Shakespeare it ain’t... Giggs and lover swapped X-rated verse
Their smutty rhymes read out at trial ... and his mum was in court!
RYAN Giggs wrote toe-curling love poetry for his ex-girlfriend, a court heard yesterday.
A verse about his manhood was contained in a series of cringeworthy messages exchanged between the former Manchester United footballer and Kate Greville, 38.
With Giggs’s 66- year- old mother Lynne listening in the public gallery, the sometimes X-rated texts were read to the jury on day nine of his trial.
In the rhyme, Giggs, 48, claimed he fell in love with Miss Greville – with whom he started an affair while married to his now ex-wife Stacey – ‘at first sight’. He wrote that her ‘beautiful eyes’ made him shiver and that ‘pulling’ her was his ‘greatest ever coo’ [sic].
Giggs said that pictures the PR executive sent him of her stomach made him feel ‘funny down there’. He is of headbutting Miss Greville and controlling and coercing her during their turbulent six-year relationship.
But Manchester Crown Court heard the father of two sent the poem on August 31, 2017 – the day the coercive control is alleged to have started.
It was sent in response to a poem from Miss Greville in which she wrote: ‘You make my heart flutter because you are a nutter. Every day you do me proud not just because you are well endowed.’
In the WhatsApp messages, Miss Greville referred to the former Wales manager as ‘Giggsy-baby’, while Giggs called her ‘baby cakes’. He also gushed that he loved her more than ‘all my Premier League appearances’.
Giggs – who earlier this week told the jury he and his girlfriend had even rowed about how to stack their dishwasher – added: ‘You’re a painting, supermodel, thoroughbred, an absolute dream...’
In one message, in June 2017, Miss Greville talked about the couple getting old together and ‘still laughing’ when they were 70. In another, he claimed the ‘ best place in the world’ was not ‘in Bali or the Caribbean’ or ‘playing golf with my mates’ but in bed, with Miss Greville snuggled in the ‘lit accused tle crevice under my chin... legs interlinked’. She replied: ‘That’s my favourite place in the world.’
Giggs laughed when asked by his barrister Chris Daw QC if he knew what the word impetuous meant. Giggs replied: ‘I’m not too sure.’ He had been asked if he was impetuous by prosecutor Peter Wright QC the previous day.
Mr Wright accused Giggs of lying to police over allegations he ‘flipped’ and headbutted his ex-girlfriend during an argument at his £1.7million home in Worsley, Manchester, on November 1, 2020, when she learned he had been cheating with at least eight women.
The prosecutor asked Giggs about discrepancies between a prepared statement he gave to police the day after his arrest and live evidence heard in a 999 call made by Miss Greville’s sister, Emma, and on bodycam footage captured by officers sent to investigate the alleged assault.
Mr Wright questioned why, when Emma, 26, called police, and Giggs heard her telling the operator about the alleged headbutt, he did not say it was ‘rubbish’ or an ‘accident’ as he later claimed. ‘I don’t know,’ Giggs said. Giggs also denied trying to ‘ emotionally blackmail’ her and said he couldn’t explain why he had used his daughter Libby, 19, as a ‘lever’ to try to stop her calling police on the night of the alleged attack.
He denies assaulting Kate Greville occasioning actual bodily harm, and controlling and coercive behaviour towards her. He also denies common assault on Emma Greville. The trial continues.
‘You’re an absolute dream’