Imogen Thomas fails in bid to lift gagging order

Former Big Brother contestant and the Sun fail to overturn injunction taken out by Premier League footballer • Read the judgment in full Imogen Thomas, the former Big Brother contestant whose relationship with a married Premier League footballer was made the subject of a court gagging order, has failed in a joint bid with the Sun to overturn the injunction. Thomas said on Monday she was “stunned” following the high court judgment by Mr Justice Eady and claimed there was “something seriously wrong with the law”. “Yet again my name and reputation have been trashed while the man I had a relationship with is able to hide,” said Thomas, speaking outside the high court. “What’s more I can’t even defend myself because I have been gagged. If this is the way privacy injunctions are supposed to work there is something seriously wrong with the law. “I have read the judgment and I am stunned by how I am portrayed.” Thomas was speaking after Eady explained why he made an order banning journalists from reporting the identity of a footballer involved in a relationship with the reality television contestant. He also issued a written account of his reasons for making the order after listening to arguments from lawyers representing the footballer, Thomas and the Sun newspaper at a private hearing.

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