Carter Ruck gets a new client

Carter Ruck who have done such trojan work for the McCanns have a new celebrity client.

They are now acting for Cheryl Tweedy formerly of the girl band Girls Aloud and now a solo 'singer.' She was most recently in the news for breaking up with her toy boy Liam Payne (ex One Direction boy band) who is the father of her son Bear Payne.

Carter Ruck are seeking to prevent the media from mentioning her conviction some years ago for assaulting a toilet attendant in a nightclub.

This is bizarre as Cheryl mentioned the incident in her own autobiography published in 2012 which sold an estimated 274,000 copies in the year after its release.

The current legal action arises from a Guardian interview with Cheryl in November last. Carter Ruck are apparently citing the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act in their attempt to gag the media on repeating the old story about the nightclub brawl.

Bizarre indeed.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6635955/Cheryl-Tweedy-bids-airbrush-criminal-past-calling-lawyers-ban-reports-conviction.html

Sounds like Cheryl's book is like Kate McCanns book ie a little creative and not 100% truthful.

According to the Mail article, she said she hit the toilet attendant in self defence. Now seriously, does she expect us to believe that a minimum wage toilet attendant would start an attack on a celebrity in a nightclub? To do so would mean dismissal on the spot. Look at the picture of the attendant in the article Freedom has linked to and see how hard she was hit.

Will be interesting to see if Carter Ruck wins this one!