{"id":391319,"date":"2026-04-10T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391319\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:38:10","slug":"prince-harrys-cringeworthy-mr-mischief-messages-and-7-other-times-celebrities-have-had-embarrassing-texts-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391319\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry\u2019s cringeworthy Mr Mischief messages \u2013 and 7 other times celebrities have had embarrassing texts leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">From Prince Harry to Rebekah Vardy, Kirsty Blake Knox looks back at stars\u2019 leaked phone exchanges and asks a PR expert why we find them so intriguing<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"From left: Olivia Wilde, Ryan Reynolds, Prince Harry, Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney all had private text messages revealed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IF text messages 1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">From left: Olivia Wilde, Ryan Reynolds, Prince Harry, Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney all had private text messages revealed<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There is immediate intrigue and an intense pang of second-hand embarrassment when a celebrity\u2019s clearly private messages come to light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThese messages are addictive because they give us something that we are not meant to see,\u201d Head of careers at PR agency The Communications Clinic Sarah Geraghty says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Prince Harry to Rebekah Vardy, Kirsty Blake Knox looks back at stars\u2019 leaked phone exchanges and asks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77748,93,61,60,898,128197,137286],"class_list":["post-391319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-daily-features","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-shp","tag-signature-enjoy-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}