So Coleen is in the jungle, Becky lives like a queen in Dubai and the Wagatha Christie saga that has entertained us so much since October 9, 2019 is back in the news.
I’m a Celebrity starts on Sunday and one of the big questions it may answer will be whether Ms Rooney has moved on from the experience of being dragged to court by Becky Vardy over that famous “It’s… Rebekah Vardy’s account” tweet.
I had a part to play in the drama that unfolded and I can say with confidence that neither woman will ever forgive the other for the events that brought them to court in the summer of 2022.
Indeed, legal action over Coleen’s costs, which Becky, as the losing party, must pay, continues. Becky says the costs are ridiculously high; Coleen says that’s because it made the case so complicated. “It’s your disaster” is the attitude.
A lively dislike still smolders, grudges are held and, in Coleen’s own inimitable words, she remains “little” about the painful way it unfolded.
ITVX is now streaming the three-part Disney+ documentary, made just after the case concluded with Becky losing her defamation lawsuit.
In it, Coleen, steadily and calmly, for almost two and a half hours, explains how she came to suspect that a ‘poacher’ was selling information from her private Instagram to The Sun, and how she set up a trap to catch her ‘snitch’ . .
It is remarkable to see how the matter, which was treated by the media and the public as an absurd entertainment spectacle, turned out to be very serious and very traumatic for her. She cries as she remembers the toll the case took on her, which she was warned she would probably lose at some point, and how her father said she was “no longer herself.”
I had a part to play in the drama, writes ALISON BOSHOFF, and I can safely say that neither woman will ever forgive the other for the events that brought them to court in the summer of 2022 (pictured: Rebekah Vardy arrives at court).
I’m A Celebrity starts on Sunday and one of the big questions it may answer will be whether Mrs Rooney (pictured) has moved on from the experience of being dragged into court.
I’m in the documentary, talking about the day, October 10, when Becky Vardy called me from her vacation in Dubai and made the famous comment that “arguing with Coleen is like arguing with a pigeon.” You can tell him you’re right and he’s wrong, but he’ll still shit in your hair.’
It was such an extraordinary phrase that I wasn’t quite sure I had heard it correctly and couldn’t imagine how I would write the word dove in shorthand. But it was typical of Becky, as combative as she is, even in that vulnerable moment.
I came to interview Becky after a series of clashes with her agent, Caroline Watt.
You may remember that Caroline was not well enough to go to court and explain how her phone had fallen out of her hands and gone into the North Sea, which meant the evidence had been lost.
In court, several text messages between Caroline and Becky were revealed, including an exchange in which Becky asked Caroline to leak a story about a football colleague of her husband Jamie, telling her: “I want to pay for this.” In another exchange, Caroline mocked Coleen’s complaint that someone she “trusted” had been selling stories about her, telling Becky: “It wasn’t someone she trusted.” It was me.’ Coleen’s lawyer, David Sherborne, memorably argued that if you buy a gun, load it, and give it to someone else to shoot, you are guilty.
Caroline wasn’t a professional publicist – she was a friend of Becky’s who was doing the work – and when I wrote an unflattering profile of Becky a few years earlier, she was absolutely furious and emailed me to tell me what she thought of me in an instant. hurtfully personal comment. terms.
We had a back and forth and then talked again a few times, each time Becky made headlines, like when she took her own trip to the I’m A Celebrity jungle. Caroline’s view was that Becky was a victim of difficult family circumstances and had been married to some rotten men, and that it was unfair to characterize her as greedy, ambitious or up-and-coming.
After Wagatha’s tweet, I asked Caroline if Becky would agree to be interviewed and she said that Becky had decided she would only talk to me as people would know I wasn’t a fan of hers, so it would be a fair article.
I came to interview Becky after a series of clashes with her agent, Caroline Watt (pictured with Ms Vardy).
As I waited for the call, I wondered what she herself would have to say. Coleen’s tweet described a carefully executed mission to find a mole among her group of friends. How could Becky get out of this?
Becky was clearly upset and spent a lot of time crying over the fact that she was seven months pregnant and being trolled. She was desperate for the public whippings to stop; most of the conversation revolved around how terrible it was for her.
Becky told me: ‘I thought she was my friend but she completely annihilated me. Coleen said: “You know, I always really liked you, which makes it harder.”
Becky was convinced she could prove, through a cyber forensics expert, that she was not to blame.
I asked him if someone on his team, like Caroline, or a family member, could have been the culprit and he said absolutely not. He said many people had access to his Instagram account.
She said she was particularly baffled by Coleen’s motivation, saying: “It makes me wonder if there is more to this than meets the eye.” For someone to make something like this public, there has to be something bigger behind it.
‘I keep thinking about it and trying to figure it out. It’s like trying to figure out how someone does a magic trick. I don’t know why; if I had the answer I’d be delighted.’
And he added: ‘I have no hatred or bitterness. She did what she thought was necessary. “That was his decision and he will have to live with it.”
I asked him if he wanted an apology. “I think it’s gone beyond an apology, right?” he said with absolute determination in his voice. I knew at that moment that there would be some kind of legal consequence. Becky held on disastrously and filed a defamation lawsuit that has been considered a huge tactical error. She still maintains that she wasn’t the snitch and that Coleen – the shitting pigeon of her metaphor – is the real villain who ruined her life.