Ryan Giggs!!!
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Manchester United's preparations for the Champions League final will be hampered this week after Ryan Giggs was named as the footballer at the centre of the gagging order over his affair with Big Brother star Imogen Thomas.
As United count down to their meeting with Barcelona at Wembley, Giggs was named in the House of Commons by Liberal Democrat MP John Hemmings. He used parliamentary privilege to name the star saying 75,000 people had already outed him on Twitter.
Naming Giggs he added that it would be 'impracticable' to prison everyone on the website who had previously tweeted his identity. Speaker John Bercow immediately leapt out of his seat and rebuked Mr Hemmings in an effort to try and protect the Manchester United player's identity. During an extraordinary afternoon in Parliament, Mr Hemming named the star just minutes after the High Court refused to lift a ban on naming Giggs.
After the event Mr Bercow said sternly: 'Let me just say to the honourable gentleman, I know he's already done it, but occasions such as this are occasions for raising the issues of principle involved, not seeking to flout for whatever purpose.' Following the revelation thousands of people once again took to Twitter to spread word Giggs had finally been outed.
The Prime Minister's spokesman this afternoon refused to comment on individual cases, although David Cameron had earlier admitted to knowing it was Giggs. The Attorney General Dominic Grieve, who would be responsible for any prosecution for contempt, had earlier said during a Parliamentary debate on the injunction issue: 'It is our duty as parliamentarians to uphold the rule of law.'
The row provoked one of the biggest acts of civil disobedience in modern times and David Cameron branded the orders 'unsustainable' and 'unfair'. Giggs had mounted a desperate campaign to keep his name secret, not only taking out an injunction but also threatening to sue Twitter users for leaking his name.
Earlier this afternoon Mr Justice Eady rejected a fresh application by News Group Newspapers to discharge the privacy injunction relating to CTB - the initials used to identify Ryan Giggs to the court - on the basis that to continue it would be 'futile', given recent widespread publicity about his identity.
The judge said: 'It has never been suggested, of course, that there is any legitimate public interest, in the traditional sense, in publishing this information. 'The court's duty remains to try and protect the claimant, and particularly his family, from intrusion and harassment so long as it can.'
Soon after the failed bid to have the injunction lifted, Attorney General Dominic Grieve announced that Mr Cameron would write to MP John Whittingdale to set up a joint committee to study the issue. This morning speaking to ITV1's Daybreak, the Prime Minister indicated that he knew the identity of the footballer 'like everybody else' but stressed that there was no 'simple answer' and ministers needed to take 'some time out'.
Giggs's face was yesterday published by a Scots newspaper, the Glasgow-based Sunday Herald. Today, India's leading newspaper the Times Of India printed a picture of the footballer and used his name three times in a report about the injunction.
Spotlight: Former Big Brother star Imogen, left, shopping with a friend over the weekend
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