I’ve said this before on here somewhere - but when Gino was on I’m a Celeb, he and another camp mate killed one of the (tame) rats they have on set and ate it. The Australian authorities were looking into animal cruelty charges and it was swiftly covered up. I remember because I had seen headlines online very late at night when this news broke, including in the Australian press, which had completely disappeared by the morning. I think he went on to win that series. ITV will bend over backwards to get the result they want when they have someone lined up for TV projects.
I think he fell out with Gordon Ramsey over that incident where Gino had brought cannabis onto a flight in his luggage - I believe it was a private flight organised by Ramsey, so Ramsey himself could have got into a lot of trouble over that, which would piss anyone off.
Anyway, I’ve never been able to stand him or his fake “comedy Italian” act. Burgling someone’s house is not something you can write off as a youthful mistake IMO, it takes a special breed of scumbag to do that.
However I did think he’d already effectively been ditched from ITV - weren’t there some reports a year or two ago about his sleazy behaviour?