preventing details of his affair with Imogen Thomas
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The footballer at the centre of the gagging order over his affair with Big Brother star Imogen Thomas was named today in the House of Commons as Ryan Giggs.
MP John Hemmings used parliamentary privilege to name the star saying 75,000 people had already outed him on Twitter adding it would be 'impracticable' to prison everyone on the website who had named him.
Speaker John Bercow leapt out of his seat after Mr Hemmings said the footballer's name to try and protect his identity.
Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming, who has been campaigning on the issue, was telling parliament that it was not practical to imprison the 75,000 Twitter followers who have already named the player when he uttered his name.
He named the star just minutes after the High Court refused to lift a ban on naming the sportsman who had a relationship with the Big Brother star.
Mr Bercow said: 'Let me just say to the honourable gentleman, I know he's already done it, but occasions such as this are occasions for raising the issues of principle involved, not seeking to flout for whatever purpose.'
Mr Hemming responded: 'The question is what the Government's view is on an enforceability of a law that clearly doesn't have public consent.'
Attorney General Dominic Grieve, who would be responsible for any prosecution for contempt, had earlier said during a Parliamentary debate on the injunction issue: 'It is our duty as parliamentarians to uphold the rule of law.'
Despite thousands of people naming him on Twitter, the Press still cannot name the star over his alleged affair with Big Brother's Imogen Thomas.
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