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[The Independent] A “well-known” entertainer has prevented The Sun on Sunday from printing details about his extra-marital activities.

The individual is referred to by the initials PJS and his wife is referred to as YMA in the case. Both are described as public figures.

Judges ruled PJS’s right to “private and family life” overrides The Sun on Sunday’s right to publish an article about his infidelity, under laws on freedom of expression.

This is the first injunction to reach the Court of Appeal for five years and is predicted to prompt the latest series of legal disputes between celebrities and the press over privacy injunctions.

The entertainer is reported to have had a realtionship with another couple over four years ago.

“In 2007 or 2008 the claimant met AB. There is a conflict of evidence as to whether they met through a mutual friend or on Facebook. The claimant and AB had occasional sexual encounters starting in 2009,” Lord Justice Jackson explained in the appeal court judgment.

“AB already had a partner, CD. In a text message exchange on 15 December 2011, the claimant asked if CD was ‘up for a thre*-way’. AB said that CD was. Accordingly, the three met for a thre*-way sexual encounter which they duly carried out. After that encounter, the sexual relationship between the claimant and AB came to an end, but they remained friends.”

The “committed couple” approached Steve Kennedy, the editor of The Sun on Sunday newspaper, just a few months ago in January and told him about their relationship with the prominent figure.

The newspaper, which had been planning on publishing the story, got in touch with the entertainer’s lawyers who claimed the story would be an invasion of privacy, in turn prompting a courtroom dispute.

In the end, the court of appeal ruled the newspaper could not publish the story because the entertainer, who has an “open relationship” with his wife, had an expectation that his sexual activities would remain private.

The judge also took into account the effect the likely to ensue “media storm” would have on the young children of the couple. In their words, “The children would become the subject of increased press attention, with all that that entails”.

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PJS (The Entertainer):

YMA (His Wife):

[Optional] Yes or No: If a public figure is having an extramarital affair, should the media be able to factually report it?

UPDATE!

A similar article in The Guardian was just amended to change “wife” to “partner” as stated in the judgment. Therefore, the original couple may be a same sex couple.

The couple participating in the thre* way (though not celebrities) may also be a same sex couple, as they are simply described as a “committed couple.”

PJS (The Entertainer):

YMA (His Partner):

SOLVED!

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PJS (The Entertainer): Elton John

YMA (His Partner): David Furnish

While the super injunction bars the U.K. media from publishing the names of the celebrity involved, the U.S. media is unaffected.

It looks like all four of the people described in the original blind item are male, which would make sense given the update that changed the descriptors used to describe the people involved.

The Sunday Mail‘s Scottish print edition identified Elton John and David Furnish as the A-list couple:

We are publishing the identities today because there is no legal reason not to publish in Scotland what has been banned in England and Wales.

Their big secret is no secret at all. America knows. The internet knows. The whole world knows.

So now Scotland knows. And so we should.

The National Enquirer was the first out of the gate in the U.S. to run a similar story to the super injunction story. They scored an interview with a businessman who claims that he was David Furnish’s lover.

The brief online article mentions that David Furnish took part in gay thre*some (which may have been a way to simply throw Furnish under the bus instead of Elton John).

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Perhaps AB from the original documents = A Businessman? What do you think PJS and YMA stood for?

The National Post had additional commentary on Elton John’s legal maneuverings:

It has gay thre*somes, a Canadian, olive oil wrestling and one of Great Britain’s most legendary celebrities.

But while Americans, Scots and anybody with an internet connection can read the salacious details of Sir Elton John’s open marriage, a controversial injunction could put English and Welsh journalists in jail if they report the same.

“This is an absolute farce,” British MP Philip Davies, a member of the Commons’ justice select committee, told U.K. media.

The story, as reported last week in the New York-based National Enquirer, is that David Furnish, the Canadian husband of Sir Elton John, has carried on a lengthy affair with British businessman Daniel Laurence.

The three-page exposé detailed trysts in luxury hotels, thre*somes and even a bout of olive oil wrestling, but despite Enquirer claims of Furnish’s “betrayal,” the whole affair appears to be in keeping with the couple’s open relationship.

We want to hear more about the olive oil wrestling!

In other news, Elton John is now being sued in Los Angeles by a former bodyguard for “twisting his nipples and grabbing his [redacted].” It is also alleged Sir Elton tried to place his fingers between the bodyguard’s buttocks and told him to “get your todger (p*nis) out” and to “say hello to Uncle Elton.”

Sounds like every day with Uncle Elton is full of pervy weirdness!

