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‘Threesome’: PM publicly dumps boyfriend

They are splitting up following a 10-year relationship after lewd comments were aired on prime time television to the entire nation.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced on Friday local time she was separating from her partner, with whom she has a daughter, after he was recorded making sleazy comments.

The announcement came after Andrea Giambruno, a television presenter, was caught making overtly sexual and sexist comments to female colleagues off-air.

“My relationship with Andrea Giambruno, which lasted almost 10 years, ends here,” Meloni wrote on social media, saying their paths had “diverged for some time”.

“How do you do, darling?” Mr Giambruno is heard telling a female colleague on the sidelines of his talk show on the Rete 4 channel, owned by Mediaset.

“Do you know that (name redacted) and I are having an affair? All of Mediaset knows it and now you do too,” he tells the woman, who is also off camera

“But we‘re looking for a third person, as we do threesomes. Foursomes too. Would you like to be part of our working group?” he says in remarks broadcast by a different television channel on Tuesday and Thursday.

In another comment, he says: “Can I touch my balls while I talk to you?”
 

Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni dumped her partner Andrea Giambruno after he was exposed to be cheating on her and making lewd comments to colleagues. Picture by Andreas Solaro / AFP
Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni dumped her partner Andrea Giambruno after he was exposed to be cheating on her and making lewd comments to colleagues. Picture by Andreas Solaro / AFP
 

On Friday afternoon, a spokesman for Mediaset, which is owned by the Berlusconi family, told the ANSA news agency Mr Giambruno had been suspended as a presenter while the company looked into the situation.

The news of the break-up coincides with the one-year anniversary this weekend of Ms Meloni‘s accession to power at the head of a hard-right government which strongly defends traditional family values.

The pair never married but Ms Meloni always brushed off suggestions that her marital status was at odds with her position on family, which is that children should have a mother and a father.

Mr Giambruno, who she met in a broadcast studio while giving an interview, has increasingly become a source of headlines for his controversial comments.
 

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been in power for one year. Picture: Ludovic Marin / AFP
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been in power for one year. Picture: Ludovic Marin / AFP


 
Andrea Giambruno, in the centre, the partner of Italy's new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, with their daughter attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new Italian Government at the Quirinal Palace in Rome on October 22, 2022. Picture: Fabio Frustaci / ANSA / AFP
Andrea Giambruno, in the centre, the partner of Italy's new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, with their daughter attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new Italian Government at the Quirinal Palace in Rome on October 22, 2022. Picture: Fabio Frustaci / ANSA / AFP
 

In August, Mr Giambruno was accused of victim blaming for remarks he made while discussing two gang rapes this summer that had shocked Italy.

On his talk show, he said: “If you avoid getting drunk and losing your senses, you might also avoid running into certain problems and coming across a wolf.”

He had also hit back when a German minister on holiday in Italy complained about the heat, saying: “If you don‘t like it, stay at home.”

In her social media post on Friday, Ms Meloni thanked Mr Giambruno for “the splendid years we spent together, for the difficulties we went through and for giving me the most important thing in my life, our daughter Ginevra”.

Meloni has previously spoken of the challenges of juggling family life with running the government, and takes Ginevra, seven, on official trips wherever she can.

She did not mention the recordings of Mr Giambruno‘s remarks in her statement.

But she warned anyone who hoped to use her personal life against her: “While the drop may hope to hollow out the stone, the stone remains a stone and the drop is just water”.

Ms Meloni‘s coalition allies rallied around her. Matteo Salvini, of the far-right, anti-immigration League, told her: “Go forward with your head held high!”

Author: Editors Desk

Source: News Corp Australia Network:

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