqué jokes and full disregard for governmental correctness, Gino has often near audiences cringing oregon downright shocked with his antics.

Now helium is facing superior allegations of inappropriate and intimidating behaviour spanning implicit 15 years.

An probe by ITV News has uncovered claims from aggregate individuals who person worked with him, alleging instances of sexually explicit comments and assertive behaviour dating backmost to 2011. 

Now ITV person chopped each ties with their Italian star, ditching 2 episodes of Gino's Italy: Secrets of the South this play and pulling immoderate plans for much Family Fortunes.

Specific accusations see making lewd remarks, specified arsenic telling a workfellow helium felt similar having enactment that greeting and engaging successful intimidating actions towards accumulation staff.

One woman, who has been called Hannah to support her identity, told ITV News Correspondent Sejal Karia the TV cook made inappropriate intersexual comments to her connected a occupation successful 2011.

She alleged helium told her helium would "like to crook maine implicit and f*** maine up the a*** against the room counter".

One idiosyncratic recounted an incidental wherever helium allegedly threatened a runner, saying: "If you don’t get maine a Cornetto I volition f*** your girlfriend."

In response, Gino has firmly denied each allegations, describing them arsenic "deeply upsetting" and inconsistent with his character.

He stated that helium was unaware of these complaints until helium was approached by the media and emphasised his long-standing affirmative relationships wrong the industry.

From his outrageous comments astir Holly Willoughby’s backstage parts to his on-air rant astatine an ITV staff, we look astatine the times Gino went mode excessively far.

Holly Willoughby comment

Back successful 2021, Gino shocked fans erstwhile helium made crude remarks astir This Morning big Holly Willoughby's body.

While talking astir his autochthonal country, Italy, helium utilized Holly's assemblage arsenic a stand-in map.

He told her: "If your belly fastener is Rome... well, I was calved successful Naples but I went to schoolhouse wherever the Vesuvius is, truthful it's much inland."

"So I tin technically accidental that I spent my younker grooming and playing astir your vagina."

Shocked by his comment, Holly gasped and said: "Oh my God." Holly's co-host Phillip Schofield shouted, "Oh my God, Gino."

An unremorseful Gino appeared to treble down, shrugged, and said: "There's thing incorrect with that."

Viewers astatine location were arsenic shocked with 1 tweeting: "It isn't what helium said its the information that it was deemed good to accidental it to Holly unrecorded connected the tv.

"Talk astir vaginas each you privation but don't marque it idiosyncratic to a joined pistillate who is trying to bash her job. It's not comic and it's not clever."

Women's time jibe

In March 2022, This Morning aired a conception with Gino during International Women's Day.

Gino was fixed clip for his Ask Gino feature, wherever viewers would telephone successful to inquire the cook for proposal astir anything.

But helium received swift backlash from fans erstwhile helium appeared to trim the time to women looking for men.

He said: "People astatine location you tin inquire maine thing you want. Today it is seemingly International Women's Day.

"So what I realised down present successful the bureau is this woman present is looking for a husband. Everybody is looking for a husband.

"Are you looking for a husband? Ah no, you said you were looking to person an affair. So it looks similar down present successful the bureau everybody is looking for a husband."

Social media users made their feelings known arsenic they descended connected him for the comments.

One blasted: "How did Gino marque #InternationalWomensDay astir women needing a man?"

Another said: "Gino connected #ThisMorning “joking” astir however each women privation is simply a hubby there. On #IWD. I’m tired."

Creepy kiss

In October 2016, Gino caused yet different disturbance erstwhile helium visited Loose Women arsenic a guest. 

While there, his interrogation was filled with intersexual innuendos. At 1 point, helium adjacent said helium wanted to “unleash himself”. 

But the biggest daze of each came erstwhile the joined father-of-three went into the assemblage and planted a buss connected a random woman’s lips. 

Before his quality connected the show, helium stripped off, laid successful a sofa and bizarrely stroked a photograph of Coleen Nolan saying: “I miss her.” 

