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    Liverpool star Luis Diaz welcomes baby girl months after his dad’s horror 12-day kidnap ordeal

    LIVERPOOL star Luis Diaz’s wife Geraldine Ponce has given birth to their second child.The pair published adorable pictures of baby daughter Charlotte last night.
    Luis Diaz is pictured with baby daughter Charlotte and her older sister Roma, 2, last nightCredit: Instagram
    The family wrote alongside the snaps ‘now we are Roma and Charlotte’. Pictured, Luis and his wife Geraldine Ponce with their two childrenCredit: Instagram
    Liverpool star Diaz lifted his shirt to reveal the words ‘Libertad Para Papa’ (‘Freedom for my father’) after scoring against Luton ahead of his dad’s releaseCredit: PA
    Geraldine, also mum to Roma, two, wrote alongside one of the snaps showing the proud parents and their children: “Now we are Roma and Charlotte.”
    Roma celebrated her second birthday last November, while Luis’s dad was still being held by kidnappers in their native Colombia.
    Geraldine also posted a message from a relative on social media which said: “Welcome my beautiful Charlotte. God bless you. And congratulations mummy and daddy.”
    The Liverpool winger also published a touching photo of him in a hospital head cap cuddling up to his youngest daughter on one side while his wife kissed her on the cheek.
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    Now we are Roma and Charlotte Geraldine PonceInstagram
    And in a joint message on social media, the couple wrote alongside one of the photos of the latest addition to their family: “It’s a long-awaited and desired girl, who came into our lives with incredible magic.
    “On our seventh anniversary, April 25, we decided it was time to see our family grow.
    “Just a month later, also on the 25th, this time in May, we received the news that we did not expect to hear so soon, our baby was already with us.
    “And today, January 25, on a day that we already considered special, our little girl arrived. God has blessed us with our daughter.
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    “Charlotte has arrived to fill us with laughter, love and unforgettable moments. Now the 25th of each month belongs to her. Welcome our magical princess.”
    The footballer’s father Luis Manuel Díaz Jimenez, 58, feared he wouldn’t make it out alive as he endured a terrifying 12-day ordeal after being kidnapped by ELN guerrillas in Colombia.
    He was freed in a handover involving a Colombian priest close to the Venezuelan border on November 9 last year.
    His son continued playing through the harrowing episode, scoring a late goal after coming on as a substitute in Liverpool’s November 5 win over Luton.
    He then returned to Colombia to be reunited with his dad in emotional scenes following his release.
    He went on to score two goals for his country in a historic victory over Brazil in a match his father watched from the stands.
    The ELN, branded a terrorist organisation by the US government and the EU, admitted responsibility for the kidnapping before Luis Manuel’s release.
    Four alleged members of a gang called Los Primos, said to have carried out the kidnap and handed Mr Diaz over to a regional ELN unit called the Northern War Front, were subsequently arrested and are believed to be still in prison awaiting trial.
    Luis kisses his wife’s forehead during the birthCredit: Instagram
    Luis reunites with his dad after his kidnap ordeal
    Luis with his mum and dad Luis ManuelCredit: Supplied
    Luis Diaz scored twice late on to fire Colombia to victory over BrazilCredit: Getty
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    Lauryn Goodman plays on beach with kids she shares with Kyle Walker after fleeing UK as star’s secret family was exposed

    LAURYN Goodman has been snapped playing on a beach with the two children she shares with shamed footballer Kyle Walker.The model, 33, fled the UK just days after it was revealed her six-month-old is Walker’s daughter.
    Snaps show Lauryn Goodman cradling her daughter, whose name is unknown, in her arms as she enjoyed a kick about with her son Kairo, threeCredit: Click News and Media
    Lauryn throws her daughter in the air as they played on the beachCredit: Click News and Media
    The model took great care of her kids as they soaked up the sunCredit: Click News and Media
    The family spent time together on the beach after fleeing the UKCredit: Click News and Media
    Kyle and Annie were childhood sweetheartsCredit: BackGrid
    Walker was dumped earlier this week after his wife Annie Kilner was sent a Boxing Day message revealing a “second love child” with Lauryn.
    The model is understood to have bluntly written: “I don’t have two baby daddies — I have one.”
    Kyle, 33, was then dumped by his wife after admitting he was the father.
