Rebekah Vardy FINALLY vows to maneuver on from Coleen Rooney feud – however not earlier than sharing ‘one final thing’ about WAG rival
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Rebekah Vardy has finally vowed to move on from her feud with Coleen Rooney, going as far as to praise her for her Jungle stint.
On Sunday night, Coleen finished runner-up in the I’m A Celebrity final, narrowly pipped to the post by McFly star Danny Jones.
Addressing her WAG rival in her daily video column for The Sun, Rebekah offered her thoughts on the series, praising The King Of The Jungle and third place campmate Revered Richard Coles.
In a shock twist, Rebekah then heaped praise on her nemesis, saying: ‘Coleen finished second. Coleen has had a fab series. She has really done well and made herself proud.
‘Yes, I know you’re all waiting for me to say otherwise, I’m sorry to disappoint, but it’s just not happening.’
Vowing it would be the last thing she said about Coleen, she concluded: ‘It’s really, really time to move on and end the year with a positive.’
Rebekah Vardy has finally vowed to move on from her feud with Coleen Rooney, going as far as to praise her for her stint on I’m A Celebrity
Coleen made a veiled jibe at Rebekah during Sunday’s final of I’m A Celebrity as she claimed she was ‘good at sniffing things out’ and can ‘weigh people up well’
Rebekah’s shock comments are a U-turn for the mother-of-six who has made several disparaging remarks about her former friend relating to her time in the Jungle.
Since Coleen entered the jungle, Rebekah has made no secret of what she thinks about her nemesis, branding her ‘dull’ while also wanting her to eat a bull’s penis.
Rebekah also claimed her rival Coleen was ‘getting it easy’ in the I’m A Celebrity camp, in comparison to her own stint on the ITV show.
The star shared that this year’s line up were being rewarded with luxuries far too early in the series, insisting she ‘hardly got any food’ during her first week in the camp.
She said: ‘This year’s campmates are having it so easy compared to when I did the show. We hardly got any food for the first week, let alone home comforts.
‘I do not begrudge them getting their luxuries so early because you need that in the jungle to keep you going. But ITV are sure not making them work for it. Cranky campmates make for the best TV.’
Yet in the end, it seems Coleen had the last laugh as she finished in second place.
In comparison, Rebekah was the third campmate to be voted out of her season in 2017.
Coleen was famously dubbed Wagatha Christie after deducing that stories about her were being leaked to The Sun newspaper by… Rebekah Vardy’s account. Rebekah then attempted to sue her for libel but lost the case (pictured at the trial in 2022)
During the live final, Coleen appeared to make a veiled jibe at Rebekah as she spoke to Ant and Dec about her time in the Jungle, with talk quickly turning to her detective skills.
Coleen was famously dubbed Wagatha Christie after deducing that stories about her were being leaked to The Sun newspaper by… Rebekah Vardy’s account.
Discussing her sleuthing skills during the final, Declan Donnelly mused: We did try pulling the wool over your eyes with a few little tricks but you always seemed to sniff us out… she’s always one step ahead of us.’
Ant McPartlin added: ‘She’s good at this… have you always had that instinct?’
Flashing a knowing smile, Coleen alluded to her Wagatha Christie name as she replied: ‘Yeah I have, I’m quite good at sniffing things out!’
Raising her eyebrows, she continued: Yeah, I can weigh people up well…’
During her time in the Jungle, Coleen clocked that Danny Jones had lied about spotting a koala in a bid to keep them distracted while he was on a secret mission.
The mother-of-four was also the first one to work out that Maura Higgins, Revered Richard Coles and Dean McCullough were lying about living in squalor in The Junkyard.
It’s been five years since the start of the Wagatha Christie case – the surreal, undeniably petty, yet irresistible legal soap opera that captivated the nation
Having confronted the trio, Dean was quick to mention her famous nickname, exclaiming: ‘Wagatha Christie strikes again!’
It’s been five years since the start of the Wagatha Christie case – the surreal, undeniably petty, yet irresistible legal soap opera that captivated the nation.
Few could have predicted a row that began with a single Instagram post could have metamorphosed into one of the 21st century’s most extraordinary celebrity sagas.
Rebekah originally sued Coleen for libel over claims she had been leaking stories to the Press, but Coleen would go on to triumph over her bitter foe after a judge declared in 2022 that her claim was ‘substantially true’.
The ruling would not be the end of this modern version of Jarndyce v Jarndyce (the interminable legal case imagined by Charles Dickens) with a dispute over legal costs dubbed ‘WAG War II’ leading to Coleen netting another victory.
Last month, Rebekah launched an appeal against having to pay Coleen up to £1.8million in legal costs.
Barristers for the women battled in the High Court over how much Rebekah should pay in costs after losing a libel action in 2022 and her legal team confirmed she is challenging the judge’s ruling.
In a three-day hearing, lawyers for Rebekah – the wife of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy – argued that the sum should be reduced due to what they said was ‘serious misconduct’ by Coleen’s legal team.
But Senior Costs Judge Andrew Gordon-Saker found ‘on balance and, I have to say, only just’, that Coleen’s legal team had not committed wrongdoing, and therefore it was ‘not an appropriate case’ to reduce the amount of money that Rebekah should pay.
Court documents show that Rebekah launched an appeal bid, which her lawyers Kingsley Napley confirmed related to the misconduct ruling.