CAUGHT OUT

SHAKIRA reportedly turned detective to rumble Gerard Pique’s alleged affair before they split in June last year.

But she also recruited a team of professionals to snoop on the former Barcelona star, it has been claimed. The Colombian popstar is said to have hired a private investigator to trail Pique to confirm her suspicions.

The super sleuth spotted the Spaniard frequenting the nightclub where his now girlfriend Clara Chia Marti worked, Marca reports.

According to Spanish TV show El Gordo y la Flaca, the detectives even obtained photos of the pair getting cosy.

But Shakira was forced to pay an agency to keep the damning photos private after the PI firm flogged them to paparazzi.

She was reportedly rocked by the double betrayal after she was warned the compromising snaps were being sold off.

Photographer Jordi Martin claimed she was desperate to keep a lid on the news as she prepared for the split.

He told the chat show: “I am told that Pique was smitten from the first time he saw her [Clara] and they exchanged phone numbers.

“I started to find out who she is… they told me that she is a stewardess at night in a disco that Pique frequents a lot.

“Shakira did not want the news to come out. Gerard is the one who has forced it to come out.”

It is thought that the 45-year-old singer was getting her ducks in a row before the inevitable bitter court showdown over custody of their children and their £12m mansion.

Rumours have also swirled that Shakira first smelt a rat after taking a look in her fridge at their five-storey Barcelona property.

The songstress is said to have returned home from a period of travelling to find a jar of her strawberry jam had been eaten.

It’s been claimed that Pique follows a strict diet and would not have tucked into the jam – and neither would her children.

The She Wolf singer is then said to have come to the conclusion that someone else – more specifically another woman – had been in her home, and her fridge.

She also reportedly noticed Clara lurking behind Pique during a Zoom interview at their family home in August 2021. – The Sun.