Just over 1 in 10 Brits thinks that Stacey Cooke, footballer Ryan Giggs’s wife, should stay with her husband, after this week’s high-profile scandal which has seen the player’s alleged affair brought up in the House of Commons following a high-profile Twitter breaking of a supposed injunction that was originally intended to hide the reported indiscretion.
In contrast, the same number as think Cooke should leave Giggs believes that she will stay with him instead.
- 13% say that Cooke should stay with her husband
- 42% say that she should leave him (while 45% say they don’t know)
- Compared to 42% who think that Cooke will actually stay with her husband
- And 12% who think she will go ahead and leave him (and 45% again saying they don’t know)
Parliamentary privilege
As a key player for English Premier League football team Manchester United for almost twenty years, Ryan Giggs is the only sportsman to play and score in every season of the Premier League, and was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2009.
His on-pitch record, however, has been overshadowed in recent weeks by speculation that he had taken out a superinjunction to hide his affair with former Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas. His identity was strongly connected with the scandal, however, after micro-blogging website Twitter reported his name, and Giggs’s lawyers reportedly tried to sue the site. MP John Hemming then announced the footballer’s name using parliamentary privilege in the House of Commons, as a clear, and some have said ‘attention-seeking’, attempt to stimulate debate over what some see as the country’s outdated privacy laws.