    Snaps show Lauryn today cradling her daughter, whose name is unknown, in her arms as she enjoyed a kick about with her son Kairo, three.
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    She wore a luminous orange bikini and dressed her young family in matching Burberry designer outfits.
    Lauryn and her two kids flew first class on January 13 as they escaped the drama surrounding Kyle.
    It comes after Lauryn revealed to the Sun on Sunday the Man City and England right back had gaslit her in a “toxic” relationship – saying he had lived a double life.
    And model Lauryn told how she took matters into her own hands after months of begging the footballing ace to come clean to his wife.
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    Love rat Walker had been visiting his son and daughter that he shared with Lauryn – while long-suffering wife Annie had no idea.
    And she revealed the toll it has taken on her in an emotional Instagram post.
    She said: “I am typing this in tears and breaking down in front of my children.
    “I’ve addressed everything that’s been said this week and apologised to Annie.
    “I’ve gone away with my children as this week has been so difficult to cope with.”
    Lauryn had opened up about the affair in recent days – revealing she had wanted to start 2024 with a clean slate.
    She said she had wanted Kyle to tell Annie about the relationship – and said in her social media post that she had dealt with the situation “the best way I can”.
    She added: “My daughter is only six months old and my hormones are still raging so I have dealt with this in the best way I can and now I need to be left alone.
    “I’m not trying to claim to be the victim in this situation but I’m hugely struggling with my mental health now, I’m at breaking point and I can’t be the best possible mum to my babies when I feel this low.
    “I know people love gossip but this is pushing me to the edge.”
    In an exclusive interview with The Sun on Sunday, Lauryn said that after so many wrongs, she knew she had to do the right thing and reveal the truth to Annie so they could all “live their lives like adults”.
    Fighting back tears, Lauryn said: “I kept saying to Kyle, ‘You need to tell her.
    “You need to tell Annie that you are our daughter’s father and you are having a relationship with your children.
    “We need to start 2024 out in an open way. If everyone knows where they stand they can make their own adult choices in life.
    “I didn’t want to cause any more heartache for Annie or be a b***h but I had to tell her because Kyle was too weak to do it.
    “There were hearings coming up surrounding our daughter, there was paperwork flying around and legal meetings had taken place and Annie needed to know the truth before something went public.
    “Kyle was happy hiding the truth because he was having two families and was scared about what would happen when Annie knew but I kept saying to him, ‘Our daughter can’t be a secret, she is a human’.
    “I didn’t want them to split up or cause harm but it had to be out in the open for all of our sakes.
    “When I told Annie, she was cool and calm.”
    Walker has apologised to Annie — who has sons, Roman, Riaan and Reign, with the player — after she announced she was “taking time away” from him.
    He wrote on Instagram: “Annie is an amazing woman and I can only apologise for the upset I’ve caused her.”
    He has moved into a flat near the family’s home in Prestbury, Cheshire.
    She had previously been humiliated after Kyle was unmasked as the father of Lauryn’s son Kairo, born in April 2020.
    They conceived the youngster during their short relationship when Kyle was temporarily split from Annie – who finally dumped him this month.
    In November 2021, Kyle and Annie – who have three sons together – got married, before announcing their separation. 
    In March 2023, Lauryn revealed that she was expecting her second child – and kept tight-lipped about her daughter’s paternity, only revealing he “is a footballer”.
    Annie and Walker met as teenagers in their home city of Sheffield.
    But their troubles began after he made a £50million move from Tottenham to Manchester City in 2017.
    In 2019 it emerged he had romped with Ex On The Beach star Laura Brown in his Bentley.
    Model Annie kicked him out but gave him another chance.
    He was moving his stuff back in when he had a brief fling with Lauryn and she fell pregnant. Kyle moved out of the family home and began renting a luxury £8,000-a-month apartment in nearby Hale, Cheshire.
    He pleaded with Annie to take him back but was then exposed for breaking Covid  rules by hosting a £2,200 orgy with two hookers.
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    Lauryn gave birth to Kairo in April 2021 then publicly unmasked Walker as his dad.
    Annie took him back again and he proposed with a £250,000 ring.The couple wed in December 2021 at Mottram Hall, Cheshire.
