Revealed: The Liverpool club secretary at the heart of Chelsea star Ashley Cole's sex scandal

The blonde secretary alleged to have slept with Ashley Cole has been named.  Vicki Gough, 30, is pictured below arriving to work at Liverpool yesterday - arch rivals of Cole's club Chelsea.

Football fans named her in internet message boards yesterday and now now red top nationals have published her picture.

The details emerged as a fragile Cheryl Cole was spotted dining out with friends in Hollywood last night, emerging from the Katsuya restaurant flanked by bodyguards.

The Anfield club are now investigating to see if the Gough's relationship with Cole impacted on the club. A spokeswoman for Liverpool FC told MailOnline: 'We are aware of the story and will examine the facts to see if they have any bearing on the club.'

Insiders said the secretary's job could be on the line if she is deemed to have brought the Premier League club into disrepute. It is claimed she spent two nights with Ashley in a hotel rooms in Lincolnshire and Birmingham in late 2008.

Football forums also claim she had been linked to two other Premier League stars in recent months. Three weeks ago, she was allegedly spotted leaving a trendy Liverpool restaurant with a top striker.

When the allegations emerged last week, the woman attempted to keep her identity a secret over fears she would loose her job. But she was outed by Birmingham City fans, who named her on the online forum The Small Heath Alliance. She used to work for Birmingham City. One wrote that Cole's secret fling was with 'our old football sec Vicki Gough,' adding: 'I feel a new chant coming on. She works at Liverpool now. Pop in and ask for her.'

The secretary, said to be a valuable member of Liverpool FC, spoke to The Sun last week on condition of anonymity. But after her picture was published in today's Daily Star, The Sun also followed suit. In her interview with The Sun, Gough described how during her second encounter with Cole at the Radisson Hotel in Birmingham in December 2008, Ashley turned up the television so their antics couldn't be overheard by Chelsea team captain John Terry. She is the second woman to be linked to Cole in recent weeks. Topless model Sonia Wild said she received naked photographs of the England player on her mobile phone in June 2009.

Ashley publicly admitted taking the photos on his phone, but denied he had sent the lewd images to Wild.