England ace Kyle Walker’s wife Annie Kilner has served him with divorce papers.
Annie, 31, delivered the bombshell news to the ace after instructing lawyers to begin legal proceedings to end their marriage.
She is now preparing to fight for half of his £27million fortune as their relationship “turns ugly”.
Sources said they are no longer on speaking terms and the Manchester City defender, 34, is also consulting lawyers.
We understand the papers were served weeks ago as tensions rose following his love child scandal with ex-mistress Lauryn Goodman.
A source said: “Kyle was stunned when he got the papers.
“He’s spoken to Annie about them and they are discussing the next steps.
“This doesn’t necessarily mean they will divorce.
“This is as much Annie flexing her muscles as it is anything else.
“She wants Kyle to know she’s not messing about. But if this is a bluff, it may well back-fire.”
The couple separated at Christmas after the full-back was exposed for fathering a second child with Instagram influencer, Lauryn.
She revealed the truth in a text message to Annie – and the couple have been battling to save their relationship ever since.
They were childhood sweethearts and met in Sheffield as teenagers but only got married in November 2021 during an intimate ceremony at Mottram Hall in Cheshire.
The wedding took everyone by surprise – not least because of a slew of sex scandals involving the player after his £50million move to City from Spurs in 2017.
First, Ex on the Beach TV reality star Laura Brown said she and Kyle repeatedly romped in his Bentley.
Annie kicked him out of their sprawling Cheshire home but they got back together.
She gave him the boot again when he revealed Lauryn was having his baby.
He moved into an £8,000-a-month flat nearby —- and was then caught breaching Covid lockdown rules by having an orgy with two hookers.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Annie said: “What he has done to me and our children is obscene.
“I can’t begin to put it into words.
“In late March last year he was unfaithful with a reality TV star.
“I found out a month later and was broken by it.
“He begged me to take him back but by July he was at it again.
“Not even three months later and someone was pregnant. My youngest was one. Who does that?
“I don’t think I’ll ever be the same again because of what he’s done.
“I’ve tried to hate him but how can I hate the man my kids love so much?
“I knew it was always a possibility Kyle would do it again but getting someone pregnant was my worst nightmare.”
The couple miraculously stayed together against all the odds and Kyle proposed with a £250,000 ring.
They wed in secret in front of a handful of guests but less than a year later he cheated on her with Lauryn once again.
The Instagram influencer, 34, fell pregnant after they met in London whilst he was waiting for groin surgery ahead of the World Cup in Qatar in 2022.
She gave birth to a baby girl, Kinara, in July last year – as Kyle begged her not to reveal the truth to Annie.
He even considered quitting Manchester City for Bayern Munich in a desperate bid to avoid the looming scandal.
But on December 27, as he played for City in a 3-1 win against Everton at Goodison Park, Annie’s phone lit up with a message.
It read: “Hey it’s Lauryn. I just wanted to quickly tell you that Kyle is the father of our daughter.”
Annie, who was heavily pregnant at the time with the couple’s fourth son, announced their shock split two weeks later.
Kyle moved into a rented mansion close to their Cheshire home and in an exclusive interview with The Sun spoke of his shame.
He admitted: “What I’ve done is horrible and I take full responsibility.
“I made idiot choices and idiot decisions.”
Annie gave birth to their fourth son Rezon in April with Kyle at her bedside.
But behind the scenes, the couple were fighting a losing battle to save the marriage amid furious rows.
Pictures of them together at the Euros this Summer illustrated the huge gulf between them.
Kyle returned to the UK with his Three Lions teammates in the wake of a 2-1 defeat to Spain in the final.
But hours later he was appearing in court for a two-day legal battle over money with Lauryn.
He and Annie holidayed in Turkey and at their luxury chalet on the Welsh coast as they discussed the future.
They lurched between staying together and divorce before the judge overseeing his financial remedy hearing issued a damning judgement.
He concluded that Lauryn had used the player as an “open ended chequebook” and preyed upon his desire to keep the paternity of Kinara a secret.
Friends of the couple said the legal battle had “galvanised” them against a common foe.
But Annie hit the roof after the court papers revealed for the first time the vast sums Kyle was shelling out to Lauryn.
Kyle had increased her housing budget from £1.85million to £2.4million after she threatened to move within 10 minutes of his Cheshire home.
He paid £48,000 for fitted wardrobes and a media screen, £75,000 for a furnishing fund, £9115 for 14 CCTV cameras, £5,650 for an alarm and £52,164 for curtains and a blind.
Fuming Annie demanded half of his fortune as part of a “financial divorce” in a bid to secure her and their kids’ future.
