Imogen Thomas, the Big Brother contestant who has appeared in tears on television regarding how unfair it is that the super injunction put in place by the famous footballer who she had an affair with allowed her to be named but not him allegedly tried to blackmail the footballer for £100,000...

The court document which can be read in full legal jargon here, details exactly how they believe Imogen decided to sell her story to both The Sun and the Mail On Sunday, but not before offering the footballer the chance to buy her silence for £50,000, a sum she then changed to £100,000...

The footballer's lawyers also suggest that:

1. The footballer alleges that he only met her three times, different to her claims of a 6 month affair.
2. Imogen texted the footballer several times in March, leading him to believe she was planning on selling her story - she then said she "needed" £50,000.
3. Upon hearing this, the footballer agreed to meet her in a hotel in April. She asked for a signed football shirt which he gave her, but didn't agree to pay her £50,000.
4. A few days later she asked for another hotel meeting so he gave her some tickets to the match and agreed to meet.
5. It was at this meeting that the footballer "may well have been set up" so that photographs could be taken of her leaving the hotel in collaboration with journalists/photographers. Imogen allegedely feigned innnocence and said she thought she had been followed. 
6. The footballer began to "smell a rat" so texted her saying he didn't want anymore contact with her, before changing his mind and suggesting he may be able to pay her "some money" as he thought she would go the papers otherwise.
7. The price immediately went up to £100,000 and she told him that there was a journalist outside her house.
8. The QC writing the document says "The evidence before the court at that point, therefore, appeared strongly to suggest that the Claimant was being blackmailed"
9. The footballer was then asked to call Imogen on 13th April and when he did, suspected there was a journalist with her. She told him The Sun were thinking of publishing the affair along with photographs of her leaving the hotels.
10. She later texted him saying that one of his friends must have tipped The Sun off. He knew this to be bollocks as he had not mentioned her to anyone else.

And here is the really damning statement...

"The evidence before the court at that stage, therefore, appeared to indicate, rightly or wrongly, that Ms Thomas had arranged for photographs to be taken, having already agreed a payment or payments from the newspaper. Despite that, she was still requesting £100,000 from the Claimant. 

 

...there was ample reason not to trust Ms Thomas.

...it seems probable that she had agreed at some point to contribute to the story in The Sun that was published in its issue for 14 April.

 

It is thus ironic that Ms Thomas has subsequently complained of the court's supposed unfairness in according anonymity to the Claimant but not to her."

To summarize - imogen Thomas just got pwned by the courts and all her tears and stuff on This Morning weren't really telling the whole story, were they Imogen?

Moral of the story? Too many to list.

EDIT: Justice Eady has since issued the following statement:

"I now wish to make it clear that, shortly before this judgment was handed down, Mr Price [David Price QC, Thomas's lawyer] stated on his client's behalf that she denies either causing the publication in the Sun on 14 April or asking the claimant for money."