‘Chef Giggs, naughty videos and soulmate’: Text messages heard at Ryan Giggs trial

Private messages between former Manchester United ace Ryan Giggs and his ex Kate Greville were made public for the first time today.

The texts, where he refers to himself as ‘Chef Giggsy’ and spoke about his ‘natural’ football skills, were read out at the 48-year-old former Wales manager’s trial at Manchester Crown Court.

He is accused of controlling behaviour towards Ms Greville, who he had an affair with while married to his ex-wife Stacey, between 2017 and 2020.

He is also accused of headbutting her during a row at their home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, and elbowing her sister Emma Greville in the jaw in November 2020.

Here are 6 messages the court was told they exchanged during their six-year relationship:

1) Kate sent Giggs a ‘provocative pic’ while they were both married

During cross-examination, Ms Greville was shown a series of messages from August 2017 after she sent Giggs a “picture of herself in a crop top and some underpants”.

Giggs responded: “Amazing pout too!! X” and “Takes me back to your first abs picture. I was like wow I’m in love”.

Ms Greville replied: “It was so f***ing naughty of me to send you that picture” with Giggs replying: “I know but you knew what you was doing”.

She is then said to have messaged: “I knew exactly what I was doing”.

Chris Daw QC, defending Giggs, asked Ms Greville why she had sent Giggs a “provocative picture” of herself while he was still married to ex-wife Stacey Cooke.

Ms Greville said: “I knew that showing him a picture of myself and my abs in my gym kit, he would like it.”

When asked if she thought it would cause Giggs to have “more interest” in her, she said: “I played a part in it. I have never said I didn’t, but he definitely pushed for it and I knew he was interested.

“Of course I knew what I was doing.”

2) Giggs sent a picture of handcuffs to Kate

Jurors saw another message in which Ms Greville said she wants Giggs “rough” , to which he replies “Do you? I’m scared of hurting you."

Ms Greville messaged: “I want it to hurt, not in a weird way. I want you to surprise and shock me” with Giggs sending back: “It’s a fine line.”

Ms Greville then responded: “Well we’ll just have to have fun finding that line then.”

The court heard Giggs then sent Ms Greville a picture of a paddle from luxury lingerie brand Agent Provocateur.

Ms Greville replied: “What is that?” to which Giggs messaged: “You asked me to be a bit more assertive.”

Asked by Ms Greville when they would use it, Giggs sent back a picture of handcuffs and said: “After I use these bad boys.”

Ms Greville then said: “They’re amazing… Oh my God this is brilliant.”

3) Giggs called himself ‘Chef Giggsy’

During a holiday in Dubai, Ms Greville alleged Giggs grabbed her by the wrist and threw her outside a hotel room naked with all of her belongings.

Ms Greville said she did not tell anyone at the time about the incident in 2017 and was “ashamed”.

Mr Daw read to the jury a number of messages the pair exchanged in the days that followed.

One from Ms Greville read: “I love you my gorgeous man. I had the best time as always. Safe flight, baby. I love you so much.”

Giggs messaged her the following morning saying: “I’m making scrambled eggs a la Chef Giggsy”.

Asked by Chris Daw QC, for Giggs, if she was being “genuine” during this exchange, Ms Greville said: “It was me being genuine in terms of I adored him but Ryan had this way of turning everything around on me. I would be made to feel everything was my fault.

“I felt like I had to be overly loving to him as he made me feel insecure and he would make me worry about the relationship so then I would be overly nice to him and try to overcompensate to try and make everything better again so there was no issue there with us.”

4) Giggs discusses his ‘natural ability’ at football

The court was also shown messages from January 2017 after Ms Greville moved to Dubai in which Giggs tells her: “You’re amazing Kate, the most impressive girl I have ever met. I adore you. You looked really really beautiful Monday night.”

Ms Greville then replies: “Thank you, you look gorgeous every night” to which Giggs replies: “Smooth Kate, smooth.”

He then goes on to tell her “I’m so proud of what you have achieved you should be so proud of yourself” to which Kate says: “I’m proud of myself but doesn't mean anything without you by my side.”

Giggs then tells her: “No you are the one who made the decision to move and the one who built the company from scratch. I had natural ability and made the most of it. I have never been as brave as you.

“I love you Kate, you're my soulmate and I think you’re amazing, I’m so proud of you.”

5) Giggs asked Kate to send him ‘naughty videos’

Giggs is said to have emailed Ms Greville: “Do you still have our naughty videos?”

Ms Greville replied: “Yes most of them”, to which Giggs sent back: “Send them” and “Please x”. .

She sent him “several intimate videos” and a video of herself dancing, the court heard.

Ms Greville was asked why she sent Giggs the clips just six weeks after she alleges she received the ‘blackmail’ email’ with an attachment she believed to be an intimate video.

She said: “Because we were back in a relationship… I thought he had changed and was in a different place, I didn’t think we’d get back to that place. It was the same cycle. He promised the world and I thought we were in a good place.”

6) The couple row over Giggs texting his daughter at dinner

The court heard the pair had been dining at exclusive restaurant La Petit Maison in Dubai when Giggs received a message from his daughter saying she had injured her knee.

Ms Greville claims Giggs sat on his phone in silence for 20 minutes until she asked him to put it down.

She said Giggs then stormed out the restaurant and went back to their hotel, leaving her there.

In a series of messages to her ex, Ms Greville said: “You left me in a restaurant on my own, you clearly have a massive issue with me. I expect we need to talk about it. It’s cruel beyond words.”

Giggs is said to have replied: “You can put it all on me if you want. You have my version, I have mine clearly.

“Not understanding my daughter needs me and you saying I ruined your night more than warrants it. One day if you have kids you might understand.”

The trial continues.

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