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Lauryn Goodman breaks her silence after attending England game
By Kirsten Murray For Mailonline and Katie Hind
13:02 21 Jun 2024, updated 14:06 21 Jun 2024
Lauryn Goodman has broken her silence on the WAG war after attending the England vs Denmark game in Frankfurt on Thursday evening.
The influencer, 33, cheered on the father of her two children, Kyle Walker, while the England vice captain’s wife Annie Kilner also supported from the stands.
Lauryn became embroiled in a paternity scandal earlier this year when it emerged the footballer, 34, had fathered her ten-month-old daughter whilst being married to Annie, 32.
And now she has defended her choice to take her son Kairo, four, to the match as she took to her Instagram story to share that he had a great day.
She wrote: ‘@kairowalker honestly had the best day. That’s all that matters’.
Lauryn received support from her followers for taking her son to the match, as one sent a direct message which read: ‘So so proud of you for going to that match… he’s the one who’s done wrong not you…wish I was as strong as you’.
As well as sharing both Kairo and a ten-month-old daughter with Lauryn, Kyle is also father to sons Rezon, two months, Roman, 11, Riaan, seven, and Reign, five, who he shares with Annie.
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And while Annie and her brood and Lauryn were both present at the match, they were luckily sat at opposite sides of the pitch.
Annie sat with other WAGs to support her husband, while Lauryn sat in a separate stand with her grandfather.
Shortly before the game, she was seen outside the Deutsche Bank Park stadium with Kairo who wore an England replica top with his father’s number on the back, along with the word ‘Daddy’.
It will have been the closest he and Kyle have been for some months.
Lauryn flew into Frankfurt under her own steam on Wednesday morning.
Annie, who is flying in and out for the games rather than stay in Germany, flew into Frankfurt with some of her fellow footballers’ partners on a £35,000 private jet from Manchester airport.
She was accompanied by her three oldest sons, as she was for the Serbia game on Sunday.
The two women have been at loggerheads for several years after the Manchester City star had a relationship with Lauryn while he was with Annie and it emerged that Kairo was his son.
In December, the fallout was reignited when Annie learned that Kyle had fathered another of Lauryn’s children, a baby girl.
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After yesterday’s game, Walker went over to Annie and their children.
But far from a cheerful reconciliation, it seemed neither were in the mood to play happy families.
One onlooker said: ‘It looked a little tense between them.
‘While the result wasn’t ideal, you’d have thought they would have been a little more joyous, at least for their children.’
Among the more cheerful looking WAGs were goalkeeper Jordan Pickford’s wife Megan Davison and Aine Kennedy, who is dating Conor Gallagher.
Meanwhile Lauryn is said to be in talks to appear in the next series of E4’s Celebs Go Dating following her fling with Kyle.
She is reportedly being inundated with TV offers due to fans being curious ‘what all the fuss is about’ and is already filming a reality show about WAGs.
A friend of Lauryn’s told MailOnline: ‘Lauryn has had a lot of TV offers that she is considering and she wants to draw a line under this circus with Kyle’.
‘There is a keen interest into Lauryn as a person herself, seeing as Kyle kept returning back to her, people want to see what the fuss is all about’.
Before the tournament kicked off, Kyle was back in a £20,000 per month mansion he rented nearby when their marriage initially hit the rocks earlier this year.
A spokesperson for Annie and Kyle said: ‘Annie will be at the Euros supporting Kyle and the whole team, as she and the children always have.
‘There are currently no plans in place for travel or accommodation, but she will prioritise the well-being of her young family to ensure a smooth experience.
‘Comments about her and Kyle’s marriage are purely speculative. The couple respectfully requests privacy as they continue to navigate their personal matters, always keeping their children at the forefront of their minds.’
Lauryn had a brief fling with Kyle in 2019 before they had a son the following year called Kairo. He was conceived while Kyle was temporarily split from Annie, then his long term girlfriend.
Last week, Kyle hit back at claims he invited his ex Lauryn to watch England’s third Euro 2024 group match.
Sources previously claimed the reality star had already booked tickets to see the Three Lions’ third group match against Slovenia later this month.
However, a source close to Kyle has told MailOnline that Lauryn was never invited to attend the match, and he is solely focused on helping England to secure their first win of the tournament.
The source said: ‘Kyle is locked down in the England camp and ready to play for the country. He wants to do the fans proud especially now he has been named Vice Captain.
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‘Annie is bringing the boys to the game, they have supported Kyle in his career since day one and are looking forward to watching and joining him pitch side.
‘Kyle categorically did not invite Lauryn or any of her family to the match. Her narrative is simply untrue.’
They added: ‘Of course she’s free to enjoy the matches, as are the rest of the country but it really has nothing to do with Kyle or his family.’
Lauryn previously said she was the one who wanted everything to be public about Kyle being the father of her second child.
‘I didn’t want them [Kyle and Annie] to split up or cause harm, but it had to be out in the open for all of our sakes,’ she said then, explaining that she had Facetimed with Annie in December last year and shown her their daughter’s DNA test.
Lauryn claimed she and Kyle had been in a long relationship and Kyle had been leading a double life, playing the two women off against each other.
Kyle’s response, in an interview with The Sun on Sunday, was to call Annie his soul mate and desperately ask her to forgive him. He spoke sorrowfully of ‘idiot choices and idiot decisions’.
He also claimed that he had only slept with Lauryn twice with both infidelities resulting in a baby. He said: ‘There was no relationship. That is something Lauryn could never say.
‘We’ve never been out for food, we’ve never been to the cinema. To have a relationship with someone… would she even know how many sugars I have in my coffee, if I have sugars? She couldn’t tell you.’