    Lauryn’s statement on InstagramCredit: instagram
    Kyle Walker has been revealed as the father of both her kidsCredit: Getty
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    Kyle Walker cheated on wife Annie and mistress Lauryn Goodman with a mystery model

    FOOTIE love rat Kyle Walker cheated on his wife and mistress with a third woman — a mystery model.The England ace and soon-to-be dad of six even discussed children with his secret lover.
    Kyle Walker was cheating on his wife Annie Kilner with a third womanCredit: Xposure
    Kyle and Lauryn Goodman had a brief fling in 2019, with Lauryn giving birth to their first child in April 2020Credit: Getty
    Now it’s emerged Kyle was also seeing a mystery woman until September 2021Credit: Getty
    He met her in a club in January 2019 — four months before he briefly split from his wife, Annie Kilner.
    The relationship with the model lasted until September 2021.
    Kyle, 33, and model and influencer Lauryn Goodman also had a brief fling in 2019.
    Lauryn gave birth to her first child with the ace, Kairo, in April 2020.
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    Kyle and Annie, 31, were reconciled, wed in 2022 and now have three boys together.
    But Annie and Lauryn were in the dark about the third of Kyle’s hat-trick of bedmates.
    A source said: “As the mask slips, the truth of Kyle’s deception is laid bare.
    “It’s incredible Kyle had any energy left for football.”
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    Annie announced last week she was separating from Kyle — swiftly followed by the news that he was also the father of a six-month-old girl with Lauryn.
    And it emerged that Annie was pregnant again with her fourth child with the footballer.
    He has moved out of the family home and is renting an £8,000-a-month apartment in nearby Hale, Cheshire. More

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    Alejandro Garnacho’s influencer girlfriend unfollows Man Utd ace sparking rumours of split just months after baby joy

    ALEJANDRO GARNACHO’s influencer girlfriend has sparked rumours of a split with the Manchester United star with her recent Instagram activity.Eva Garcia set chins wagging by posting a selfie photo with their son and the message: “You and me against the world.”
    Alejandro Garnacho and his girlfriend Eva Garcia welcomed their first child into teh world last OctoberCredit: INSTAGRAM@EEVICHUU
    But the 19-year-old influencer has sparked rumours of a split with the Manchester United manCredit: INSTAGRAM@EEVICHUU
    Garcia has unfollowed the Argentina international on InstagramCredit: INSTAGRAM@EEVICHUU
    Her eagle-eyed social media followers have picked up on the fact the brunette is no longer following the Argentina international on social media.
    The pair have since been bombarded with questions about their love life online.
    One of Garcia’s concerned influencer pals asked her: “What happened?”
    Another posted on their social media: “Garnacho, what have you done?”
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    One of Garnacho’s legion of female fans tried to take advantage of the rumour mill by offering to cook his favourite dishes, telling him: “Now you’re separated let me know.”
    There was no immediate response from the Red Devils star, whose last Instagram Live post was a Happy Birthday message to his mum.
    Garnacho and Garcia, who boasts an impressive 534,000 followers, celebrated the birth of their first child in October.
    The 19-year-old footballer announced the birth of his son – Enzo Garnacho Garcia – on social media with an adorable photo showing him cuddling up to his baby son and partner in a hospital bed.
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    Several of his United team-mates flocked to the post to congratulate the couple.
    Garnacho and 18-year-old Garcia made their relationship public back in 2021, although it is understood they knew each other for years beforehand.
    The pair announced they were expecting their first child in April last year.
    They then held a gender reveal party to confirm their baby was a boy before announcing his name would be Enzo.
    On New Year’s Eve, Garnacho posted a touching photo of him with his arms around his baby son alongside a message which said: “2023 will always be a very happy year.
    “And remembered because life gave me the most beautiful thing it could ever give me, since you arrived my life changed forever.
    “My father always told me I would never know what it is to love someone like you love a child until you have him and since you came along you are my reason to smile and be happy every day.
    “Dad loves you more than anything in this world, I’ll always take care of you.”
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    The last photo he posted with Garcia was just over three weeks ago, showing them with Enzo in Christmas pyjamas.
    Garcia has yet to remove any of her snaps with Garnacho, although has yet to explain her mysterious post.
