This U.K. Soccer Wife Drama Is Twitter's New Obsession
If you haven’t been keeping up with the wives of the U.K.’s soccer stars (Victoria Beckham excluded), you’ve been missing out on a hotbed of drama.
TV personality and wife of footballer Wayne Rooney, Coleen Rooney, deserves her own detective series based on the sleuthing she’s done in the past five months. On Wednesday, Rooney shared a lengthy post regarding a social media investigation she conducted due to years of leaked information.
“For a few years now someone who I trusted to follow me on my personal Instagram account has been consistently informing the Sun newspaper of my private posts and stories. There has been so much information given to them about me, my friends and my family – all without my permission or knowledge,” she began.
Frustrated, and driven to follow a hunch, Rooney “blocked everyone from viewing my Instagram stories except one account.”
“Over the past five months I have posted a series of false stories to see if they made their way into the Sun newspaper,” she revealed. “And you know what, they did! The story about gender selection in Mexico, the story about returning to TV and then the latest story about basement flooding in my new house.”
“It’s been tough keeping it to myself and not making any comment at all, especially when the stories have been leaked, however I had to. Now I know from certain which account/individual it’s come from," she cotninued.
“I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them.”
And then, for the final, beautiful cherry atop a riveting social media sundae, Rooney wrote, “It’s ………. Rebekah Vardy’s account.”
This has been a burden in my life for a few years now and finally I have got to the bottom of it...... pic.twitter.com/0YqJAoXuK1
— Coleen Rooney (@ColeenRoo) October 9, 2019
Rebekah, you see, is the wife of soccer player James Vardy.
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Naturally, Vardy denied all involvement, and expressed her anger toward Rooney for not only outing her, but doing so while she is “heavily pregnant.”
“Over the years various people have had access to my Insta and just this week I found I was following people I didn’t know and have never followed myself. I’m not being funny but I don’t need the money, what would I gain from selling stories on you? I liked you a lot Coleen and I’m so upset that you have chosen to do this, especially when I’m heavily pregnant. I’m disgusted that I’m even having to deny this,” she shared in a statement.
Regardless of whether Rooney has fairly implicated Vardy, Twitter users are enamored with the platform’s new amateur detective and have even coined a nickname for her: WAGatha Christie.
Welcoming in a fellow queen of crime #WagathaChristie pic.twitter.com/ec9BpyT5ZA
— Agatha Christie (@agathachristie) October 9, 2019
Wiki right on top of #WagathaChristie story pic.twitter.com/UkxT4IPpwZ
— michele filon 🐝 (@michelefilon) October 9, 2019
It’s.............
⚪️Britney bitch
⚪️ Gonna be me
🔘 Rebekah Vardy’s account— AAARGGHHHcid pop (@accid_pop) October 9, 2019
coleen rooney posting fake stories to insta only to reveal to rebekah vardy it was all a trap pic.twitter.com/vZJHpwWzxa
— David Mack (@davidmackau) October 9, 2019
It was…………………….. Rebekah Vardy's account. pic.twitter.com/lUSqzb2tin
— Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) October 9, 2019
Your next print?? pic.twitter.com/LzB5Yu81be
— Shaun McKinlay (@ShaunMcKinlay1) October 9, 2019
This is the juiciest tweet I’ve read in years. I’m sorry this happened to you but you need to be put in charge of Interpol
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 9, 2019
Tell Rebekah Vardy. I want her to know it was her account pic.twitter.com/PbMvUVPXmi
— Ross McCafferty (@RossMcCaff) October 9, 2019
Looks like it’s ………. time for Reese Witherspoon to give this tale the Big Little Lies treatment.