GOOD Morning Britain's Kate Garraway got a text live on air today as co-host Ben Shephard quipped "is it Matt Hancock?"

The presenters mocked the Health Secretary after The Sun exposed his secret affair.

We revealed he cheated on his wife with his closest aide Gina Coladangelo, 43.

Married Matt and the millionaire lobbyist were caught in a passionate clinch in The Sun's exclusive photos after heading outside their Whitehall office for a quick snog.

As GMB teased ahead to an interview with Love Island stars Jack Fincham and Amy Hart today, producers played viewers the reality TV show's text message sound as Kate held a mobile phone, prompting Ben to tease: "Matt Hancock?"

And Kate replied: "Not Matt Hancock, not Grant Shapps either!"

Ben and Kate had just grilled Tory MP Grant Shapps on Hancock's affair asking if he had spoken to the Health Secretary and would it could cost him his job.

Kate asked: "I am sure you're going to say it's an entirely personal matter and not comment on it, but he is in a very important position, and you must have to talk to him all the time about decisions you're making.

"Have you made contact with him this morning? Have you tried to discuss how this might affect, even just the allegations, his ability to do the job?" she asked.

Mr Shapps said: "As you rightly say, it is a personal matter, people have personal relations and it's not my job to comment on their personal life, the job I am interested in is the job done as Health Secretary."

He continued to swerve the kiss and applauded his colleague for his work on the vaccination programme.

"This is what the Health Secretary is responsible for, I can answer for those things, but his private life…" he added.

Kate replied: "I wouldn't ask you to answer for his private life, obviously, that is for Mr Hancock to if he feels he wants to and is in a position to.

"But he is the Health Secretary, and it's not just personal is it? Because there are implications of rules being broken, there are implications of distraction, if he is doing his job, and the turmoil and the trust it creates.

"Yesterday we were talking about how the Queen had empathy for him, and was commenting on his ability to do the job in a rather rosy light, today this.

"Do you have some personal sympathy for him if nothing else?" she asked.

Mr Shapps replied: "Look, he has obviously been working incredibly hard and we have seen the results in things like the vaccination programme…. the Health Secretary and his team have been working very hard."

"His team are going to be very distracted by this today, aren't they?" asked Kate.

"And that is going to be a problem, isn't it?"

Ben waded in and asked: "Does he have your full confidence?"

Mr Shapps insisted again the vaccine rollout had been a success.

He said: "He's been doing a terrific job, it's a matter for him and personal relationships are outside of my remit."

Ben asked: "Do you think he can survive this?"

"I think he has been doing a great job, there is no reason why he shouldn't carry on, he has been helping a lot of people vaccinated," said Mr Shapps.

"I think we have moved into a world where we can separate the private and the public when it comes to people's personal lives, that's for them to talk about and not for someone else to comment on."

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