We still can't stop thinking about the U.K. soccer wives drama
Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy. Photo: Jean Catuffe/Getty Images These days, my native land of the U.S.A. and my adopted home of the U.K. are pretty similar. America has Donald Trump; England has Boris Johnson. Americans are woefully divided on impeachment; the English are woefully divided by Brexit. America has a Love Island; England has Love Island. But one thing that the U.S. does not have is the absolutely wild story currently unfolding between WAGs Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy.
Just as Wayne and Jamie were teammates, Coleen and Rebekah were friends, often watching games together when both of their husbands played for England. Still with me? Okay, here’s where it gets good: On Wednesday, Coleen dropped a bombshell to her 1.3 million Twitter followers and her 800,000 Instagram followers: “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,” she wrote.
That’s it. That’s the end of the tweet. There has not been a social media mic drop like this since Kim Kardashian West put the receipts about Taylor Swift on Snapchat. The rabid English press immediately picked up the story because it is essentially Gossip Girl, Dynasty, and Murder … She Wrote all rolled up into one gossipy mess.
Rebekah, a former nightclub promoter with just over 400,000 Instagram followers, claims that others have had access to her account over the years, so maybe someone else was spying on Coleen and leaking to the press. “I’m not being funny but I don’t need the money, what would I gain from selling stories on you?” she wrote in her denial. “I liked you a lot Coleen & I’m so upset that you have chosen to do this, especially when I’m heavily pregnant.
It’s also important to understand the place that WAGs hold in English culture. Coleen is not like Victoria Beckham, who was famous and then married a football star. Coleen is famous because she married a football star. She also enjoys a very wholesome reputation as a long-suffering wife, because Wayne keeps getting caught sleeping with other women, including a string of prostitutes.
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