Congratulations to Ruled2 for being first!

UPDATE!

The Enquirer […] reports that lawyers for John say he knew about the relationship [with British businessman Daniel Laurence]. According to Laurence’s account, Furnish had unprotected sex with him at least twice (an allegation John’s lawyers deny in the report) and Furnish joined Laurence and husband Pieter Van den Bergh in a Dec. 2011 thre*some that involved cavorting in a kiddie pool filled with olive oil.

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Why was Elton John been working so hard to suppress the British press from publishing the details of his extra-marital sex story?

Sure, the admission of an open marriage, the extra-marital sex, the thre*somes, and the olive oil kiddie pool makes for great gossip.

However, the real story here is the unprotected gay sex with strangers!

The unprotected gay sex issue is a big deal because Elton John and David Furnish have been long-time fund-raisers for AIDS.

In fact, their OWN charity, The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF), has raised over $200 $300 million to fight AIDS. An example of the fund-raising is the posh post-Oscars EJAF party Elton John throws every year.

Since Elton John has admitted that he and his husband are in an open marriage, Elton John himself has been complicit in acts (having unprotected gay sex) that are known to spread AIDS.

By engaging in such risky and irresponsible behavior, Elton John and David Furnish have managed to completely undermine the Foundation’s mission!

That is likely the real reason Elton John fought so hard to cover up this story and threatened to sue anyone who published it.

It is NOT about Elton John being a celebrity.

Or a father whose children could be subject to ridicule.

Or about men engaging in private and consensual adult behavior.

It’s about the staggering hypocrisy of a huge and public AIDS charity that rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars… while its founders concurrently engage in risky, unprotected sex with multiple strangers!

That is the real story here.

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Comments

  1. Rumour says

    Good editorial BG: what 2 or more consenting adults do in private is their own business & I don’t really care about the salacious details. But it does become newsworthy when the behaviour not only flies against a celebrity’s public statements but the same person then also takes extreme measures to supress the news & names of all involved.

    This story made me dig deeper into the UK injunctions/superinjunctions issue & it is pretty scary, especially as most of the cases don’t even involve…

    • Rumour says

      …don’t even involve celebrities but nevertheless prohibit open discussion of matters in the public interest e.g. disputes with city council – one’s members even spent tens of thousands in city funds seeking to identify & sue someone on Twitter who implicated them of wrongdoing.

  2. LozCat says

    Some years ago, Ralph Fiennes and an airline hostess were sprung having sex in a plane bathroom. The airline hostess lost her job, but of course there were no repercussions for him. They admitted that the sex was unprotected, and he was only on the plane because he was doing AIDS awareness stuff. The hypocrisy of that whole incident was sickening, but it didn’t get much media attention.

  3. erindipity says

    They’re most definitely both on PreP so less chance of in infection than with condomns.

    I have a lot of friends suddenly getting fast and loose who were previously careful.

    The emergence of PreP is making people reckless. It’s also VERY expensive. I suspect Elton John is less concerned about being accused of hypocrisy than enjoying the safety of PreP which is only available to those that can pay and being elitist/sending the wrong message.

    The majority of HIV and AIDS infected people…

  4. Summers says

    Completely agree with BG’s comment on the situation. What consenting adults do together and how they conduct their relationship is their own business, but engaging in risky behaviour that undermines the efforts of the charity workers and all the money raised for the charity is just a massive slap in the face. I don’t care who celebs sleep with as long as they do it safely.

  5. mamacita3 says

    I am wondering if this is Neil Patrick Harris and his partner that had the threesome? And both couples are raising children. Can’t they act parentally-appropriate for the sake of their kids?

  6. Yorkshire Sal says

    I’ve changed my mind, it’s Elton John and David Furnish. I don’t know about the latter, but the former used to prefer partners in foreign countries, who were very young. I remember the news stories in the 70’s. Awful awful people.

  7. thekatsclaws says

    I live in England and it has now been reported in our mediathat an american publication has gone around the UK only injunction and identified these people. I had thought it was Vernon Kay but he wouldn’t garner any US interest, so it must be a bigger name than that. Is Blind Gossip now allowed to solve this, seeing as the identity has been revealed in the US? I can’t find out which US publication it was who outed them?

  8. sneezy says

    Solved by the national enquirer, confirmed by the Daily Mail.

    It’s Elton John’s husband David. Mom always knows best.

  9. marluca999 says

    It’s Elton John. Fact! In The Guardian article, the word wife has been changed to the word partner.

