Premier League footballer wins gagging order on affair with topless model

Another Premier League footballer has won a gagging order to suppress details of his sordid sex life after he cheated on his wife for six months with a topless model.

The footballer, who has been described as a "family man", met Imogen Thomas, 28, who rose to fame as a reality TV contestant in Big Brother, in secret at a string of luxury hotels, it was claimed.

The famous footballer's agent has described the revelations as a shock.

"This is incredible. I can't believe it. He is such a family man. I don't know what to say, knowing the closeness of his family," the Daily Mail quoted the agent as saying.

Thomas ran to PR guru Max Clifford, who was has been fielding lucrative offers for her kiss-and-tell story. He claims Thomas enjoyed a "relationship" with the footballer.

"She says she was in love with him and thought he was in love with her," he said.

Clifford insisted the model had come to him for "advice and guidance" because she was genuinely upset the story had leaked out.

"She never had any intention of talking about her private life," he added.

The High Court order bans the media from identifying the multi-millionaire star, meaning he joins a rogue's gallery of footballers who have exploited the might of the law to hide their alleged marital misdemeanours.