Hello! magazine’s publishing director Sally Cartwright has said the findings in the case brought against the magazine by Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas "bear out what we have always said – that this case was not brought about privacy but about a commercial deal: money and control".

A magazine executive today denied that he was involved in a plot to deceive the Court of Appeal into lifting a ban on selling the Catherine Zeta Jones wedding pictures edition of Hello!

THE Marquesa De Varela, the sign-up supremo of the celebrity magazine world, came close to tears in the witness box yesterday as she described how she was persuaded to lie to save Hello!'s Catherine Zeta Jones wedding edition.

A key figure in the Catherine Zeta Jones wedding pictures case made a false statement because she was worried about her dependants and 200 dogs, the High Court was told today.