True. Allegedly.
In the lunatic world of UK law, there is apparently a thing called a “super-injunction”. This allows anyone with enough cash to stop media publication of things that they did which they wish to keep secret.
Such a person was Ryan Giggs, who I understand is a footballer. Presumably without the knowledge of his wife, he embarked upon a seven month affair with Imogen Thomas who appeared briefly in a reality show and is therefore “famous”.
When details of his infidelity became known, Giggs paid large sums of cash for a super-injunction to stifle the media. This worked for a while, until someone on Twitter broke the silence:
Personally, I couldn’t care less what a footballer does to a reality star (unless there is a video available); but I don’t like the idea of a judge in the UK slapping a global ban on reporting of such news just because the footballer has the cash to pay for it. I also don’t like the fact that Mr. Giggs has decided to try and sue Twitter for breaking the injunction.
So I’m breaking the injunction too. Come sue me Giggs.
Excuse me, got to cut this short; there’s a knock at the door……
Comments 🔗
2011-05-23| Pete saysBravo, MP John Hemming
2011-05-23| genuinej saysMy God! It’s amazing that once YOU revealed the identity of whoever it was that was shagging Imogen Thomas the whole world fell into line. The British Parliament, The Sun newspaper (using the widest interpretation of the definition of a newspaper), and even the BBC. I’m staggered by the power that such a small organ as yours possesses. Congratulations. It makes me so proud to be one of your fringe contributors.
2011-05-23| genuinej saysp.s. See you in jail.
2011-05-24| Wally saysYou kindly inform your readers of a snippet of previously unknown scandal and then one of said readers (see above) discloses to the World that you only have a small organ. That’s nice ennit !
2011-05-24| Wally saysPS - You should have got an injuction to stop that becoming common knowledge
2011-05-24| Billy the Brush saysFear not, the diminutive nature of Spike’s organ was common knowledge to all the girls in the office more than thirty years ago … like a willie but smaller was one comment I heard more than once …
Even the English judiciary would refuse a super injunction to which a claim of common knowledge is a valid objection ….
2011-05-25| genuinej saysIt now appears that RG loves Manchester, but occasionally he does Miss Wales.