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So it's nice to be able to report on one famous name dropping the gagging order that has prevented us and the rest of the media from mentioning anything about his affair with a work colleague for the last few years.
Yes, Andrew Marr has revealed that he took out a so-called super-injunction in 2008, preventing the press from reporting on his affair - which was with another journalist and ended in 2003.
He told the Daily Mail: "The injunction allowed me and my family the time and space needed to repair and heal itself at a very difficult time.
"None of this has been particularly pleasant, nor am I proud of it, but we are still together as a family and I am delighted about that."
And he also revealed that he feared he had fathered a child by his lover Alice Miles, but that a paternity test later revealed that another man was the father.
Marr said he was "embarrassed" about the situation, but maintained that he had done the right thing - despite previously criticising the use of injunctions to create privacy law through the courts rather than parliament.
He said: "I did not come into journalism to go around gagging journalists, but at the time there was a crisis in my marriage and I believed there was a young child involved.
"I also had my own family to think about, and I believed this story was nobody else's business. I still believe there was, under those circumstances, no legitimate public interest in [publication]."
What do you reckon? Was he justified in bringing the injunction? Comment below please...
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Source: http://celebrity.aol.co.uk/2011/04/26/andrew-marr-injunction/
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