Kyle Walker: Manchester City and England star apologises to wife after fathering second child with model
England and Manchester City star Kyle Walker has apologised to his wife after fathering a second child with another woman.
The 33-year-old defender said he had made “idiot choices” and needed to “own up to my mistakes”.
“What I’ve done is horrible and I take full responsibility,” he told The Sun newspaper.
“The only person to blame is me. I have roles and responsibilities that I’m aware of, and I’ve made stupid choices.
“But I need to own up to my mistakes – I owe it to everyone.”
Walker, an England international, is married to Annie Kilner. The couple have three children, with a fourth on the way.
They first met when Walker was 17, and married in 2022, after a 12-year relationship.
However, in April 2020, the model and influencer Lauryn Goodman announced she had given birth, and later named Walker as the father.
Kyle Walker won the FIFA Club World Cup with Manchester City in December. Pic: PA
According to The Sun, Walker vowed he would have no further contact with Goodman, beyond any financial arrangements between them.
However, Walker is reported to have met Goodman in October 2022 having travelled to London for groin surgery.
Walker told the newspaper that Goodman informed him in “late October or early November” last year that she was pregnant with their second child.
Annie Kilner at a match in 2018. Pic: PA
Lauryn Goodman in 2016. Pic: PA
According to the newspaper, Kilner found out about Walker’s second child with Goodman when the model sent her a message on Instagram.
Walker, who won the treble with club-side Manchester City last season, has reportedly moved out of his home with Kilner, and is living in a rented flat.
“I can’t begin to think or imagine what Annie is going through. I’ve tried to ask her but there’s pain and hurt,” he told the newspaper.
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In 2020, the Manchester City footballer apologised after it was widely reported he held a party at his Cheshire home in violation of the nation’s lockdown measures.
The club promised he would be subject to an “internal disciplinary procedure”.
“I reflect on, you know, my decision-making,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live at the time.
“It was bad decisions from me at an important time for the country and the world. I take full responsibility for that but I’m moving on now.”
Walker was also given an out of court disposal – which is not a criminal charge – over an allegation that he indecently exposed himself in a bar during an incident in March last year.
Donald Trump has said he is considering “taking away” the US citizenship of actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, despite a Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits a government from doing so.
In a post on Truth Social on Saturday, the US president said: “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship.”
He also labelled O’Donnell, who has moved to Ireland, as a “threat to humanity” and said she should “remain in the wonderful country of Ireland, if they want her”.
O’Donnell responded on Instagram by posting a photograph of Mr Trump with Jeffrey Epstein.
“You are everything that is wrong with America and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it,” she wrote in the caption.
“I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland after Donald Trump secured a second term. Pic: AP
O’Donnell moved to Ireland with her 12-year-old son in January after Mr Trump had secured a second term.
She has said she’s in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship based on family lineage and that she would only return to the US “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America”.
O’Donnell and the US president have criticised each other publicly for years, in an often-bitter back-and-forth that predates Mr Trump’s move into politics.
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This is just the latest threat by the president to revoke the citizenship of someone he has disagreed with, most recently his former ally Elon Musk.
But the two situations are different as while Musk was born in South Africa, O’Donnell was born in the US and has a constitutional right to American citizenship.
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Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the Supreme Court ruled in a 1967 case that the fourteenth amendment of the constitution prevents the government from taking away citizenship.
“The president has no authority to take away the citizenship of a native-born US citizen,” he added.
“In short, we are nation founded on the principle that the people choose the government; the government cannot choose the people.”
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