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Rebekah Vardy accuses Coleen Rooney of 'wanting my life' (Image: ITV)
Five years since the explosive "Wagatha Christie" fallout, Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney’s feud shows no sign of cooling down.
With Coleen’s decision to join ITV’s I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! reigniting tensions, Rebekah, wife of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, has not held back her thoughts.
In a new interview with The Sun, the 42-year-old joked she’s looking forward to watching Coleen tackle jungle challenges, such as eating an ostrich's bum, saying: “Yeah, penis. Or humble pie.”
With a deadpan delivery, she added: “Absolutely, we’ll be watching avidly. Everyone seems to think I have this massive problem with Coleen going into the jungle. But do you know what? If you want to fan the fire, the flames are going to get higher.”
Despite claiming she had no intention of discussing the feud, Rebekah questioned Coleen’s motives, saying: “I mean, we’ve done a book, we’ve done a documentary, we’re going into the jungle. What’s next — Dancing On Ice? She’s following in my footsteps. I think she always wanted my life.”
Rebekah appeared on I’m A Celeb in 2017 (Image: ITV)
Rebekah appeared on Dancing On Ice in 2021 and endured the notorious eating trials herself during I’m A Celeb in 2017, feasting on sheep anus, fermented egg, emu foot, vomit fruit, and bull’s penis.
As for supporting Coleen, Rebekah said she’ll be selective with her votes. “If it’s going to cost me any more money to see her do a trial, absolutely not. I’ll only be registering to vote on the free ones, thanks very much.”
Reflecting on the public fallout, Rebekah stated: “If people want to go and celebrate Coleen as some sort of hero, then they need to remember the abuse I suffered off the back of something that wasn’t for public consumption. It wasn’t in the public’s interest to do that (the tweet). I just wish she’d have just turned up at my doorstep, or picked the phone up and had that conversation with me, woman to woman.
Coleen enters the jungle this Sunday (Image: ITV)
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But she wanted to do it publicly. So if she wants to go on about the stress-induced arthritis, she’s only got herself to blame — she shouldn’t have done it in the first place.”
When asked if Coleen’s public persona matches reality, Rebekah was blunt, blasting: “Everything Coleen does is quite calculated. I don’t say this to be nasty, I say this because it’s an opinion of mine.
"She likes to be the victim. She’s been in this industry for a long time, she knows what she’s doing, she knows how to play the game. I think she’ll go into the jungle with a game plan.
"She knows how the public will perceive her. I think the public see her as a victim — a hard-working woman that’s endured a lot.”
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