Frank Lampard was making the news yesterday – though not for footballing reasons.
Lampard lashed out, after a DJ said on his London talk-show, suggested Lampard was a bad father – after it emerged Lampard’s girlfriend is now living with the couple’s two young children in a flat in Chelsea, after the couples’ recent split.
The DJ, James O’ Brien, was discussing a story that broke in the media, where Lampard’s ex-girlfriend, Elen Rives, had told an undercover journalist she was living in a small flat with her children, while Frank was living in their £8.5 million family home, and turning it into a bachelor pad. This comments were given in a London club, after Rives had consumed a glass or two of bubbly.

O’Brien – who is a dad himself – suggested any father who left their partner in that situation was “weak” and “scum”.

Lampard rung the show after being told by his sister about the comments and had a rant at the DJ live on air. He said;

““Every penny I earn, every yard I run on the football pitch is for my kids….they’re now living in a temporary flat, and it’s not a bad flat at all. I’m actually buying them a house at the moment which is of equal living standard, if not more, to mine.” So they really need an £8.5 million plus house for the three of them do they?!

The DJ’s comments sparked more fury from the Chelsea and England star, after it emerged they came on the same day of the first anniversary of his mother’s death.

Lampard told the presenter;

“The only reason I’m ringing you is because my sister is distressed. Do you think she needs to hear idiots like you? The hardest part of this whole break-up for me is not waking up with my kids every day…..Next time I’ll speak to you man to man, forget the radio show.”

O’Brien, who then went on to cheekily ask the star if he would share his thoughts on Chelsea’s Champions League semi-final – to which Lampard replied, “No, I certainly won’t” – refused to apologise when interviewed later.

He said: “I don’t really feel there is anything remotely controversial in suggesting that a man who remains in more comfortable and luxurious circumstances than his two children has quite a lot to answer for.

“Just because he is a millionaire footballer doesn’t mean he should be judged by any moral standards different from some poor soul appearing on the Jeremy Kyle show and hauled over the coals.

The DJ did however, apologise to Lampard and his family that his comments coincided with the anniversary of Pat Lampard’s death.

 

 

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