Inside married sports stars’ biggest scandals as Kyle Walker’s caught out again … from wife swap to houseboat sex party
THEY’RE at the top of their game with glamorous wives and bulging bank balances – but some sportsmen can’t resist playing away from home.
This week England ace Kyle Walker was caught exposing himself and pawing and snogging a woman in a bar in Manchester.
The Man City ace, 32, was seen grinding against a female pal while boozing with male pals on Sunday evening – with wife Annie Kilner nowhere to be seen.
It’s not the first time he’s been caught out – and he’s not the only footballer to score an own goal. Here we reveal the sportsmens’ league of shame…
Joe Westerman
In February, Super League rugby rat Joe Westerman, 33, was filmed romping in an alley behind Greggs with a pal’s missus.
The Castleford Tigers loose forward was caught performing a sex act on the woman – and his horrified wife Lauren, 33, swiftly booted him out of the family home.
The mum-of-three told The Sun: “I’ve relived that footage over and over again.
“It’s something I’ll never be able to get out of my mind, no matter how hard I try.”
Westerman has apologised and vowed to work on his “decision-making around alcohol”.
John Terry
Former Chelsea and England team-mates John Terry and Wayne Bridge had an epic falling out over allegations married Terry had an affair with Bridge’s then-partner Vanessa Perroncel back in 2009.
Bridge infamously refused to shake Terry’s hand prior to a clash between Chelsea and Manchester City, despite lingerie model Vanessa always denying the allegations.
Bridge and Vanessa dated for four years after first meeting in 2005, and share a son.
The Terry rumours surfaced soon after they split in 2009; friends claimed he had seduced Vanessa as he comforted her over the break-up.
In January 2010 she became the subject of a super-injunction imposed by a High Court judge which prevented the press reporting the allegations – but it was lifted a week later.
Tiger Woods
Pro-golfer Tiger Woods‘ reputation took a battering in 2009 when one of the biggest scandals in golfing history emerged.
Ranked World Number One at the time, dozens of women came forward alleging they had sexual relationships with the-then married golfer.
Former madam Michelle Braun alleged that “every couple of months he requested to have multiple girls”.
“It could be up to 10 girls at a time,” she claimed. “He had a particular type, he liked young college cutie, girl next door types, preferably blonde.”
Former stripper Jamie Jungers claimed she had an 18-month affair with the golfer – rumoured to have slept with more than 120 women.
Woods’ wife and mother of his two kids, Elin Nordegren, divorced him for a whopping $100million, according to reports.
Ryan Giggs
Ryan Giggs landed himself in hot water in 2011 when it emerged he’d been having an eight-year affair with his brother Rhodri’s wife Natasha.
At the same time it emerged he was also having a fling with Big Brother star Imogen Thomas.
Giggs took out a gagging order but was named as the footballer in question in May 2011 by a Scottish newspaper.
After he was named, Imogen said: “I called it off a million times but he kept coming back. He knew it was wrong as well, he said as much, but he was pursuing me.”
Ryan settled his £40million divorce from wife Stacey in 2017.
Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson
Yankees players Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich famously traded partners in 1972 – and caused one of baseball’s biggest romance scandals in the process.
It’s said Peterson became drawn to former cheerleader Susanne Kekich, while quieter Kekich became close to Marilyn Peterson.
Kekich, then 27, said at the time: “Don’t say this was wife-swapping, because it wasn’t. We didn’t swap wives, we swapped lives.”
Andy Carroll
It was especially bad timing for footie star Andy Carroll when photos emerged of him passed out in bed with a blonde after a day of partying — just two weeks before his wedding to reality TV’s Billi Mucklow.
The ex-England striker, 33, partied with Taylor Jane Wilkey after flying to Dubai to gatecrash his fiancée’s hen party and had gone on a 17-hour drinking session.
But both parties denied anything untoward had taken place, with Taylor, 27, telling The Sun: “It was all just a bit of entirely innocent fun.”
Thankfully Andy and Billi’s wedding still went ahead, and the pair are still happily married today.
Oliver Giroud
In 2014 French striker Olivier Giroud, who was playing for Arsenal at the time, was caught quite literally with his pants down.
A photo emerged of Giroud in nothing but boxers in a Four Seasons hotel room with model, Celia Kay.
The striker later issued a grovelling apology on social media, apologising to his wife Jennifer – the mother of his four children – and his club.
She forgave his indiscretions however, and they are still together today, having now been together over 11 years.
Wayne Rooney
He’s been with childhood sweetheat Coleen since they were 16, but there have been many reports surrounding Wayne Rooney over the years.
In 2004 the Sunday Mirror reported that teenage Rooney had paid £140 for sex with prostitute Charlotte Glover, then 21.
Around the same time he was said to have slept with Gina McCarrick, then 37, at a £45 brothel in Liverpool.
It was at this same brothel that he was said to have slept with grandmother Patricia Tierney, then 48, known as the ‘Auld Slapper’.
Rooney went on to cheat again, sleeping with £1,000-a-night prostitute Jenny Thompson, then 21, in July 2009 along with Helen Wood – while Coleen was pregnant with his son Kai.
But Coleen has forgiven him and the couple are still going strong.
Hulk Hogan
In 2012, a sex tape featuring Hogan and Heather Clem, the estranged wife of his best friend Bubba the Love Sponge, emerged online.
A few months later American site Gawker, which has since folded, published a small snippet of the tape online.
Hogan filed a lawsuit against Heather and Bubba for invasion of privacy, winning a settlement.
Linda Hogan, who split from her husband in 2007 – the same year the sex tape filmed – later slammed the film as “sickening”.
“I knew something was going on behind my back, I just didn’t know it was so close to home,” she told Radar.
Minnesota Vikings
Players from NFL team the Minnesota Vikings landed themselves in hot water in 2005.
They allegedly threw a massive sex boat party with around 100 prostitutes rumoured to have been in attendance.
17 members of the team were allegedly involved in the sex party, which was said to have been held on board a pair of houseboats.
Women reportedly flew in from the surrounding areas for the soiree, with some of the players allegedly involved in sex acts in front of the crew.