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Italian tabloid skewered for racy gelato headline

Publication in hot water over photos of politician eating ice cream with sexually suggestive caption.

Popular Italian gossip magazine Chi is facing a flurry of criticism after publishing pictures of a prominent female minister eating ice cream, accompanied by a lewd and sexually suggestive headline.

The article headline read “She knows how to do it with an ice cream” and pictured Public Administration Minister Marianna Madia.