Devastated: Abigail Clancy leaves the set of her satellite series Great British Hairdresser in Manchester, still wearing her engagement ringAfter England's woeful World Cup performance, you might expect the overpaid 'stars' to be keeping a low profile.
Instead, players have been photographed falling out of nightclubs, smoking and - in Wayne Rooney's case - urinating in the street.
Now 6ft 7in striker Peter Crouch has taken matters to a new low after being accused of cheating on his fiancee with a teenage prostitute.
The woman, who calls herself Monica Mint, claims Crouch paid her £800 for liaisons in the back of a taxi and at an £80-a-night hotel.
Last night Crouch's spokesman was unavailable and his Premier League club, Tottenham Hotspur, refused to comment.
But a friend of his fiancee Abigail Clancy, to whom he became engaged 13 months ago, said: 'Abigail is utterly devastated. How would anyone feel at learning that?'
The couple have a home in Surrey but yesterday Miss Clancy, a 24-year-old model and TV presenter, was away in Manchester filming her satellite series Great British Hairdresser
Scandal: Crouch playing at the pre-season friendly between Tottenham Hotspur and Fiorentina at White Hart Lane on SaturdayShe and Crouch spoke by phone yesterday but the friend said Miss Clancy would not make any decision regarding their future until she had spoken with the footballer face-to-face.
And when she left filming last night she was still wearing her engagement ring. The allegations against Crouch emerged as he was dropped from the England squad on Saturday following the team's World Cup failure and Spurs appeared to be moving towards selling him.
The affair is reported to have taken place after Crouch, 29, went on a stag weekend to Madrid ahead of the wedding of school friend Ed Aitkin.
The player, who has a £6million fortune, arrived in Spain on Friday, July 16 - a year to the day after he and Miss Clancy announced their engagement.
The liaison with the 19-year-old Algerian-born prostitute is said to have taken place in the early hours of the next day after she was introduced to the footballer at the Buddha del Mar nightclub.
Engaged: Crouch and Miss Clancy on holiday in Sardinia last month He began dancing with the girl before inviting her to join him and a group of friends in a roped-off area of the club, where they were drinking from a two-litre bottle of vodka and had already apparently had a bottle of champagne.
A friend of Crouch asked how much she charged before she and the £70,000-a-week footballer got into a taxi together. He counted out 1,000 euros in cash - worth about £850 - before she performed a sex act.
They then checked in to the three-star Rafael Hotel, where Crouch insisted the room was in the girl's name - but he had to pay with his credit card.
Miss Mint told the News of the World Crouch was more pleasant than Spanish footballers she claims to have been with. 'Peter was humble and kind,' she said.
'The Spanish players are arrogant divas who treat me like a whore. I don't think Peter is good looking, but he is a nice person.'
She said she did not know he was engaged to Miss Clancy, adding: 'I can't believe he paid for sex with someone like me when he has a gorgeous woman like her at home.'
Crouch started dating Miss Clancy in 2006. They briefly split that summer when he sent her home from the World Cup in Germany after she was involved in a cocaine scandal.
She was then accused of cheating on him by rekindling a relationship with an ex-boyfriend after she had started dating Crouch.
source: dailymail
