By Rebecca Evans and Sarah Tetteh 30/01/2010
Disgraced Terry started the affair with Bridge’s girlfriend even though the two England defenders had become the best of friends at Chelsea.
Those close to Bridge yesterday said he was “in bits” after learning married dad of two Terry had been sleeping with French model Vanessa Perroncel.
One insider said the behaviour of Terry, whose desperate legal effort to stop the Mirror reporting the fling failed yesterday, had been despicable.
The source added: “It doesn’t get much lower than this. To cheat on your wife with your best mate’s partner is just disgraceful. Terry is a liar and a cheat. He should be ashamed of himself.”
Bridge became one of England skipper Terry’s closest colleagues after signing for Chelsea in 2003. The two men lived within a few miles of each other in Surrey. They shared a love of dog and horse racing and Bridge was invited to Terry’s stag night.
Vanessa and Bridge, 29, were guests at Terry’s £1million wedding to Toni Poole at Blenheim Palace in June 2007. Toni and Vanessa also became great mates – a friendship cemented when they found they were pregnant at the same time.
An insider said: “Toni is heartbroken. To discover her husband has been cheating with a friend is unforgivable. No one can believe how deep the betrayal has gone. Toni and Nessa were very close.
“And Bridge totally adored Nessa. No doubt he is devastated.
“It appears he has lost the girl he loved and the man he called a friend.”
Bridge, who transferred to Manchester City a year ago, split with Vanessa last month. They have a son aged three.
At the time of the break-up Vanessa said: “It is amicable. I’m positive that no one else is involved.” Terry, 29, certainly did his utmost to keep the affair under wraps.
He even got 33-year-old Vanessa to sign a confidentiality contract and paid her a £1 “fee” to make it legally binding.
But rumours began to circulate and when newspapers prepared to reveal how Terry had done the dirty on his mate, the £170,000-a-week Chelsea captain used the law to gag them.
He claimed the stories would breach his human rights by intruding on his privacy and last week a judge granted him an injunction banning publication.
But yesterday the High Court judge who agreed the injunction overturned it, saying that Terry was only interested in protecting his lucrative sponsorship deals.Mr Justice Tugendhat said: “The real concern of the applicant is the effect of publication upon sponsorship business.”
The judge said he did not believe the ban was needed to “prevent personal distress” as Terry had a “very robust personality”.
He added that the plea for a ban was based on business interests and not how reporting of the affair would affect the other “interested parties” – a reference to Bridge, Vanessa and Toni.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/01/30/wayne-bridge-in-bits-at-john-terry-betrayal-115875-22005310/Says it all really......
