You're more likely to be see them around Notting Hill though.

Totally agree. I was a fan of his. Very nice guy. Very sad ending. Suicide is the last resort for people and they die heart broken. I will never forgive myself, if anyone close to me commits suicide. You want to know whether more could have been done.
That is the reason I have mixed feelings about the injunction.

I hadn't actually read the full review when I posted, but The Sun have played a blinder as it's hilarious.

It did seem odd. She claimed to have slept in the car as I understand it which I presume would have been pretty cold at that time of year and he'd locked her out of the house.

I heard it was a threesome. Paddington didn't get his sticky paws from eating marmalade sandwiches.

BIB Both Gareth Thomas and Keegan Hirst considered suicide before coming out. I remember Gareth Thomas saying he thought about it all the time. It must be unbearably lonely to be surrounded by so many teammates/friends and feel you have no other choice than to keep quiet and be something you're not.

★BIB To protect her husband from being gossiped about in the papers? To protect her two sons? They'd just lost their father to suicide; isn't that enough for them to cope with without the reasons of why he did it printed everywhere too? Maybe someone wanted to sell their story and the injunction is to stop that? No end of reasons really.

Interestly, there have been quite a few players of his era, including one of his close friends who've since apologised for using homophobic language either on the pitch or in the changing rooms etc. Was that because they felt guilty? Maybe so.

Also, about the rumours of his wife possibly having an affair with one of his teammates. That teammate is currently in a very comfortable job in one of the dead player's former clubs (the one I believe he was an actual fan of). If that teammate had had a long term affair and possibly fathered a child with this dead player's wife (and we are to believe that this affair drove him to despair and death), would that 'teammate' be so welcome in football, and especially at that club, now? When you take into account how popular the dead player was, and still is, with former and current players, I don't believe he would be. Just look at the treatment John Terry got from other players for having a short fling with a teammate's girlfriend.

Just noticed that Gareth Thomas, Keegan Hirst and the dead player all married their childhood sweethearts. Doesn't mean anything, but it's another similarity between the three.

I'm going on now, but just remembered Ian Thorpe. Another sportsman who went to hell and back agonising over his sexuality.

Similar reviews in The Times and Telegraph

Disagree, wrong how people in other places can read it but not in the UK. Privacy via the back door. You don't need to buy the paper if you are not interested in the story, all about choice.

People must be interested as there are enough posts on here about it!

If it is true, Helen Wood should be able to tell her side of the story. If it is not true, he can use the libel courts to sue. She should have the right to tell her side and not be gagged.

? The right to drag her talentless self out of the obscurity she's sunk back into to get herself a bit of tabloid press and cash in exchange for details of her sleazy lowlife? In any case, she got paid at the time for her services. She has no right to anything more.

I'm glad the injunction is in place. I couldn't care less about the guy involved but I see absolutely no reason for him and his family to have to publicly relive what I'm pretty sure he feels was a huge mistake. The only person he's ever owed anything to is his family.

If you think muck raking for the sake of it by tabloids over actors whilst they sit on stories of a Minister (who had control over decisions affecting the very same media ) having relationships with a prostitute ( more than one actually the press are still sitting on a lot ) and who was behaving in a questionable manner over matters of state is ok then that is of course an opinion you are entitled to, my opinion is that it is time the newspapers concentrated a bit more on actual news rather than behaving like some tittle tattle comics.

I mean where is the actual public interest ( and I do not mean salacious gossip interest ) in an actor having something shoved up his bottom ? Lets not forget he did nothing illegal whilst the same press have not reported people such as Savile in the past ?

More than likely only felt it was a mistake when he got caught with his trousers down.

Feel very sorry for his wife and child, tho. They now know their husband/father is a major scum ball.

I'm sure his wife will have known about it before this since most of the rest of us knew about it when the story originally broke back in 2011. But all the more reason for it to die a death now and not (a) cause any more upset to them - the child in particular - and (b) give oxygen and media opps to the pondlife that is that awful woman.

Prurience at its best. Accompanied very likely, on the part of those who cite freedom of info in their demand to know the details, by a lack of a sex life and a need to live vicariously through those who have one - the more salacious the better!

Or, more sadly, a need to bring people down.

Wife storming out after an argument and sleeping in the car???. It does not add up with the above theory.

LG is such a likeable guy, however he must bear 🐻 responsibility for his actions.

Escort agencies can be a minefield for celebrities, what are the chances that Helen Wood landed a top footballer and a world recognised actor?? Has she had other VIPs we must wonder?

By that argument I suppose you think the Ryan Giggs story should never have come out either, the Wayne Rooney 'auld slapper' story, Charlie Sheen HIV, John Terry / Wayne Bridge, numerous cheating politician's.

