Lat the news of the moment that most passionate the British? There war between wags. For over two and a half years, in fact, the legal battle between two of the most famous Wags in the United Kingdom has been taking place. This is the 36-year-old Coleen Rooney, wife of coach and former footballer Wayne Rooney, and the 40-year-old model Rebekah Vardy, wife of gamer Jamie Vardy, Leicester City star.
The war between Wags
Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy (Getty images)
A battle that, he writes on Guardian Emma Garland, an expert on English pop culture, represents “the perfect storm of everyday pettiness and high-profile drama.” Because she, she emphasizes, “just like reality TV stars, wags’ relationship with british tabloids is as symbiotic as it is stressful. Stories about everything – from a new haircut to taking placenta pills – fill the pages of popular newspapers. ‘ Keeping their names “always current, but also open to constant public scrutiny”.
A battle that excites the British
But how did this war that is thrilling the British start? It all started from the rumors related to Coleen Rooney and her husband who have been leaked to the tabloids over the past decade. It seems, without the consent of the interested party. Many wags in fact let indiscretions filter to stay on the crest of the wave and not be forgotten. But not her. Which instead has always cared about his own privacy. And so he devised a plan to expose the mole. He started to post false personal news on their Instagram Storiespreventing from time to time the viewing of the content to all but one of its followers.
The news published on the social network ranged from credible to absurd. He once said he was leaving for Mexico for gender change treatment. Another of being about to return to TV, yet another that the cellar of his family home had been devastated by a storm …
Wags vs Wags: what happened
After sowing false clues for some time, Coleen Rooney, who was therefore nicknamed Wagatha Christiand, he publicly told of his plan and shared what he had discovered: on October 9, 2019 he posted on Twitter the report of the investigation, claiming that the mole who passed to the tabloid press the news invent was “Rebekah Vardy’s account “, who at that time, in an advanced state of pregnancy, was on vacation. And which she obviously didn’t like, so much so filing a libel suit against colleague wag.
A war that ended in court
Between proclamations, exchanges of accusations and counter-accusations, the cause has run its course. She and she has now landed in a London courtroom after both sides refused the possibility of reaching an out-of-court settlement. Even if the trial before the court could irreparably damage the reputation of both. Which have already always been treated – by the press but also by the public – as upstarts. Rebekah Vardy grew up in a difficult family, and lived on the street at 15, while Coleen Rooney comes from a working-class family (dad boxing coach and mom cleaning lady), and both were catapulted to wealth and stardom thanks to their marriage to two. famous footballers.
A long web of intrigue
And the process, we can bet, will continue to hold sway for a long time to come. Because, according to Emma Garland, there is intrigue and intrigue in intrigue: in addition to the investigation by Wagatha Christie, in fact, there are also “shocking revelations and elements that Agatha Christie herself would have been proud to write “. So much so that, for example, according to the documents received in court, Rebekah Vardy “has advanced accusations against her press officer, Caroline Watt, while it is a mystery about a phone that” unfortunately “fell into the North Sea along with the WhatsApp messages it contained and which may have contained fundamental evidence for the case. ‘
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