Take That star Howard Donald yesterday lost a court battle to hide a secret lover he dated behind the backs of two long-term partners.
The pop romeo, 42, slapped a gagging order on Adakini Ntuli - followed by a second order stopping the press even mentioning that he had taken out the first one.
Now the Appeal Court has scrapped the second gag but the initial one has stayed in place.
It means Adakini is still barred from talking about the nine-year affair, during which he was with victoria Piddington and Marie-Christine Musswessels, who both have his children. But Howard - now romancing a mystery brunette - is not the father of single mum Adakini's two kids.
Earlier this year Adakini hired PR guru Max Clifford and began talks with a Sunday newspaper about telling the story of their 2000-2009 affair.
In March she sent the boy band singer a text demanding: "Why shud I continue 2 suffer financially 4 the sake of loyalty when selling my story will sort my life out?" He hit back with a first injunction and a follow-up super-injunction. Judges have now snubbed Adakini's bid to overturn the original gag but agreed to lift the second.
Lord Justice Maurice Kay said the first order covered "intimate, personal or sexually explicit details... including any facts of a sexual nature" as well as "intimate or sexual activity" However, he and his fellow judges ruled that the singer had no right to remain anonymous and the superinjunction was inappropriate. Howard hailed the decision to keep his ex-lover from selling her story.
His spokesman said Howard had taken out the order "to protect his children from this kind of story and because he believes what took place in private should remain private and not be exploited for financial gain.
"Howard is pleased the Court of Appeal has upheld the injunction."
The star has a child Grace, 11, with victoria. They split in 2002 after he met Marie-Christine in Germany.
He and Marie-Christine, who have daughter Lola, five, broke up in 2009 after he cheated on her with Dutch woman Merith van Onselen, 28.
Howard and his band pals Gary Barlow, Jason Orange, Mark Owen, and Robbie Williams released their new album Progress this week.
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