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Prem stars outed as cheats in the US… but you’re still BANNED from knowing who they are

Tomorrow, American website will blow open gagging orders granted to FOUR well-known sports figures by English judges

A PREMIER League star and manager are among four top sports figures who will be outed as love cheats in the US today.

A website will blow apart a string of strict gagging orders granted to celebrities by the English courts.

Prem league star named in US
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The celebs have been protected in the UK by a string of gagging orders granted by the English courts

It was set to identify them at 2pm UK time, making them known to 250million Americans and hundreds of millions of others worldwide.

But blocking software will stop Brits reading it and The Sun is not even allowed to name the website.

The top player claimed his adultery would have a “devastating effect” on his marriage and won an injunction in 2011.

Justice Elizabeth Laing
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Justice Elizabeth Laing ruled the star should be able to keep fling privateCredit: Photoshot

It is still in force here despite him being named on Twitter and other sites.

The boss who gagged The Sun in 2006 and threatened to gag us again this year over sex texts to another woman will also be named.

Another sportsman to be named had an affair with a famous female celeb behind his fiancée’s back.

But last year, Justice Elizabeth Laing ruled the star, who “appears in advertisements”, should be able to keep the fling private.

Professor Ellis Cashmore
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Professor Ellis Cashmore says injunctions means ‘ruling classes’ still deciding what Brits are allowed to know

The fourth sportsman won two super injunctions against The Sun in 2008, banning the media from revealing intimate details of his private life.

Prof Ellis Cashmore, a sociology author and expert on celeb ­culture, told The Sun the injunctions meant the “ruling classes” were still deciding what ordinary Brits are allowed to know.

The site will also tell how the married celeb who took The Sun to the Supreme Court to keep secret a threesome with another couple has fired their lawyers.