    Garcia styles herself as an influencerCredit: Instagram @eevichuu
    She has been dating the Man Utd ace for some timeCredit: Instagram @eevichuu
    The couple spent Christmas together with their new babyCredit: Instagram @eevichuu
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    Kyle Walker made mortifying blunder during secret hotel rendezvous with Lauryn Goodman before second lovechild born

    KYLE Walker made a mortifying blunder during a secret hotel rendezvous with Lauryn Goodman before his second lovechild was born, it is claimed.The Man City star is alleged to have accidentally called Lauryn by his wife Annie Kilner’s name in bed on the night they conceived a baby.
    Kyle Walker fathered a love child on the eve of a groin op
    The affair has broken up Kyle’s marriage to Anne Kilner, who he shares three sons withCredit: BackGrid
    Walker allegedly called Lauryn his wife’s name during a rompCredit: Getty
    Walker had travelled to London to undergo a groin operation as he faced a race for fitness in a bid to make Gareth Southgate’s World Cup squad.
    But before the op on October 4 2022, the star enjoyed a secret rendezvous with Lauryn behind long-suffering wife Annie’s back.
    The hotel romp saw Lauryn fall pregnant with his second love child to her — a girl born in July last year.
    Now, the Man City ace is alleged to have told Lauryn he loved her during the tryst in London’s Four Seasons hotel, reports the Mirror.
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    The player and Lauryn already had a son, Kairo, three, born following a brief relationship when the footballer had split from childhood sweetheart Annie.
    Despite the affair breaking apart his marriage to wife Annie Kilner, a pal says Lauryn meant nothing to the footballer.
    She told the Mirror: “It was effectively just a very, very quick fleeting thing while he was in the area.
    “Yes, things happened a few times but there were no ­feelings, and certainly no romance.”
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    Speaking to The Sun on Sunday, Lauryn previously revealed she made secret visits to Manchester so Kyle could see Kairo under his wife’s nose.
    But it was during these covert meetups – which included a trip to a petting zoo and football sessions in the garden with Kairo – that the pair became close again.
    Lauryn then fell pregnant and gave birth to a daughter last summer but she claims Kyle repeatedly denied the girl was his.
    Left with no other choice and desperate to move forward “like adults”, she broke the news to Annie on December 27.
    She said: “I don’t think Annie wanted to believe it was true, which is understandable.
    “She kept asking for proof so I showed her the DNA test but even then she doubted it was real until I pointed out my daughter’s name on the paperwork.”
    As the women chatted they realised the England defender had lied to them both.
    Lauryn says: “She was asking all sorts of questions. I said, ‘I don’t want to hurt you,’ but she insisted on seeing photos, getting details.
    “I showed her one of Kyle and Kairo playing football together.
    “I know he has got photos of our kids up at Manchester City, I’ve met him lots of times since Kairo was born too. He has met his daughter.”
    Walker was later kicked out of the Cheshire home he shared with his wife and three sons.
    He is now renting a luxury £8,000-a-month apartment in nearby Hale, Cheshire.
    Annie announced last week she was separating from Walker after two years of marriage.
    It was confirmed hours later that Kyle is the father of Lauryn’s daughter.
    The couple met as teenagers in their home city of Sheffield.
    But their troubles began after he made a £50million move from Tottenham to Manchester City in 2017.
    In 2019 it emerged he had romped with Ex On The Beach star Laura Brown in his Bentley.
    Model Annie kicked him out but gave him another chance.
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    But he was then exposed for breaking Covid rules by hosting a £2,200 orgy with two hookers.
    Last March, the City star was seen on CCTV exposing himself in a bar and snogging a woman.
    Walker and Annie meeting up for the first time since their shock splitCredit: Dan Charity
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    Kyle Walker’s pregnant wife Annie Kilner reveals ‘K’ commitment tattoo after dumping footballer over Lauryn Goodman baby

    PREGNANT Annie Kilner reveals a “K” commitment tattoo — as she bonds with a loyal new companion.Model Annie, 30, clutched a puppy as she continues to live apart from hubby Kyle Walker.
    Annie Kilner clutched a puppy following her split from Kyle — with a commitment tattoo showingCredit: Splash News
    A source said of Kyle: ‘If only he had shown her the same level of commitment’Credit: Splash
    The Man City defender, 33, is trying to save their marriage despite fathering a second child with Lauryn Goodman.
    He continues to wear his wedding ring — unlike Annie, whose tattoo will prove harder to remove.
    A source said: “Annie had ‘K’ for Kyle tattooed on to her ring finger a while ago.
    “If only he had shown her the same level of commitment.”
