David and Victoria Beckham received a High Court apology from their former nanny, Abbie Gibson, today over her disclosure of private and confidential information about them following her resignation. Solicitor Gerrard Tyrrell said Gibson "has unconditionally apologised to David and Victoria Beckham and their family for breaching her duties of confidence" and said today's proceedings resulted from the publication of a newspaper article in April 2005, captioned 'Beckhams behind closed doors'. "Between May 2003 and March 2005, Ms Gibson was employed as the nanny to David and Victoria Beckhams' children. After she resigned from their employment, she gave an interview to the News of the World. In this interview, she disclosed private and confidential information about the Beckhams and their family." News of the World used this information as the basis for the article published on April 24, 2005.The solicitor also told the judge that, on July 10, 2005, The People newspaper published an article entitled Exclusive: Beckham's Hate Calls To Nanny, which falsely stated that David Beckham had made a number of insulting and threatening telephone calls to Gibson. He added: "The People have already publicly apologised for making this false and defamatory claim and have paid damages to David Beckham. Ms Gibson is happy to confirm that David Beckham did not at any stage make any such telephone calls to her. She apologises if anything she said to The People gave them a false impression that such calls had been made."
source: DailyMail
