From Prince Harry to Rebekah Vardy, Kirsty Blake Knox looks back at stars’ leaked phone exchanges and asks a PR expert why we find them so intriguing

From left: Olivia Wilde, Ryan Reynolds, Prince Harry, Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney all had private text messages revealed
There is immediate intrigue and an intense pang of second-hand embarrassment when a celebrity’s clearly private messages come to light.
“These messages are addictive because they give us something that we are not meant to see,” Head of careers at PR agency The Communications Clinic Sarah Geraghty says.