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    We revealed Annie is six months pregnant with their fourth baby.
    The source added: “Her focus is their baby. She’s under a huge amount of pressure because of what he’s done.
    “But she wants to make sure she is doing everything she can to stay strong.”
    Lauryn and Kyle already share son Kairo, three, born in 2021 following a brief split with his childhood sweetheart Annie.
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    Last week it emerged Lauryn fell pregnant with their daughter following secret visits to  Manchester for Kyle to see their son.
    They had a daughter last summer – now six months old – but Lauryn claims Kyle repeatedly denied the girl was his.
    She said the footballer then “tried to control me” in an effort to keep his secret family hidden from Annie.
    Fighting back tears, she says she kept asking the footballer to come clean with his wife but he was “too weak to do it”.

    Left with no other choice and desperate to move forward “like adults”, she broke the news to Annie on December 27.
    She told The Sun on Sunday: “I don’t think Annie wanted to believe it was true, which is understandable.
    “She kept asking for proof so I showed her the DNA test but even then she doubted it was real until I pointed out my daughter’s name on the paperwork.”
    As the women chatted they realised the England defender had lied to them both.
    Lauryn says: “She was asking all sorts of questions. I said, ‘I don’t want to hurt you,’ but she insisted on seeing photos, getting details.
    “I showed her one of Kyle and Kairo playing football together.
    “I know he has got photos of our kids up at Manchester City, I’ve met him lots of times since Kairo was born too. He has met his daughter.”
    Walker was later kicked out of the Cheshire home he shared with his wife and three sons.
    He is now renting a luxury £8,000-a-month apartment in nearby Hale, Cheshire.
    Annie announced last week she was separating from Walker after two years of marriage.
    It was confirmed hours later that Lauryn and Kyle shared a six month-old-daughter.
    Despite the affair tearing apart his marriage, a pal claims Lauryn meant nothing to the footballer.
    They told the Mirror: “It was effectively just a very, very quick fleeting thing while he was in the area.
    “Yes, things happened a few times but there were no ­feelings, and certainly no romance.”
    It comes as the player romped with Ex On The Beach star Laura Brown in his Bentley 4×4 and was caught having a Covid busting orgy with two hookers.
    Last March the City star was seen on CCTV exposing himself in a bar and snogging a woman.
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    He dirty-danced with the woman — not his wife — and a female friend after he arrived at the Manchester venue drunk with male pals.
    Walker later voluntarily attended a police station for an interview for indecent exposure.
    The source added: ‘Her focus is their baby. She’s under a huge amount of pressure because of what he’s done’Credit: Splash
    Annie was seen kissing her tiny poochCredit: Splash
    The couple married in 2021Credit: Splash
    Annie is focusing on her pregnancy, a source saidCredit: Splash
    Annie and Kyle in happier times, before she learned that her love rat husband had fathered a second child with Lauryn GoodmanCredit: Tim Stewart News Limited
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    Man-child Kyle Walker needs to take a long, hard look at himself and grow the hell up like Harry Kane

    JUDGING by his presence in both the England and Man City teams, footballer Kyle Walker’s sporting brain appears to be in full working order.But when it comes to emotional intelligence, he’s clearly cerebrally challenged.
    Kyle Walker is clearly cerebrally challenged in the emotional department, with five (apparently soon to be six) children by two different womenCredit: Getty
    How else has he ended up with five children by two different women, both of whom are furious with him?
    Stage left is his wife Annie, mother of three of his children and, according to The Sun yesterday, now pregnant with their fourth.
    Stage right is “lover” Lauryn Goodman, who recently revealed that not only was her three-year-old son fathered by Kyle, but her baby daughter, too.
    And centre stage is Kyle, who is known for his “pace, strength and vision” on the pitch but, off it, was seemingly as blind as a bat to the emotional perils that lay ahead because he couldn’t keep it in his trousers.
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    Reality star Lauryn, 32, says: “I kept saying to Kyle . . . ‘You need to tell her’ . . . If everyone knows where they stand they can make their own adult choices in life.
    “There were hearings coming up surrounding our daughter, there was paperwork flying around and legal meetings had taken place, and Annie needed to know the truth before something went public.”
    But Kyle did nothing and failed to anticipate what any adulterous schmuck knows — that Christmas is a potential flashpoint when you’re playing away.
