A married "world-famous” British actor is set to be unmasked in the US for hiring Wayne Rooney's former hooker Helen Wood .
The star is set to be named in America - although British media have been prevented from doing so after he was granted a High Court injunction in 2011.
Wood , who later appeared Celebrity Big Brother , is believed to have described her liaison in an interview in the US due to emerge today.
The 27-year-old, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, said despite appearing to be a family man he slept with her while she working as an escort.
The star was granted a gagging order on the revelations in April 2011, and it was later extended in July 2011.
Big Brother star Helen was initially referred to as BDZ in the case, before a High Court judge lifted a ban on revealing her identity.
However, Mr Justice King ruled that nothing should be published which would identify the actor.
King said at the time that he would not prohibit publication of the fact that Wood “had a $exual relationship with a leading actor and/or a world-famous celebrity, who is married and is a father.”
But the man successfully argued it would be an invasion of his privacy if his time with Wood was to emerge. He was identified only by the initials NEJ.
Granting the injunction, King concluded that the actor was "likely to establish that he has a reasonable expectation that that which he does in his private life by way of sexual encounters, albeit with a pr0stitute, should be kept private".
Wood famously had a threesome with Rooney and another girl in 2010 ahead of the South Africa World Cup.
While appearing on Big Brother in 2014 she said of the Rooney romp: “I regret it”.
The case would be the second time in recent weeks a mystery celebrity has been named in the US but an injunction in England and Wales still stands.
An injunction to prevent the naming of celebrity PJS and his spouse YMA remains in place pending the outcome of Supreme Court proceedings.