Married Premier League star Charlie Austin had two-month affair with 22-year-old hairdresser causing wife to send cryptic ‘Monopoly cheat’ tweet and vicious Facebook ‘review’
The Southampton striker played away with the young fitness fanatic hairdresser for two months
PREMIER League ace Charlie Austin had a fling with a hairdresser behind his wife’s back.
The 27-year-old Southampton striker’s missus Bianca, 26, accused him of cheating in a tweet this week — but later said it was over a game of Monopoly.
Now we can reveal he had a relationship with fitness fanatic hairdresser Rissy Gannon.
And she tore into 22-year-old love rival Rissy in a searing “customer review” on Facebook, in which she called her a “dirty slag”.
Dad-of-two Austin, 27, began his two month fling with Rissy after meeting her last February in a pub in Newbury, Berks, where the Premier League hitman flashed around £50 notes.
And he is said to have told her he was leaving 26-year-old Bianca.
A friend of Rissy’s said: “Charlie saw Rissy at the bar and asked her to come over.
“He asked for her number and then took all her friends on to a nightclub called Kukui.
“He was buying drinks all night — vodka, cider, cocktails.
“He was getting £50 notes out left, right and centre.
“They kissed. He wasn’t bothered about being seen.
“He didn’t give his name to start with, until someone asked to take a photo of him.
“Then somebody came up to Rissy and said that he was a footballer and he was married.”
The friend added: “Charlie asked her to go home with him, but Rissy is not that kind of girl and went home with a friend that night.
“She said, ‘No I’m not coming back’.
“He shouted at her, ‘I can get any girl I want to’ and she said, ‘Go on then’ and got into a taxi.
“But by this point he already had her number.
“He tried ringing Rissy constantly throughout the night.
“And he messaged her, saying something like, ‘Come and see me tomorrow — I’d really like to see you’.”
Rissy’s friend added: “He called again the next day, but she already had plans.
“She had half a dozen WhatsApp messages and ten missed calls from him.
“She didn’t particularly want to see him again, but was telling friends she found him attractive.”
The next day Rissy agreed, after persistent messages, to see Austin in a nearby pub.
The ex-QPR ace arranged a cab to take her to the Hungerford Arms where he was waiting.
The pair were in the bar for about three hours and were seen kissing.
Rissy’s pal added: “About three weeks later she was in Newcastle and got a text from a friend who is best friends with Charlie’s cousin.
“Charlie got in contact with his cousin to try and get hold of her to tell her he was obsessed and wanted to see her again and hadn’t been able to get her out of his head.
“He was quite smart not to contact her directly.
“Then Rissy got a phone call about a week later asking her to go to Cheltenham.
“He rang from someone else’s phone.
“She went with her sister.
“It was the first time she’d seen him in weeks.
“They picked up where they left off — he was all over her.
“She left early because she was working the next day.”
Weeks into their relationship Austin flew to Dubai with Bianca and their kids and bizarrely asked Rissy to update her Twitter so he could see what she was doing.
Her pal said: “He told her he couldn’t contact her, so asked her to update him on Twitter so he knew what she was doing.
“It was a bit weird, but he said she didn’t post enough.
“He said the trip with Bianca was booked before he met her and he had to go on it.
“But he said that, as soon as he was back, he was leaving her.
“The day after he got back he sent flowers to Rissy.
“He signed the note from ‘You know who’.”
“She then got the impression he had broken up with Bianca.”
The friend said that Austin then contacted Rissy again.
They revealed: “He asked her to come to Southampton with him.
“They went to the casino with some of his team-mates like Nathan Redmond and stayed until about 2am — but Rissy was back home in the early hours.
“He wanted her to stay.
“After that, he called her on the Saturday on a different number.
“He got a new phone so he could contact her on a regular basis.
“He tried calling her, but Rissy did not answer.”
The friend continued: “He then came to her home in Thatcham.
“He’d picked up his new Aston Martin.
“He stayed there for four or five hours that day.
“More happened than just kissing.”
The pal added: “Charlie kept saying to Rissy, ‘I’m going to leave Bianca for you’. She told him she wasn’t going to commit to anything until he had.
“He told her he was staying with his team-mate Jack Stephens and then with his mum.
“But she was told by a friend of hers that he’d got back with his wife. He lied to her.”
Weeks later, Rissy began to receive messages from Bianca, who has been with Austin nine years.
The friend added: “She was asking Rissy loads of questions like, ‘Have you only met him once’?
“She defended him and said, ‘Yeah it was only the once’. But he then threw her under the bus and said it was more than that.
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“She then sent her some crazy, abusive messages.
“She had messages on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp saying something like, ‘What makes you think its acceptable to f**k my drunk husband’?
“Someone had seen them together in the club and contacted her. Rissy didn’t respond.
“Because she blocked her, Bianca couldn’t contact Rissy.
“She was threatening to come to her work.
“About two days later she wrote a vile message on Rissy’s business Facebook, calling her a slag and falsely saying she had a STI.”
Heartbroken Bianca wrote in her customer review of Rissy: “She was meant to do my hair a year back but I ended up not going.
“A year on I’m glad I didn’t go as I’ve now come to know the sort of person she is.
“Rissy is the sort of person who sleeps with husbands who have wives and kids.
“Rissy is the sort of person who passes sexual diseases.
“She is the sort of person who drives miles across the country for an easy lay behind wives’ backs when their husbands are away for the night.
“So Rissy gets no stars on personal character, but five stars for being a complete dirty slag.”
Rissy declined to comment when approached by The Sun on Sunday.
'CHEAT' TWEET
By Rachel Dale
ANGRY Bianca sent Twitter into a frenzy when she labelled husband Charlie Austin a cheat this week.
The Sun told how she let rip online at the Premier League star as they waited to go on holiday.
She posted a message reading: “When your sat about to go on a 10 hour flight with your husband and you find out he’s been cheating.”
The tweet was signed off: “@chazaustin10 you p***k!!!”
Bianca, who has her husband’s name tattooed on her bum, then deleted the tweet and later claimed she had been referring to the footballer cheating at a game of Monopoly in the airport pre-boarding lounge.
But the couple, who tied the knot in June 2015, further fuelled speculation that their marriage was in trouble when they stopped following each other on Twitter.
The spat came days after Bianca and Austin had appeared loved-up as they walked hand-in-hand during an earlier break in Barbados.
Austin, who joined Southampton in January last year, previously played for Swindon, Burnley and QPR.
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CHARLIE Austin got to the top the hard way, playing semi-pro while working as a bricklayer.
He was released by Reading at 15 for being too small before playing for his hometown side, Hungerford Town, Berks.
He moved to Wessex League Premier Division side Poole Town in 2008 while still grafting on a building site.
In his first season he scored 46 goals in 46 appearances and narrowly missed out on a transfer to Bournemouth.
Following spells at Swindon and Burnley, Austin was signed in August 2013 by QPR, for whom he scored 45 goals in 82 games.
Southampton signed him last year for a reported £4million.
In May 2015 Austin was called up by England for a friendly against the Republic of Ireland but did not play.