    Particularly when your lover is facing the festive season as a single parent while her “baby daddy” is off playing happy families with his wife and other children.
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    Lauryn explains that, following a legal meeting in December, “it came to a head” and she realised he was playing her and Annie off against each other.
    So, the day after Boxing Day, while Kyle was, er, playing away at Everton, she lobbed her emotional hand grenade into the cosy, post-Christmas idyll of Chez Walker and made a call to Annie.
    “She kept asking for proof, so I showed her the DNA test . . . she was trying to piece it all together . . . how he did it,” says Lauryn.
    To add insult to injury, she reveals that Kyle would regularly call her from the England dressing room and . . . “I wasn’t a secret to his England teammates — they would come on the phone when he FaceTimed me.”
    Very classy, chaps. Annie has now announced she is separating from Kyle after 12 years together (two of them married) and Kyle has publicly apologised to her for “the upset I’ve caused”, as though he’d simply caused a scene in a restaurant rather than fathered two secret children by another woman.
    Annie deserves better and I hope she eventually finds someone who treats her respectfully, but if she is pregnant again, her emotions will be raging and make it harder to see a future without the father of her children. So watch this space.
    In the meantime, Kyle needs to take a long, hard look at himself and grow the hell up.
    When it comes to women, life as a Premier League footballer is akin to being a kid in a sweetie shop.
    If you’re a single, teenage star, it’s perhaps understandable that you take your pick, but even an 18/19-year-old knows that, whatever contraception the woman says she’s using, the use of a condom is an extra layer of protection if you don’t want an unplanned baby and years of legal wrangling.
    Kyle is 33, for God’s sake. So perhaps it’s time for this man-child to take note of the example given by his 30-year-old teammate and England captain Harry Kane, whose longevity in the game is undoubtedly bolstered by his loyalty to his wife and children and the subsequent lack of drama in his personal life.
    Ditto his England manager Gareth Southgate, who has been happily married for 26 years.
    In June 2018, the manager warned his ­players about cheating in a meeting before a 2-1 victory over Nigeria at Wembley.
    “It’s not that we are looking to get away with anything, but if we thought we could then that option has gone.
    “We have to be vigilant in all areas of the pitch.”
    He was talking about football, of course. But, in Kyle’s case, it’s sound life advice, too.
    Kyle should look to the good example that Harry Kane has setCredit: Getty
    GIVE US POWER TO ACT
    WHEN we speak of an “institution” and its failings, it’s easy to forget that it’s inanimate.
    It’s only as good, or not, as the people working within it.
    The jury’s still out on whether Post Office investigator Stephen Bradshaw was useless or ruthless after he as accused of behaving like a ‘Mafia gangster’Credit: postofficehorizoninquiry
    Some of its staff can make it efficient and fair, others can make it sluggish and incompetent, while the worst people of all can make it corrupt.
    And the sheer size of certain institutions means there are plenty of hiding places for these human failings committed, often wilfully, by people who, as long as their lives are cushioned by job security, sick pay and a fat pension etc, don’t give a flying fig about the havoc they wreak on others.
    The jury’s out on whether Post Office investigator Stephen Bradshaw was useless or ruthless, but at the public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal, he and his colleagues were accused of behaving “like Mafia gangsters” towards the postmasters wrongly accused of taking money.
    The gimlet-eyed Mr Bradshaw denies it, but he allegedly “hounded” one woman in more than 60 calls and called her a “bitch” in “extremely distressing” conversations.
    Surely it’s time for MPs – the cogs of that other inanimate body known as “Parliament” – to give ordinary people the power and resources to robustly defend themselves against these “institutional failings”?

    Seems like the kids’ summer commitments mysteriously vaporise if you suggest going to enjoy cocktails with them on a tropical beachCredit: Getty
    “BOOMERANG tourism” is reportedly a big thing for 2024 – with millennial adult children planning to rejoin their parents for holidays.
    Hmmm. Ask your kids, “Are you free in the summer?” and chances are you’ll get: “Not sure yet. What are you planning?”
    If you say, “a week’s camping in the UK” then they’re busy.
    But if you mention a tropical beach and cocktails, their commitments mysteriously vaporise.
    Luck of the drawers, Geri
    GERI Horner says she nearly missed out on early auditions for the Spice Girls after getting bad sunburn on holiday and a face full of blisters.
