Rebekah Vardy claims Coleen Rooney is ‘following in my footsteps’ on ITV show

Rebekah Vardy has claimed Coleen Rooney “always wanted my life, she’s pursuing successful my footsteps” arsenic the woman of erstwhile footballer Wayne Rooney prepares to participate the jungle connected I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!.

Vardy, who competed connected the ITV world amusement successful 2017, has been embroiled successful a high-profile libel conflict with chap footballer’s woman Rooney since 2019.

Rooney was dubbed Wagatha Christie erstwhile she accused Vardy, who is joined to Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, of leaking her backstage accusation to the property successful a viral station connected societal media.

In July 2022, a justice astatine the High Court recovered the station was “substantially true”.

“Everyone seems to deliberation I person this monolithic occupation with Coleen going into the jungle,” Vardy said successful an interrogation with the Sun newspaper.

“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 intentions of talking astir it but she intelligibly can’t fto it go.

“We’ve done a book, we’ve done a documentary, we’re going into the jungle.

“I deliberation she ever wanted my life, she’s pursuing successful my footsteps.”

Vardy said determination are “no hard feelings” towards Rooney for appearing connected the aforesaid world shows arsenic her, but “the hard feelings are inactive determination for what she caused”.

The 42-year-old said the maltreatment she endured portion Rooney allegedly “sat backmost and allowed that to hap volition ne'er beryllium forgiven, ever”.

“If radical privation to spell and observe Coleen arsenic immoderate benignant of leader for doing what she did, past they request to retrieve what she did and what I went done successful the signifier of maltreatment I suffered disconnected the backmost of thing that wasn’t for nationalist consumption,” Vardy told the Sun.

“Everything Coleen does is rather calculated,” she added.

Rooney is acceptable to look successful the jungle alongside erstwhile Strictly Come Dancing prima Oti Mabuse, ex-champion boxer Barry McGuigan, N-Dubz set subordinate Tulisa Contostavlos, Coronation Street histrion Alan Halsall, Loose Women’s Jane Moore and McFly vocalist Danny Jones.

Also heading to the Australian outback are BBC Radio 1 stars Dean McCullough and Melvin Odoom, and Loose Women prima and net property GK Barry.

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! returns connected Sunday astatine 9pm connected ITV1 and ITVX.