The pair never married but 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. The news of the break-up coincides with the one-year anniversary this weekend of Meloni's accession to power at the head of a hard-right government which strongly defends traditional family values. On Friday afternoon, a spokesman for Mediaset, which is owned by the Berlusconi family, told the ANSA news agency Giambruno had been suspended as a presenter while the company looked into the situation. In another comment, he says: 'Can I touch my balls while I talk to you?' Would you like to be part of our working group?' he says in remarks broadcast by a different television channel on Tuesday and Thursday. 'But we're looking for a third person, as we do threesomes.

'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 'How do you do, darling?' Giambruno is heard telling a female colleague on the sidelines of his talk show on the Rete 4 channel, owned by Mediaset. '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'. The announcement came after Andrea Giambruno, a television presenter, was caught making overtly sexual and sexist comments to female colleagues off-air.

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