Rebekah Vardy: ‘Hell will freeze over before I apologise to Coleen Rooney’

Telegraph reportersMon, May 25, 2026 at 4:15 AM UTC

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Coleen Rooney publicly accused Rebekah Vardy of leaking ‘false stories’ about her private life to the media - PA

Rebekah Vardy has said “hell will freeze over” before she apologises to Coleen Rooney, the fellow football ‘WAG’ who accused her of leaking fake stories to the media.

Mrs Vardy, 44, said she has found “peace”, holds no negative feelings towards her former friend and has moved on from their “Wagatha Christie” libel case which ended in a judge finding that she was responsible for the leaks about Mrs Rooney’s private life.

“I’m living with the judgment the judge made but, still to this day, I believe she was wrong,” she said.

Mrs Vardy insisted she was “never, ever, going to apologise for something I didn’t do... Hell will freeze over before I do that”.

She added: “It’s over, it’s done, I’m not going to carry on living in the past. I’m so f---ing bored of it.”

Breaking his silence on the row that also ended his friendship with his former England team mate Wayne Rooney, Jamie Vardy said his wife was not the “villain” people thought she was.

“People thinking that Bex was a villain, it’s just a load of s but everyone close to her knows, that’s all she needs,” Vardy said.

“It was really tough seeing Bex in pain, obviously with all the crap coming her way. As a husband, the only thing you can do is be there for her.”

He added: “Becky’s a strong woman. If she wasn’t, it would definitely have broken her.”

The public fallout between the famous football couples began in 2019 when Mrs Rooney carried out a month-long “sting operation” to find out who was sending her personal Instagram posts to The Sun newspaper.

Coleen Rooney ran her own ‘sting operation’ to find out who was leaking to the press - PA

She hid her social media stories from her followers, except Mrs Vardy, and then posted false information – about seeking gender selection in Mexico for a fifth child, a flood in the basement of her Cheshire home, and plans for a TV career – to see whether they would appear in the newspaper.

In a tweet, Mrs Rooney described how she narrowed down the possible culprits, ending her post with the now famous whodunnit cliffhanger: “It’s... Rebekah Vardy’s account.”

Her tweet went viral and she was dubbed “Wagatha Christie” – a portmanteau of the detective novelist Agatha Christie and WAG (wives and girlfriends).

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Mrs Vardy denied betraying her friend, and later sued for libel. But the judge found that Mrs Vardy and her then agent, Caroline Watt, were to blame for the leaks.

Mrs Justice Steyn said in her July 2022 ruling that “significant parts of Mrs Vardy’s evidence were not credible” and some parts were “implausible” and “manifestly inconsistent” with the facts.

Four years on, Mrs Vardy has maintained her innocence but has said she considered her row with Mrs Rooney over.

“I don’t have any negative feelings towards her whatsoever,” she said.

“If I ever saw her or bump into her, people will assume it’ll be like handbags at dawn, or ‘Birkins at dawn’, whatever they want to say. ‘Wag War 4’. I’ve forgotten how many headlines have been ‘Wag War’, but my peace is too important.”

She added: “I’ve got no idea what she [Mrs Rooney] thinks of me, but I’m not bothered.”

The Vardys made the comments in their new reality television show, which ITV has promised would offer “exclusive insight into the extraordinary lives of one of the football and showbiz worlds’ most famous families”.

The first episode of The Vardys, which airs on June 2, follows their family as footballer Vardy prepares to leave his position at Leicester City after 13 years.

In the show, Mrs Vardy describes how her husband could not decide between playing for a Dutch club or moving to Italy to join US Cremonese.

“Yesterday morning we were all on holiday in Portugal, chilling, rosé, life couldn’t get any better,” she says in the episode, according to The Sun.

“And then Jamie tells me, ‘I’m going to sign for a Dutch team.’ I ask him, ‘Are you sure?’ And he seems pretty sure at that point.

“So I thought, ‘OK, that’s fine then, we’re going to Holland’ and literally, just as we’re boarding a flight home from Portugal, he changed his mind – standard Jamie.

“We landed back in the UK at 3pm, dropped the kids off, went straight back to the airport and back out on a flight to Italy.”

The show promises “no-holds-barred, intimate access to the Vardys” on their “rollercoaster journey of resilience, fierce family bonds, and the promise of a new life.”

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