Byline: John Cooper
TV PRESENTER Gabby Logan has hit back at internet lies that she had an affair with her colleague, Alan Shearer.
She said that it was 'devastating and hurtful' that she was being smeared online with false claims that she tried to hide the non-existent relationship by obtaining a privacy injunction.
Mrs Logan often appears alongside Shearer on BBC's Match Of The Day when Gary Lineker is absent. The mother of two became a victim of the privacy row after a British judge granted an unprecedented worldwide gagging order to a married TV star, permanently banning publication of pictures of him with a woman.
Internet and Twitter gossips seized on the entirely false idea that the BBC sports presenter has had an affair with pundit and former England football captain Mr Shearer.
Yesterday, she said: 'I'm a happily married and faithful wife. It is devastating and hurtful that malicious lies can be circulated on the internet without control when people who genuinely do have something to hide can be protected by court rulings.' She has been married for nearly a decade to former Scotland rugby international Kenny Logan, and the couple have five-year-old twins. She and Mr Shearer are not the only figures to have their reputations unfairly damaged while judges protect the rich and powerful from the consequences of their sexual misbehaviour.
Film star Ewan McGregor has been wrongly named on the internet as the actor who won a privacy injunction to hide his relationship with a prostitute used by footballer Wayne Rooney.
A further row developed at Westminster yesterday after a backbencher told the House Of Commons that there is now a serving MP who has taken out a super-injunction to hide his personal life. Former ITV host Mrs Logan is a presenter of BBC One's Final Score programme. She first found it necessary to deny the rumours about an affair last week when Twitter gossip began to spread. Since then the level of internet speculation has grown swiftly.
Mrs Logan has told Twitter followers that she has no use for privacy injunctions. She said: 'I have never had need or desire to use one, I think it's potentially damaging for free speech and would appear to be a tool for the rich.' Super-injunctions are so secret that it is a crime to reveal their existence, but one can currently be reported. Because so many politicians and lawyers regard super-injunctions as sinister, privacy judges have turned to a new form of injunction.
In these, the gagging order itself and some facts can be reported, but not the names of those involved. This has now led to the smearing of Mrs Logan.
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