  11. fluffyfluffy says

    The press have released more details. It’s a “world famous couple,” both are very famous, they are multimillionaires, and both pimp out their kids for PR. And they both work in the same industry.

  12. Yorkshire Sal says

    It’s Vernon Kay and Tess Daley. If that’s what floats their boat, then that’s entirely up to them.

  13. jasper says

    It’s someone who was an early adopter to FB. MySpace was Social Media King until 2008, by which time FB (& Twitter) had taken over. so ’07-08 contact on FB is key. FBs first couple years were slow, but this 07-08 time frame is the big shift towards FB.

    Becks-not an “entertainer”
    Pegg-too early in marriage to cheat? wed in 2005, which would also question several other relationships if true.
    Bonneville-a bi encounter would also fuel his pegging rumours. no pun to Simon. is he tech savvy?

  18. Vanessa501 says

    David Beckham’s an “entertainer” ? lol Since when ?? The Beckham’s are married anyway and the update clearly states a “partner” The couple don’t HAVE to be gay though. It still could be anyone so I can’t even guess on this one.

  19. Deusex says

    So British couple in entertainment who have an open relationship…? I think the partner comment is more a legal device to make it more obscure.

    Possibles:

    Elton John and David Furnish
    Sting and Trudie Styler
    Ewan and Eve McGregor
    Tilda Swinton and her two partners
    and surely dozens of others – much less an issue than in the US

  21. sauvblanc says

    The Guardian changed their article from “wife” to “partner” when they realised the court judgement stated “partner”. In other words they messed up – they know full well it’s a M/F married couple, but they accidentally made their report more identifiable. So it’s definitely not a same sex couple.

    • TheSalmon says

      This actually makes more sense. If The Guardian and The Sun know who it is (and they undoubtedly do), using wife would’ve been accidentally more indentifying.
      If it were a same sex couple — and again stressing that the papers know the identity, they are just not being allowed to publish it — they’d have written “partner” from the start.

    • fluffyfluffy says

      No, they didn’t mess up, they made a false assumption. The journalist who wrote that article didn’t know the identity of the couple, they just copied the report. It is a gay couple.

  22. BubbaGump says

    In UK law, initials don’t refer to the claimants actual initials, so PJS is a ‘no lead’.

    My guess is the Beckhams.
    I’m basing it on the historical reference and recently publicized movement of his assets to hers (supposedly bailing out her fashion empire, then saying that they were just adjusting their assets). They have a young family and make a continued point of being seen in public as a committed couple.

  23. dilettante says

    The title made me think of the 10cc lyric, “Don’t tell your friends about the two of us” from I’m Not in Love.

  24. fluffyfluffy says

    Actually “wife” was a typo from the newspaper that originally reported it. The actual court ruling says “partner.” If you check, the newspapers have changed “wife” to “partner.” It’s been pretty much confirmed elsewhere that this BI refers to a gay male couple.

  25. ruled2 says

    Elton John and David Furnish

    The story was corrected to state “partner” instead of “wife”

  26. Vanessa501 says

    Could be absolutely anyone but I’m guessing the initials given are random so I’m going to say Vernon Kay and Tess Daley

  27. CherryBomb27 says

    I could be clutching at straws but I’m going to say Simon Pegg. His initials are SJP, however his wife isn’t all that famous but she is a Publicist. I think the couple were Chris Martin and Goop, Pegg is Godfather to Apple. The source makes me think this is a British based gossip piece.
    As long as it is factual, then yes, the media should be able to report it. If they want to protect their children then it is their responsibility to act in a way their children won’t be harmed.

    • TiffyMac15 says

      Best statement ever!!! Yes, if you want to protect your children then act in a way that will not draw unwanted attention your way.

  28. spunkie brewster says

    Kanye
    Kim K
    Idk if he really valued his privacy, he would have either been more careful with his decision or had them sign some privacy agreement ahead of time. Also, since the only pronouns used to describe the parties involved are for the famous couple, it makes me wonder if maybe it was with a gay male couple (which also points to Kanye). Would make for a hell of a storyline for their crap show. They’ll probably sit on it as a last ditch Hail Mary to make money

  29. Selkie says

    Hmmm…assuming the initials are fake, the first names that popped into my head are the Beckhams. Except I don’t know if he would be described as an entertainer.

    • Katmandu says

      I laughed at the guess it was the Beckhams. I can’t possibly imagine glum stick insect Posh lowering her overpriced pants for such a thing – besides, she would break right in half, like a breadstick.