Viewers of ITV’s I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! has been left reeling after Coleen Rooney finally discussed Rebekah Vardy and the Wagatha Christie drama.
It comes as the reality TV show marks a new series seeing stars including Rooney, McFly’s Danny Jones, GK Barry and Melvin Odoom all enter the jungle.
When it was first announced that Rooney would be in the I’m A Celebrity jungle, many viewers from home all hoped she would bring up Vardy.
Although it was doubtful she would, Rooney made a few comments about the Wagatha Christie drama.
if i had a pound for each time ant & dec will mention rebekah vardy i’ll have made as much money as colleen rooney’s wage for being on this show #imaceleb
— ebony (@eldixblos) November 18, 2024
Coleen Rooney discusses Wagatha Christie on I’m a Celebrity
Talking to campmates, Rooney said: “I was on to it, but I wasn't on to what had happened”.
Adding: “I didn't think it [the post] would give as much attention as it did.”
Later adding: "I felt ashamed going to court. I felt like we were putting on a whole show for the world.
"It became a joke and it was disappointing. It wasn't a joke to me."
Reacting to Rooney, campmate GK Barry said: “Coleen spoke about Wagatha. It was so interesting to hear it".
Discussing who owned the term 'Wagatha Christie', Rooney said: "She does."
The case of Wagatha Christie began on October 9, 2019 when Rooney posted to X (formerly Twitter) to claim that Vardy had been leaking private information about her to The Sun.
She shared that “for a few years” on her private account she had just Vardy as the only follower believing that she was leaking her stories.
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Writing: “I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them. It's… Rebekah Vardy."
Vardy later took legal action against Rooney and after several trials across two years, the Wagatha Christie case came to an end when Vardy lost her High Court libel case against Rooney.
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! airs every night at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
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