I’m A Celeb’s David Ginola ‘will never meet his grandchild’ says furious daughter as she slams former footballer
FRENCH football legend David Ginola’s once secret lovechild has claimed he doesn’t want anything to do with her baby.
Joy Pinquier, 31, claims the 57-year-old footballer had initially sent his congratulations to her when she told him in April he was set to be a grandfather.
She told The Daily Mail: “I sent a WhatsApp message letting him know he is going to be a grandfather.
“He replied, ‘Congratulations, I’m happy for you and your partner.’ But he is still refusing to see me or play a role in my life.”
She also claimed the footballer had since cut off all contact with her after she sent him a 3D ultrasound scan of his yet-to-be-born granddaughter in August.
She said the way he is treating them “is not right”, adding: “I’ve told him that he can deny my existence as much as he wishes, but my child will always have his DNA.”
The relationship between the pair has never been plain sailing, with Joy telling how the former France International player had only admitted he was her father when she was 28 years old.
She said she had first contacted him on Instagram following his stint on I’m A Celeb back in 2021.
He had denied paternity for years, following a fling with her mother Joelle while he was married to his wife Coraline Ginola who was pregnant at the time.
Joelle had to sue David for child support when he refused to take a series of DNA tests.
He had allegedly dismissed the claims he had fathered a love child as ‘an error of my youth.’
Joy told how the former Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United winger finally acknowledged her in an emotional first meeting in Marseille in 2021.
She admitted she had wept as the footballer admitted he was her father telling her: “Yes, you are a real Ginola.”
Despite his promises the pair would meet again she said David never got back in contact.
Joy, who is due to give birth in December, says she fears he is now also abandoning her unborn daughter.
She said he doesn’t seem to have an interest in her or her child.
Though she admitted she would like them to bond and be a family and can’t understand why he doesn’t appear to want that.
The footballer divorced his wife Coraline Ginola in 2016 after 25 years of marriage.
The couple share two children together, Andrea 31 and Carla 29. Since then he has been in a relationship with 35-year-old model Maeva Denat.
The couple have one daughter together, Ever, aged 6.