Unmasked: Football
secretary Vicki Gough, the woman who allegedly bedded Ashley Cole
after spending two nights in hotels with him at the end of
2008
The blonde secretary alleged to have slept with Ashley
Cole has been named.
Vicki Gough, 30, is pictured below arriving to work at Liverpool
FC yesterday - arch rivals of Cole's club Chelsea.
Football fans named her in internet message boards yesterday and
now tabloid newspapers have published her picture.
The details emerged as a fragile Cheryl Cole was spotted dining
out with friends in Hollywood last night, emerging from the Katsuya
restaurant flanked by bodyguards.
The Anfield club are now
investigating to see if Gough's alleged relationship with Cole
impacted on the club.
A spokeswoman for Liverpool FC told MailOnline: 'We are aware of
the story and will examine the facts to see if they have any
bearing on the club.'
Insiders said the secretary's job could be on the line if she is
deemed to have brought the Premiership club into disrepute.
Revealed: Gough arriving
for work at Liverpool FC yesterday and , right, Cheryl Cole out in
Hollywood last night
It is claimed she spent two nights with Ashley in a
hotel rooms in Lincolnshire and Birmingham in late 2008. Football
forums also claim she had been linked to two other premiership
stars in recent months.
Three weeks ago, she was allegedly spotted leaving a trendy
Liverpool restaurant with a top striker. When the allegations
emerged last week, the woman attempted to keep her identity a
secret over fears she would lose her job. But she was outed by
Birmingham City fans, where she used to work, who named her on the
online forum The Small Heath Alliance.
One wrote that Cole's secret fling was with 'our old football
sec Vicki Gough,' adding: 'I feel a new chant coming on. She works
at Liverpool now. Pop in and ask for her.'
The secretary, said to be a valuable member of Liverpool FC,
spoke to The Sun last week on condition of anonymity. But after her
picture was published in today's Daily Star, The Sun also followed
suit.
In her interview with The Sun, Gough described how during her
second encounter with Cole at the Radisson Hotel in Birmingham in
December 2008, Ashley turned up the television so their antics
couldn't be overheard by Chelsea team captain John Terry.
She is the second woman to be linked to Cole in recent weeks.
Topless model Sonia Wild said she received naked photographs of the
England player on her mobile phone in June 2009.
Ashley publicly admitted taking the photos on his phone, but
denied he had sent the lewd images to Wild. After taking the images
while 'larking about', he claims he gave the unregistered,
pay-as-you-go phone to a friend, who must have sent the photos
pretending to be him.
Ashley said: 'I can't believe I gave a phone away that still had
stuff in its memory. I thought I'd deleted it. It seems I was wrong
as someone has used it to pretend to be me.' But his denial was
undermined when Gough came out of the woodwork and it was reported
he had sent her similar messages and more than 300 texts nine
months earlier from the same phone.
It light of the allegations, his humiliated wife flew to Los
Angeles on Wednesday after giving a performance at the Brit Awards
in London the night before.
Her spokesperson declined to comment on the singer's private
life, but said Cheryl planned to record some extra tracks for her
album 3 Words with The Black Eyed Peas.
Friends of the X Factor judge said she is planning to divorce
her husband after the recent allegations.
Flight for this love:
Cheryl leaves Heathrow Airport on Wednesday
Marriage trouble: Cheryl
Cole, pictured with Ashley last July, has fled to Los Angeles
following the allegations of his affairs
The couple experienced a previous rocky patch in January
2008 when hairdresser Aimee Walton claimed she had a drunken sex
with Ashley.
Friends of The X Factor judge claim that a split will be
announced 'within weeks' after she flew to Los Angeles without her
wedding ring, the Mail has learned.
They say the 26-year-old Girls Aloud singer has gone beyond the
point of 'riding out' the storm over their relationship
- and could soon fire the starting gun on a fight over the
couple's assets.
The couple failed to sign a pre-nuptial agreement before their
lavish wedding in July 2006, meaning a split is likely to result in
a costly divorce battle.
She said at the time: 'I think that's defeating the point. We're
getting married because we're committing ourselves to spend our
lives together. No ifs and buts.'
Although a millionaire in her own right, Cheryl is significantly
less wealthy than her husband. Last year, the Sunday Times Rich
List estimated their joint worth at £13million - almost
all of it accrued after their wedding.
That figure is likely to be much higher now.
