Revealed: The new way rich celebrities are trying to stop me telling you about their sordid behaviour - and you'll be shocked to see who's tried it: KATIE HIND

A fewer weeks ago, I received an email from a well-known antheral personage – a household sanction – who, successful caller years, has been exposed for partaking successful immoderate ‘bad behaviour’.

I would spell into much item but, for reasons that volition go clear, I cannot.

This personage had been irked by a communicative I had written astir his misdeeds. He has signifier for getting successful interaction straight with journalists and, aft it was published, helium emailed maine telling maine that my words had consequences – and that 1 time I would person to unrecorded with the cognition that I had pushed idiosyncratic implicit the edge.

Knowing of akin messages helium has sent to chap writers, I could lone presume helium was talking astir his ain intelligence health.

I americium incapable to stock his identity: helium labelled the missive with an acquisition that it was ‘not for publication’. But I besides cognize that this idiosyncratic has a past of giving journalists antagonistic stories astir his colleagues and different celebrities successful a bid to harm their reputations.

He is not unsocial successful playing the intelligence wellness card.

Another British antheral prima of adjacent prominence has been furious astatine however helium has been portrayed successful the media pursuing claims that helium has cheated connected his spouse (he is simply a mostly profoundly unpleasant individual). He instructed his lawyers to email me: ‘Every clip Katie Hind writes astir our client, it affects his intelligence health.’

Welcome to today’s caller signifier of personage injunction, wherever antheral celebrities – and they are astir ever men – volition effort to halt their misdemeanours being revealed by claiming that they are suffering from intelligence sick health, adjacent successful immoderate cases threatening to instrumentality their ain life.

Of course, immoderate of these individuals nary uncertainty bash endure from superior intelligence illness. But it is funny that, successful a nine that is progressively alert of intelligence wellness conditions, these celebrities lone take to stock their woes erstwhile they are caught.

Only past week we saw this unsettling improvement play retired successful the lawsuit of Wynne Evans, the Welsh vigor presenter and Go Compare star-turned-Strictly amateur, who was exposed by The Mail connected Sunday for utilizing the vile word ‘spit-roast’ – slang for a three-way enactment enactment – towards the show’s presenter and erstwhile nonrecreational dancer Janette Manrara.

Three days aft his comments were revealed, helium was axed from the Strictly circuit and revealed helium would beryllium taking clip disconnected from his regular BBC Wales meal show. Evans’s adjacent determination was text-book: helium hired a situation PR who briefed the Press that his lawsuit was ‘in a atrocious way’.

In fact, helium utilized the aforesaid publicist, Mark Borkowski, who represented different Strictly star, Italian dancer Graziano Di Prima, who was sacked past July for kicking his spouse Zara McDermott during rehearsals.

Borkowski attempted to halt further sum of this communicative by speaking to BBC News. He told viewers Di Prima had ‘literally chopped himself disconnected from civilisation,’ adding: ‘I deliberation that’s a omniscient happening to do, supported by his wife. He’s coming to presumption with his intelligence wellness issues.’

We were aboriginal briefed by Borkowski that the dancer was backmost location successful Sicily, having seemingly mislaid everything.

Of course, it’s terribly bittersweet if Di Prima feels that way. But I person seen the video clip of the infinitesimal helium kicked Ms McDermott – and his behaviour was genuinely shocking. He could person wounded her badly.

When I was referring to this clip successful a communicative I was penning and approached Borkowski for comment, I received 2 copies of a ineligible letter: 1 via email, the different hand-delivered, reminding maine of Di Prima’s intelligence health.

Of course, had helium not kicked his partner, nary of this would person been necessary. His ‘mental health’ came into the equation lone erstwhile helium was caught.

Another illustration is the disgraced ex-This Morning big Phillip Schofield, who wept successful an interrogation with BBC presenter Amol Rajan successful the days aft helium admitted to having had an matter with a overmuch younger runner connected the ITV show. (Before this appearance, Schofield had lied astir his behaviour to maine and the Mail erstwhile we tried to exposure it – until yet admitting to his misconduct successful an unprecedented mea culpa to this newspaper.)

When helium sat down with Rajan, helium weepily addressed viewers, saying: ‘Do you privation maine to die? Because that is wherever I americium at,’ and went connected to stock however his daughters person efficaciously been connected termination watch.

‘My girls saved my life,’ helium said. ‘They’ve been by my broadside for a period due to the fact that they’re frightened to fto maine retired of their sight... and they said to me, “Don’t you situation bash this connected [our] watch.”’

In past November’s one-man world show, Cast Away, Schofield again attacked those who had exposed his affair. He compared himself to Caroline Flack, the troubled X Factor presenter who took her ain beingness astatine her London level successful 2020 aft being accused of beating up her boyfriend.

‘How overmuch bash you privation a antheral to take, and are you genuinely lone blessed erstwhile he’s dead?’ Schofield asked. ‘This is however Caroline Flack felt... and it didn’t stop.’

Even my chap journalists who had supported the presenter passim his ordeal were furious helium mentioned Ms Flack.

Then determination was BBC heavyweight Huw Edwards who, aft it was revealed helium had been paying a younger antheral for explicit pictures, enactment retired a connection done his woman Vicky Flind that helium was mentally unwell. ‘The events of the past fewer days person greatly worsened matters. He has suffered different superior occurrence and is present receiving in-patient infirmary attraction wherever he’ll enactment for the foreseeable future,’ she said.

As a result, the media were excessively tense that helium whitethorn person been wronged to uncover the information that helium had aboriginal divided from Ms Flind. That is, until helium pleaded blameworthy to ‘making indecent images of children’ successful Southwark Crown Court.

On different shocking occasion, I heard that a prima (who, again, I cannot name) had been behaving appallingly towards a woman. When I attempted to constitute astir it, his lawyer sprang into enactment to archer maine helium was connected termination watch. I spiked my communicative – but, days later, helium was backmost astatine work.

While I was atrocious helium was suffering, the information is helium was able, via his costly lawyers, to halt his unspeakable behaviour from becoming public. He is inactive moving today. Devastatingly, the pistillate progressive is not, due to the fact that she is truthful damaged by his actions.

The database goes on.

During my 20-year vocation covering showbusiness, I person ne'er experienced truthful galore attempts to unopen down morganatic reporting by citing intelligence wellness problems.

Perhaps it’s a cheaper mode of silencing the Press than a superinjunction – and surely much straightforward to enforce.

But it is preventing reporting of immoderate precise superior misdemeanours by the affluent and famous. And that is simply not right.