'A friend of Lauryn Goodman tells ALISON BOSHOFF about looming court battle: 'It went badly for her the last time. She blames her lawyer. It will be different this time around.'While the sporting world has focused on Kyle Walker's speed, agility, strength and stamina on the football pitch, his wife's stony expression, watching from the stands last week, told us everything we needed to know about his performance thus far as a husband.
Lauryn's had her say in the pages of this newspaper about her reasons for doing so , but Kyle won't talk about it and neither will Annie. Meanwhile, what few know is this: the relationship between Kyle and his former mistress is reaching a decisive moment in a championship match of its own. For in just over a fortnight Lauryn and Kyle, 34, will face each other in the Family Court in London. It's possible that Annie will attend, too.
Annie, 32, mother to four of Kyle's sons, attended England's Euro 2024 game against Denmark at the Frankfurt Arena in Germany last week 'ITV feel like, as it stands, it can't make the show that it would want to make. It is possible that they could come back to it later this year or early next, but at the moment it is off.'
Whether Annie was aware that Kyle's ex-lover, and her arch-nemesis, Lauryn, was sitting just 70 meters away on the opposite side of the Frankfurt stadium nine days ago is unclear To complicate matters further, later that year Annie also got pregnant, news of which Kyle tried to keep quiet, in case, as he put it, everything blew. It blew anyway.
A friend of Lauryn's said: 'She is a person who gets very upset and then it is hard to reason with her. The other side have a lot of money and a lot of lawyers. The fact is that Kyle did promise her the earth and he did send her gifts.'