'Racism' row

In a November 2022 occurrence of This Morning, Gino erstwhile again enactment his ft successful it erstwhile helium made a remark perceived arsenic "racist" by immoderate societal media users.

He was connected the amusement to to connection proposal to viewers and to marque an Italian chickenhearted cordon bleu.

Despite the information that the crockery is known arsenic a French meal, helium insisted it was not and proceeded to spell connected a rant against France.

"Not that I person to explicate myself - but this is called pollo impanato, which is stuffed chickenhearted breast", helium said. "Now the French telephone it blah blah blah but it’s truly pollo impanato.

"Plus everybody knows I volition ne'er navigator a French dish. I don’t similar to navigator different nations' food.

"I americium going to beryllium honorable with you, isolated from my person Fred Sirieix, I don’t similar French people."

As Phillip and Holly watched him successful shock, helium continued: "Too adjacent to Italy, they ever deliberation everything they bash is the greatest. There is nary request for French radical successful the world."

The hosts rapidly apologised for the comments and said his opinions are his ain but viewers astatine location were successful nary temper to forgive.

One tweeted: "I was horrified that Gino was allowed to accidental helium doesn’t similar French people, adjacent much horrified that Holly & Philip laughed it off. Disgusting racists."

A 2nd added: "Just ideate the outrage if Gino Decampo said, I don't similar Pakistani people, oregon I don't similar African people, helium would (rightly) beryllium branded a racist. But it's perfectly OK to accidental I don't similar French people."

Studio strop

In 2018, Phil and Holly had to travel to the defence of a This Morning unit subordinate aft Gino had a spell astatine her.

It each started erstwhile helium was heard shouting astatine idiosyncratic arsenic the amusement came backmost connected aerial aft an advertisement break.

Holly looked visibly uncomfortable and said to viewers: "Welcome back, Gino's kicking off..."

In an effort to diffuse the situation, she turned to him and appealed: "Gino, Gino, Gino - it's Monday, relax. It's snowy."

But Gino, who was inactive intelligibly upset responded: "It's this lady, she tells you each the time, enactment here, enactment there." Phil past told him to "stop being a diva".

Holly besides tried to explicate wherefore the unit subordinate was telling him wherever to basal saying: "It's conscionable the rules of the studio, calm down." But a bemused Gino retorted: "Rules of the studio? When person we had rules successful the studio?"

Hitting back, Phil said: "There person ever been rules, you've conscionable ne'er listened."

Cousin enactment comment

Gino has ever been known to marque cheeky innuendos but connected an occurrence of Celebrity Juice, fans were convinced helium had gone excessively far.

While appearing arsenic a panellist alongside Holly and the precocious Caroline Flack, Keith Lemon asked if helium had ever licked thing disconnected a woman's body.

That was erstwhile helium chose to uncover that helium had been intimate with a pistillate cousin.

He said: "I was young. She said the Nutella tasted amended 'down there', but it was a trick."

As his chap panellists looked connected successful shock, comedian Jimmy Carr, who was besides connected the amusement told him: "Your deficiency of shame is astir amazing."

Although helium aboriginal claimed helium was lone joking, helium has ne'er been capable to unrecorded the communicative down.

Nose remark

On an occurrence of Celebrity Juice, Gino dropped jaws erstwhile helium made a sexually charged remark astir Fearne Cotton. 

After the erstwhile Radio 1 Chart Show presenter’s look was shown connected the surface broadside by broadside alongside a pizza, Gino told her: “I person a mentation - and I’m sorry, you cognize however overmuch I similar you right?

“But I deliberation erstwhile you person large nostrils, I deliberation you tin s**k arsenic f**k.” As the assemblage roared with astonishment and laughter, Fearne's rima was wide unfastened successful disbelief. 

Gino past tried to explicate his mentation saying: “Because you tin respire easier”. But Fearne stopped him mid-sentence saying: “You don’t request to elaborate.” 

Even amusement big Keith Lemon, who has said immoderate of the astir outrageous things connected TV, appeared shocked by the comment. 

Gino aboriginal reassured Fearne that his comments were a “compliment” to which Fearne sarcastically replied: “Thank you”.