They could be classed as mistakes and why should their family re-live them. People like gossip, the numerous posts on this very thread confirm so.

I would rather support the right of freedom of speech / press than a story being stopped from being published in the UK, but available elsewhere to read.

I don't like Helen Wood but I support her right to tell her story. How it can be a private matter when the guy has procured a prostitute via an escorts agency, should have thought of that beforehand. Tough I say. If he was single, maybe, but he is married and in the public eye so is fair game.

Can't beat a bit of muck raking, I love it and so do people on here looking at the posts

The only justification I see for public exposure is where someone is publicly claiming - and earning a living from or in a position of authority because of - something that their private life reavels to be utterly and hypocritically false. Other than that, it's none of my business and not in the public interest.

Your love of gossip and muck-raking is fine but stop using it to justify your and the tabloids' need to bring people down for no reason other than to salivate over the grubby details of their private life.

Let's say the 'affair' happened. If the dead player found out before (earlier in the day, or days/weeks before) and he was in such a state about it (to the point that he would take his own life) why would he and his wife, in such crisis, agree to go to a party like they did that night? Wouldn't you make an excuse to get out of it? I certainly would.

If the dead player found out that very night (after they had arrived home) would a highly competitive sportsman, meekly throw his hands up in defeat and kill himself there and then(with his sons sleeping above), or would he lash out and get in his car to seek out the scumbag who had slept with his wife? Personally I think it would've been the second.

That night the others at the party and the taxi driver, who took them home, said they seemed fine with each other. The player even ended up fully clothed in a swimming pool.
So it sounds like they had an argument after they got home. What about? Well, I obviously don't know. But couples can have arguments about all kinds of things(not just when one of them has had an affair), especially couples who haven't been getting on for a long time.

My theory is this. The player is said to have had clinical depression. Living with someone with that can be hard enough. Throw long-term sexual frustration in to the mix (and someone who is a closed book) and you've got a time bomb on your hands. This man, despite his public image, may have been a total nightmare to live with. If he was extremely unhappy, then she would have been the one to bare the brunt. Her ending up in the car? Well that could've been a regular occurrence.
So, if he was this desperate and on the edge of tipping over, why did he go to a bloody party? Well, I believe he went because that's what he did. He put on a front (like he'd done for years) and got on with it. And then as soon as he got home, he started to unravel. They argued (probably triggered by him, because by this point, his nerves were shredded) and she stormed off because, quite frankly, she was sick of it.
He probably felt stuck in a loop of misery: he tries his best, he gets frustrated, he takes it out on her, he tries his best again and so on... He can't bring himself to say whats troubling him so it goes on and on. That night he finally accepted that it was never going to end. He lost hope and gave up.


If that 'affair' had happened it would've been a massive scandal. The press would've fought tooth and nail to print it. The dead player's former teammates would've happily fed info to the press just to get back at 'the teammate' that did the dirty on him. And like I said, I do not believe 'the teammate' would be able to carry on in football as if nothing had happened.

I do agree that she was a bit 'vague' that night. But why does that automatically mean that she is protecting herself? I think she's protecting him and their sons.

That's a different injunction

Dammit - I've got tickets to see that play in 2 weeks!

I wonder if there might be a major cast change before then.

I don't know about an affair with that particular teammate, but I do know that her claim to not remember what they argued about doesn't stand up at all; if something like that happened I think you'd remember exactly what your last words to each other were. I also seem to remember - and huge apologies if I'm wrong - that the Geordie ex player asked to speak at the inquest - and said that his friend had been very down about troubles in his marriage but had decided to try and make it work; it was his evidence, which seemed to come from a man who was doing all but pointing a finger, that made me think something was not quite right about the story the wife told.
I'm stopping myself from saying more, because it's not right to put my conjecture out there. As I said earlier, I understand the injunction for his kids' sake but it seems sad if people are looking for secrets he was hiding IF in fact, it wasn't him that was hiding anything.
Sorry for the long post, and sorry if I've offended anyone.

You've not offended me, Yviec. I don't believe that she didn't remember their last words to one another, because as you say you wouldnt forget something like that. Something has never sat right about the whole thing. I'm not suggesting at all that she is too blame for what happened, but I find her vagueness really odd.

I would hope not , if that is what is needed to prompt a job loss then many people should be losing their jobs up and down the country

Why on earth would there be? The lead's "press issues" have been well known for years. I doubt anyone at Chichester gives a damn.

From The Gossip Life:

This B list family that were likely once A list want their own reality show. The parents feel their relevance slowly slipping and have established the children's identities and personalities to the public as a sort of pre-show preparation. They had a show once and it failed. They're determined for this to work.