TAKE That star Howard Donald has won an injunction preventing an ex-girlfriend from revealing details of their relationship, it can be revealed. But the singer lost his bid to stop reporting of the gagging order, after the Court of Appeal today lifted a super-injunction banning its publication.
Donald won the injunction in April after receiving a text from former lover, musician Adakini Ntuli.
The message from the single mum read: "Why shud I continue 2 suffer financially 4 the sake of loyalty when selling my story will sort my life out?"
Before solicitors became involved, Ms Ntuli — who has two children, of whom Howard is not the father — secured the services of publicist Max Clifford.
Mr Justice Eady, who approved the injunction, also prevented her and others from publishing the fact it had been obtained.
Today, Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger, Lord Justice Maurice Kay and Lord Justice Sedley dismissed Ms Ntuli's appeal seeking the discharge of the injunction.
But they allowed her appeal in relation to the super-injunction and anonymity issues.
In the judgment, Lord Justice Maurice Kay said Donald had never married but had had a number of relationships and was the father of two children.
Since 2000, he and Ms Ntuli had a relationship but did not live together and its duration and intensity were matters of dispute.
Donald was also in other relationships during the same period, said the judge, and by the end of 2009, the relationship between the pair seemed to have ended.
He added the injunction covered "any intimate, personal or sexually explicit details about the relationship...including any facts of a sexual nature".
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Another category referred to "intimate or sexual activity".
At the appeal, Ms Ntuli's lawyers argued there should not have been an injunction at all.
She said she did not intend to reveal any descriptions of sexual activity with Donald, and Mr Justice Eady was wrong to extend the order to cover "non-sexual information" such as conversations about the nature of their relationship.
The injunction was aimed at public revelation and did not extend to discussions with close friends and family.
Dismissing Ms Ntuli's appeal in relation to the main injunction, Lord Justice Maurice Kay said Mr Justice Eady made the right decision.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol....Rm6bdhK