    But she adds: “I’ve always been a queue-jumper.”
    Geri Horner has revealed that her little hotpants were her key to stardomCredit: Getty
    So she called up the producers, who agreed to see her and, despite not being a trained singer or dancer, she says she “made up for it in enthusiasm”.
    Good for her. But one imagines there were plenty of other enthusiastic souls warbling and hoofing their way to wannabe stardom, too, so why did she make the cut?
    She adds that she was “quite quirky, in my little hotpants”.
    Mystery solved.
    TIP’S A CHOC SHOCK
    HAVING just spent a few days in New York, I was shocked by the level of tipping expected.
    It’s a form of legalised mugging.
    Tipping culture in New York is a form of legalised muggingCredit: Getty
    Even if you buy an orange juice “to go”, you’re handed a contactless machine that gives the minimum option of a 20 per cent sweetener to the till operator on top of the extortionate mark-up you’re already paying.
    Gulp.
    But the moment that rendered me utterly speechless was when I used a self-service checkout to buy a chocolate bar at Newark Airport, and even the machine asked me if I would like to leave it a tip.
    I told it not to bet on Chelsea winning the Premier League.
    WAHEY TO GO, GUYS
    A FAN of Morecambe and Wise lost his job at a bus company after managers failed to see the funny side when he and a colleague replicated the comedy duo’s famous kitchen “striptease”.
    It was meant as a “jovial Christmas act”, but he was sacked for “gross misconduct” and has subsequently taken CE Jeatt & Sons of Windsor to tribunal and won more than £50,000 in compensation for wrongful dismissal.
    A Morecambe and Wise fan has received compensation for wrongful dismissal after a bus company wasn’t fond of him recreating their ‘striptease’Credit: Scope Features
    Quite right, too.
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    Who are these killjoys who suck all the fun out of life?
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    Lauryn Goodman registers company in name of son she shares with Kyle Walker – & can sell boots, clothes & even furniture

    LAURYN Goodman has registered a company in the name of the son she shares with Kyle Walker.The reality star gave birth to Kairo Walker in April 2020 and England defender Kyle was unmasked as the father.
    Lauryn Goodman was seen fleeing the country with suitcases covered in her children’s initialsCredit: Click News and Media
    Kyle Walker has been revealed as the father of both her kids
    Annie Kilner dumped Kyle earlier this week
    They conceived the youngster during their short relationship when Kyle was temporarily split from Annie Kilner – who dumped him this week.
    The Sun can now reveal Instagram influencer Lauryn registered a new business called Kairo Walker Limited on June 24, 2021.
    The business activities of the company include boot and shoe designing, clothes designer and even furniture designing.
    Jewellery designing, graphic designer and fashion designing are also listed, according to Companies House.
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    Lauryn is recorded as the sole director and owns all 100 shares in the company.
    It comes after Lauryn was seen fleeing the country with suitcases covered in her children’s initials at Gatwick Airport.
    The 32-year-old showed off her figure in a cropped jumper and black leggings as she checked in three suitcases – branded with ‘KW’.
    Walker was dumped earlier this week after his wife Annie was sent a message about a “second love child” with Lauryn.
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    The model is understood to have bluntly written: “I don’t have two baby daddies — I have one.”
    Kyle, 33, was then dumped by his wife after admitting he was indeed the father.
    In November 2021, Kyle and Annie – who have three sons together – got married, before announcing their separation. 
    In March 2023, Lauryn revealed that she was expecting her second child – and kept tight-lipped about her daughter’s paternity, only revealing he “is a footballer”.
    But on Boxing Day Kyle’s betrayal finally caught up with him.
    In an online statement, Annie wrote: “I am posting this in response to growing recent media enquiries about my marriage to Kyle and in an effort to protect my family against the intensity of the media spotlight.
    “Sadly, after many years of marriage and three wonderful children together; I have decided to take some time away from Kyle.
    “I do not wish to comment on the position any further. For now, I ask that the privacy of myself and our three young children is respected during this difficult time.”
    Walker released his own statement in a public Instagram apology.
    The post read: “Annie is an amazing woman and I can only apologise for the upset I’ve caused her.
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    “She’s been part of my life for so long and that will never change for the sake of our children.
    “I would ask for privacy for all of our family, and especially our young children, whilst we work through these difficult times.” More