Wednesday 17 August 2022 08:01 PM Ryan Giggs called a 'team meeting' with his family on 'dishwasher loading ... trends now

Wednesday 17 August 2022 08:01 PM Ryan Giggs called a 'team meeting' with his family on 'dishwasher loading ... trends now
Wednesday 17 August 2022 08:01 PM Ryan Giggs called a 'team meeting' with his family on 'dishwasher loading ... trends now

Wednesday 17 August 2022 08:01 PM Ryan Giggs called a 'team meeting' with his family on 'dishwasher loading ... trends now

Ryan Giggs called a 'team meeting' with his family about how to load the dishwasher after getting 'wound up' during the first coronavirus lockdown, a court today heard.

Giving evidence in his domestic assault trial, the former Manchester United footballer, 48, today said he would get 'wound up' when the dishwasher was loaded incorrectly.

At this point he was living with his now ex-girlfriend Kate Greville, who moved in during the Covid lockdown in March 2020 and who he is accused of assaulting during a row in November.

He said that during the lockdown his daughter, Libby, and her boyfriend were at the house most of the time, with his son, Zach, also staying regularly.

Asked by his barrister Chris Daw QC whether he was 'particularly keen on dishwasher loading technique', Giggs said the dishwasher was often on three or four times a day due to the number of people staying in the house.

'I would be opening the dishwasher and the tablespoons would be the wrong way round,' he said.

'It would wind me up because I would have to do it again, so I called a team meeting and just said, "Everyone, can you please put the tablespoons the right way round".

'It wasn't a big argument, it was just how I explained it.'

Ryan Giggs (pictured) called a 'team meeting' with his family about how to load the dishwasher after getting 'wound up' during the first coronavirus lockdown, a court today heard

Ryan Giggs (pictured) called a 'team meeting' with his family about how to load the dishwasher after getting 'wound up' during the first coronavirus lockdown, a court today heard

At this point he was living with his now ex-girlfriend Kate Greville (pictured), who moved in during the Covid lockdown in March 2020 and who he is accused of assaulting during a row in November

At this point he was living with his now ex-girlfriend Kate Greville (pictured), who moved in during the Covid lockdown in March 2020 and who he is accused of assaulting during a row in November

Giggs is on trial accused of assaulting his former partner, Ms Greville, as well as controlling and coercive behaviour towards her.

Ryan Giggs trial - A summary: What the jury heard on Wednesday

On Wednesday - day eight of the trial - the jury heard:

How Ryan Giggs had argued with ex-partner Kate Greville at Winter Wonderland after she accused him of 'flirting' with a 'very attractive' sports presenter during a Christmas night out; He told the court Ms Greville became 'uncomfortable' after he was paired with the unnamed TV presenter during a corporate crazy golf event for his agent's company; Giggs said Ms Greville later accused him of flirting with the sports presenter - something he denied - and they had an argument; He told the court he later saw Ms Greville 'holding hands' with a male presenter on a dancefloor, sparking him to return to the hotel alone;   The court heard the 'flirting' row, in December 2019, led to an argument at the Stafford Hotel in London, where Ms Greville claims he threw a bag at her head with a laptop on it, kicked her out of bed and ejected her naked into the corridor.  Giggs also told jurors that he and his ex-girlfriend made explicit videos together and had a 'healthy sex life' which sometimes became 'rough'; Asked by his lawyer, Chris Daw QC, about their sex life, Giggs replied: 'It was the same as always. We had a healthy sex life and sometimes it could get rough.' When asked what he did with the videos when he and Ms Greville were going through an off period, Giggs told the court that he deleted them from his phone; The court heard that Giggs and Ms Greville broke up for several weeks around Christmas 2019, but got back together and went on holiday to Dubai in February 2020; He told the court they had a 'nice holiday' until the penultimate day, when he accidentally called her by his ex-wife Stacey's name when they were on the way back to the hotel from lunch; Giggs told the court his relationship with Ms Greville was 'good' when she moved in with him during the first Covid lockdown; He said his daughter and her boyfriend were living at the house and his son would also spend time there but said everyone got on well; However he told the court he called a 'team meeting' with his ex-and his family after becoming 'sick' of 'doing the dishwasher 24/7'; Mr Giggs told jurors he did 'not know' that his ex-girlfriend's contraceptive coil had been removed and the pair were having 'unprotected sex'; The court previously heard that, in October 2020, Ms Greville told Giggs she had a smear test which showed 'cancerous cells' - instead of revealing that she had her contraceptive coil removed; Giggs told a court how Ms Greville found 'flirtatious' messages he had shared with another woman; He said Ms Greville went through his phone and found the messages, sent them to her phone and then later messaged him the photos.

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Manchester Crown Court previously heard that Ms Greville moved in with Giggs at his home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, in March 2020 when the first Covid-19 lockdown was announced.

The PR executive said last week during her evidence that lockdown was a period of 'living hell' and that there were arguments including one involving loading the dishwasher.

She told the court: 'He was making me feel like I was stupid, the way I was loading it.

'I had to do it exactly the way he wanted to do it. That's just one example of many.'

Today, Giggs said lockdown was 'a really happy time from my perspective',

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