MODEL Imogen Thomas said she was "stunned" today after failing to overturn a gagging order taken out by a Premier League love cheat.
The injunction - which prevents The Sun naming the married multi-millionaire footballer she had an affair with - was upheld by Mr Justice Eady.
The ex-Big Brother babe said there was "something seriously wrong with the law" after the high court judgement today, which heard arguments from lawyers representing the household name, his lover and The Sun.
The 28-year-old said: "Yet again my name and reputation have been trashed while the man I had a relationship with is able to hide."
Gagged
"What's more I can't even defend myself because I have been gagged. If this is the way privacy injunctions are supposed to work there is something seriously wrong with the law.
"I have read the judgment and I am stunned by how I am portrayed."
The judge said he granted the original injunction because he believed the footballer "may well have been set up" so that photographs could be taken of Imogen going to hotels for meetings with the star.
It was claimed that Imogen had asked the footballer for ÂĢ100,000 - and that this may have suggested the footballer was being blackmailed.
The judge said: "I hasten to add, as is obvious, that I cannot come to any final conclusion about it at this stage."
Ruling ... Justice Eady
The footballers' lawyers first began legal proceedings after The Sun revealed the hushed up affair between Imogen and the soccer star on April 14.
They also applied for a temporary injunction after learning Imogen had enlisted the help of PR guru Max Clifford.
The world famous ace - described as a "family man" made a statement saying he had met Imogen last September and on two other occasions in November and December.
The judge said: "The footballer's witness statement was to the effect that Ms Thomas had made contact with him by various text messages in March, which led him to conclude that she was at the stage of thinking of selling her story, such as it was.
"She told him by this means that she wanted, or 'needed', a payment from him of ÂĢ50,000."
The court heard the footballer agreed, with some reluctance, to meet Imogen in a hotel he was staying in to discuss her demands.
"Although he had no wish to meet, he eventually agreed because he was concerned that she would go to the newspapers if he refused," Mr Justice Eady said.
The court heard how the footballer refused to pay the lad's mag model in return for her silence, but gave her a signed football shirt instead.
A few days later, it was claimed Imogen asked to see him again, in a different hotel, and on this occasion, as she had requested, he provided her with some football tickets.
On April 12, he texted Imogen saying he did not want any further contact with her but thought better of it and messaged her the following day.
However, it was claimed that Imogen then made it clear she was looking for ÂĢ100,000 before texting to say that a journalist was outside her home.
But David Price, for Imogen, told the court that his client denied 'causing the publication' in The Sun or asking the footballer for money.