Why everyone’s talking about Coleen Rooney

Footballer’s wife has accused fellow Wag Rebekah Vardy of leaking private stories

gettyimages-1061962792.jpg
Coleen Rooney investigated after many of her private Instagram posts appeared in The Sun
(Image credit: (Shaun Botterill/Getty Images))

An explosive row erupted yesterday between two footballers’ wives, as Coleen Rooney claimed that someone using the Instagram account of Jamie Vardy’s wife Rebekah had leaked stories about her to a tabloid newspaper.

The allegation and the fevered reaction created “the best day on Twitter of all time”, says The Guardian.

Subscribe to The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Sign up
Explore More

  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.