REBEKAH Vardy today joins The Sun arsenic our I’m A Celebrity columnist — and reignites her celebrated feud with her erstwhile pal, jungle contestant Coleen Rooney.
On October 9, 2019, Coleen posted an incendiary tweet accusing her friend-turned-foe Rebekah of being a “leak” down media stories.
Five years on, determination remains nary emotion mislaid betwixt the brace — with Coleen’s decision to look connected the ITV jungle show bringing their clash to the fore erstwhile again.
Today, the 42-year-old woman of Leicester City striker Jamie tells maine she is looking guardant to watching Coleen chomp down connected immoderate jungle nasties.
Asked if determination is thing particular, specified arsenic bull’s privates, ostrich bum oregon goat’s brains, Becky deadpans: “Yeah, penis. Or humble pie.”
And would, say, a camel testicle beryllium the worst happening Coleen’s ever had successful her mouth? “I don’t know. You person to look astatine her hubby for that one,” she replies.
On the nighttime of our interview, Becky and Jamie jetted disconnected to Dubai for a break. But she volition beryllium tuning successful via her laptop to spot Sunday night’s archetypal episode.
She laughs: “Absolutely, we’ll beryllium watching avidly. Everyone seems to deliberation I person this monolithic occupation with Coleen going into the jungle.
“But bash you cognize what? If you privation to instrumentality the fire, the flames are going to get higher.
"I wasn’t going to transportation connected talking astir this, I had nary volition of talking astir it, but she intelligibly can’t fto it go.
“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 pursuing successful my footsteps. I deliberation she ever wanted my life.”
Becky was connected the ITV crystal skating show backmost successful 2021.
And during her own stint connected I’m A Celeb successful 2017, she did trials including the Bushtucker eating challenge, which saw her feasting connected sheep anus, fermented egg, emu foot, vomit effect and a bull’s penis.
Presumably, she volition beryllium calling the ITV hotline connected repeat, praying mediocre Coleen volition beryllium forced to devour akin nasties.
Becky quips: “If it’s going to outgo maine immoderate much money to spot her bash a trial, perfectly not.
“I’ll lone beryllium registering to ballot connected the escaped ones, acknowledgment precise much.”
One 100 per cent, I’d accidental yes if they asked me. Get maine connected the level now.
Rebekah Vardy
When I notation that Coleen came crossed arsenic precise likeable, benignant and relatable successful her pre-show portion to camera, Becky shrugs.
Poking the bear, I adhd ex-England prima Wayne’s long-suffering wife is besides bookies’ favourite to win. It works. Off she goes again.
“Fine, if radical privation to spell and observe Coleen arsenic immoderate benignant of hero, past they request to retrieve the maltreatment I suffered disconnected the backmost of thing that wasn’t for nationalist consumption,” Becky retorts.
“It wasn’t successful the public’s involvement to bash that (the tweet). I conscionable privation she’d person conscionable turned up astatine my doorstep, oregon picked the telephone up and had that speech with me, pistillate to woman.
“But she wanted to bash it publicly. So if she wants to spell connected astir the accent induced arthritis, she’s lone got herself to blasted — she shouldn’t person done it successful the archetypal place.”
And is Coleen arsenic saccharine arsenic she seems? Not according to the pistillate who’s go truthful intrinsically linked with her implicit the past fewer years.
“Everything Coleen does is rather calculated,” she says. “I don’t accidental this to beryllium nasty, I accidental this due to the fact that it’s an opinion of mine. She likes to beryllium the victim.
“She’s been successful this manufacture for a agelong time, she knows what she’s doing, she knows however to play the game. I deliberation she’ll spell into the jungle with a crippled plan.
“She knows however the nationalist volition comprehend her. I deliberation the nationalist spot her arsenic a unfortunate — a hard-working pistillate that’s endured a batch done a man’s infidelities and each of the worldly that he’s enactment her through.”
Her ineligible squad stood up successful tribunal and said, ‘She’s specified a backstage individual’, and present this alleged backstage idiosyncratic is going connected 1 of the biggest world TV shows successful the UK. I mean, it’s ironic really.
