Television personality Ant Middleton is accused of breaching a confidentiality contract with the Ministry of Defence by sharing “extremely sensitive” details of his time in the special forces on a podcast, the High Court has been told.

The department claims that Mr Middleton, who previously presented Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins, breached the contract in an episode of the Mike Drop podcast published on YouTube in July, titled “Exposing The Quiet Split Between UK And US Forces”.

Barristers for the MoD told a hearing on Thursday that Mr Middleton signed an agreement upon joining the special forces in 2008, which prevents him from disclosing information about the work of UK special forces, even if the information is not accurate.

They successfully asked a judge to issue a temporar

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