In a TV interview Jennifer Arcuri says she warned Boris Johnson to come clean
Daily MailBoris Johnson’s love affair with a pole-dancing US model who was handed thousands of pounds in public money lasted for four years, an explosive TV documentary claims tonight. I’m terribly heartbroken by the way that you have cast me aside like I am some gremlin.’ Ms Arcuri refused to go as far as saying she had an affair with Mr Johnson, telling ITV Exposure: ‘It’s no one’s business if we were in a relationship or not.’ But award-winning veteran journalist John Ware will tell viewers: ‘After many hours of conversation with Ms Arcuri – and confirmation by several sources including those she confided in at the time – I’m left in no doubt they had an affair lasting at least four years.’ The businesswoman, pictured outside Downing Street, has set up base at a grand London hotel a stone’s throw from Downing Street after jetting in from Los Angeles last night Previous reports suggested that their relationship was little more than a fling. In an interview that heaps renewed pressure on the PM in the middle of a General Election campaign, Ms Arcuri says: Her business benefited after she was invited to accompany Mr Johnson on a 2015 trade trip to Israel; She wishes the PM had declared their relationship as a potential conflict of interest to avoid the ‘humiliation’ she has now suffered; She feels ‘disgusted and humiliated’ by Johnson refusing to speak to her and reveals how on one bizarre occasion he handed his mobile phone to an aide who garbled down the line in Chinese. Ms Arcuri refused to go as far as saying she had an affair with Mr Johnson, telling ITV Exposure: ‘It’s no one’s business if we were in a relationship or not.’ Pictured in 2012 In the interview, Ms Arcuri claims Mr Johnson repeatedly refused to take her calls after the scandal broke and that she was ‘the collateral damage that’s left behind.’ She said: ‘He puts his head in the sand and looks the other way. Jennifer Arcuri poses outside Downing Street on Friday morning, bound for a Westminster meeting She says that Johnson was ‘worried’ about questions about their relationship.