Rebekah Vardy
On the taxable of Wayne — who trudged into the High Court daily to beryllium by his wife’s broadside — Becky doesn’t clasp back. “The champion spot to travel from Wayne’s grounds was him being likened to a ‘hot potato’.
“I wonderment if you chopped him open, if he’s each food and beans — due to the fact that he’s defo afloat of s***!”
Sitting crossed from me, Becky is intelligibly incredulous astir her rival’s determination to motion up for the jungle.
It comes aft Coleen’s defence squad tore strips disconnected Becky for her vocation choices during their overmuch publicised High Court libel enactment implicit that tweet.
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Becky said: “Coleen’s ineligible squad were precise dismissive astir my world TV past. They mocked it.
“So for her to beryllium doing the jungle now, it’s hypocrisy astatine its finest, isn’t it? I deliberation determination was ever a program for reinvention. She stayed retired of the nationalist oculus for truthful long.
“There were truthful galore stories, antagonistic stories, astir Wayne. And I deliberation she wanted to crook things astir for herself.
“We’ve gone from a idiosyncratic astir whom her ineligible squad stood up successful tribunal and said, ‘She’s specified a backstage individual’, and present this alleged backstage idiosyncratic is going connected 1 of the biggest world TV shows successful the UK. I mean, it’s ironic really.”
Five years ago, Coleen posted a agelong rant connected societal media accusing Becky of leaking stories to The Sun — thing Becky ever denied.
The resulting “Wagatha Christie” defamation lawsuit — brought by Becky — lasted for two-and-a-half months, with a justice deciding Coleen’s defence was “substantially true”.
Three years on, Becky remains defiant and says: “After the tribunal gave the judgement, I enactment retired a connection that the justice got it incorrect — and I basal by that. The justice did get it wrong, and I didn’t bash what Coleen accused maine of.”
Bitter feud
Becky insists determination are nary “hard feelings”, but it is wide she is inactive utterly fuming astir the full episode.
Or, much precisely, the aftermath — which saw her horrifically trolled portion 7 months pregnant, and led to her having cognitive behavioural therapy.
For her part, Coleen precocious spoke retired astir the extreme toll the lawsuit took connected her mentally. She adjacent claimed her reactive arthritis has been triggered by it.
Becky is besides seething astir a caller podcast featuring Coleen, connected which she made a thinly-veiled excavation astatine her erstwhile pal.
Coleen said: “Most radical can’t beryllium blessed successful their ain lives due to the fact that they are attacking different people’s lives. I couldn’t ideate doing that to anyone. You’ve got to beryllium a nasty portion of work.”
Becky’s take? “I conscionable find it ironic you tin beryllium determination and accidental that, knowing what you’ve enactment idiosyncratic through. The information of the substance is, she did bash that. She did precisely what she was talking about.
"I deliberation determination was a deep-rooted unhappiness, a batch of misdirected anger, with what was going connected with Wayne astatine the time. And, you know, unluckily for me, I was successful the crossfire of that.”
On her ain marriage, she said: “Everyone thinks Jamie is huffy astatine maine for speaking out, but that couldn’t beryllium further from the truth.
“He’s encouraging me, saying, ‘Give it to her, get the information retired there’.
"He loves it that she’s backmost getting headlines. The much instrumentality helium gets from the stands successful football, the amended helium plays.”
And connected the future, Becky said: “Let bygones beryllium bygones. You can’t clasp grudges forever.
"Two years ago, I suggested we conscionable for a java astatine Caffè Nero — and that connection inactive stands. Perhaps present it mightiness request to beryllium implicit a batch of wine, though.
“But if radical truly privation america to conscionable up earlier that, past ITV should get maine in that jungle arsenic a peculiar guest.
"What are they frightened of? Confrontation? But isn’t that what the show’s each about? It’s astir viewing figures.
“One 100 per cent, I’d accidental yes if they asked me. Get maine connected the level now.”
Over to you, ITV.
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