Yes, you can say anything you want about these people. The public has a right to know!
No malice? No, of course not. It bothered In Touch deeply to run the story, and it was their way of telling Becks to get help. As for whether you can print false stories because a person's infidelities are interesting to the public, well, lots of things are interesting to the public, including the contents of your medicine chest, but that doesn't mean a magazine can pay someone to say you use Preparation H to shrink those under-eye bags. It's the shark oil, I understand. That's the active ingredient.
Anyway, he won a similar case against the mag in Germany. in Touch didn't publish the story in the UK, because their libel laws are much, much stricter. Good thing for him there's an invisible data barrier that keeps the internet from penetrating the UK; unless someone sneaks in a copy of the mag through the Chunnel, his reputation's safe.
