6 days Ago By Rebecca Fisher
Rebekah Vardy has accused Coleen Rooney of wanting her life as she prepares to take on the I’m A Celebrity jungle. The wife of Leicester City star Jamie Vardy brought a libel case against 38-year-old Mrs Rooney, wife of former Manchester United player Wayne, after the latter accused her former friend of leaking stories to a tabloid newspaper. Mrs Vardy lost the case in 2022.
Dubbed the Wagatha Christie case , the legal battle has seen the pair embroiled in an ongoing feud since 2019, with Vardy now lighting the fires once again. Vardy, who competed on the reality show in 2017, has accused her rival of ‘wanting my life’ as she was announced as the Sun’s new I’m A Celeb columnist. ‘Everyone seems to think I have this massive problem with Coleen going into the jungle,’ Vardy told the publication.
‘But do you know what? If you want to fan the fire, the flames are going to get higher.’ ‘I wasn’t going to carry on talking about this, I had no intentions of talking about it but she clearly can’t let it go.’ ‘We’ve done a book, we’ve done a documentary, we’re going into the jungle.
‘I think she always wanted my life, she’s following in my footsteps.’ The 42-year-old said the abuse she endured while Rooney allegedly ‘sat back and allowed that to happen will never be forgiven, ever.’ ‘If people want to go and celebrate Coleen as some sort of hero for doing what she did, then they need to remember what she did and what I went through in the form of abuse I suffered off the back of something that wasn’t for public consumption.
’ ‘Everything Coleen does is quite calculated,’ she added. Rooney is set to appear in the jungle alongside former Strictly Come Dancing star Oti Mabuse, ex-champion boxer Barry McGuigan, N-Dubz band member Tulisa Contostavlos, Coronation Street actor Alan Halsall, Loose Women’s Jane Moore and McFly singer Danny Jones..
