WAGatha Christie!

I know its shallow of me but - I've found it all a bit of light relief from the real drama going on in our world. I'm sure Rebekah Vardy is tough enough to survive this and Colleen had better watch out. Wagwars

These are 'celebrities' who inhabit a different world to us mere mortals. They exist on publicity in their gilded lives so don't feel too sorry for them.

It seems to be indicative of modern life, doesn't it? Instead of having a private face to face conversation it goes online for all to see.
RV may be publicly distressed at this humiliation but I expect that CR was annoyed at the betrayal. As my dear old mum used to say, 'two wrongs don't make a right.'
Neither of them come out of this very well.

I'm on team Coleen - but I think she could have handled the situation in a better way.

DannieRae- I understand you feeling Colleen could have handled this in a better way. My feeling is she didn't want to and realised she was likely to come out of this with more sympathy than RV and also get lots of publicity.

I have a sneaking admiration for Rebekah (?) as she seems to be able to 'control' Jamie and, from what I've heard from people who have met him, he is a likeable chap.

Colleen seems to be unable to control the silly Wayne and appears to be just hanging on for the money. He seems to be totally unprincipled!

Not that I take any notice of any of it, you understand!!

Colleen all the way for me. Rebekah has been causing upset for years. This Vardy bloke's family didn't go to their wedding. I think she upsets people.

Just like you, kittylester, I haven't paid any attention to this either!

Oh kittylester, I don't believe it's the wags job to control their men and in any event, don't believe its possible.
Jamie is a different man than Wayne.
JV and RV came together as adults, both already had children and failed relationships behind them. I expect that like many such relationships there was a lot of negotiating and agreements before they commited
Wayne and Colleen have been together since they were 16 and have 4 children together. They're involved in each others families, reflecting the traditional Irish Catholic/Lancashire working class approach to family.
Not that I'm taking sides, or taken this seriously of course.

I watched RV on 'I'm a Celebrity ...' and thought she came across as very manipulative, thoroughly dislikeable and frankly a bully. It wouldn't surprise me if she had leaked the stories to the press. I don't think either of them come out of it smelling of roses but I am team Colleen.

Of course I've only glanced at the stories in passing because I only read the broadsheets for important daily news!

I don't like Vardy for starters. I haven't a clue what it's about but no way can I imagine that Coleen is a spiteful person, the other one,yes.

Not at all bothered what either of them get up to. I recognise Coleen Rooney if I see her picture, but no idea what Rebecca Vardy looks like, and no desire to.

Goodness me who cares? I hadn’t a clue what this thread was about very cryptic until I got half way down and saw names can’t say I care a fig in the world for either I d probably not recognise either if they were standing next to me and couldn’t care less what they get up too I haven’t even read it so no idea what they re losing their wigs over
I thought it wa# about old Aggie the author ???

BlueBelle - I long to be as pure as you are on the WagathaChristie front, honest I do. I blame the young women who cut and sorted my hair as this news broke. They were watching on their iPhones and messaging their friends, I got caught up in the excitement. I confess, some of my adult children, ok my daughters were part of this awful iPhone communication.
I realise I'm a Bad Mother.
BlueBelle, I say all this tongue in cheek, I'm not being snarky with you, I enjoy your posts x

It’s not nice to imagine a friend flogging your intimacies to the highest bidder

I was laughing at intimacies - apparently one of the stories was about a flooded basement

I've no idea who RV is but do know of Colleen - what I genuinely can't understand is why this is such big news? Obviously all over the tabloids but also the broadsheets, BBC news, even The Today programme!

It's not like it's a slow news day these past 24 hours - there's so much going on.

It wasn't a murder plot or sex - what am I missing?

Riverwalk, I wonder if it was news on Radio 4 ( and 5) because the other news is so depressing, repetitive and leaves us feeling hopeless and as though we have no influence

We all know we've no influence over WagathaChristie or Rebekah Vardy, it isn't a life and death situation like the one going on in Turkey/Syria and so on so we can just relax and have a bit of a laugh.
Sorry to any WAGS hurt by this idea

I don't think that Colleen stays with the d*ckhead that she is married to for money but because she has 4 sons and realises that they need a dad.

It was Coleen’s good old-fashioned detective work that led to the breakthrough, which she announced on Instagram.

Although, to be quite honest, when I read the mother-of-four’s opening – “This has been a burden in my life for a few years now…” – I thought she was talking about Wayne!

For once, she wasn’t. Coleen was, in fact, referring to the elaborate Hetty Wainthropp-style sting operation she set up to discover the mole in her social media circle who was leaking personal stories and private posts to The Sun.

Channelling both Scott and Bailey, her shrewd approach was to block everyone from viewing her Instagram stories, apart from one account.

Over the following five months, she set up a very modern canary trap: she trickle-fed her Instagram with false stories both banal (her alleged return to TV) and bizarre (a trip to a gender selection clinic in Mexico).

They all made one particular red-top tabloid, as did the most recent, untrue snippet that the basement in her new home was flooded.

Finally, she saved and screen-shotted all the original stories as proof, before the Big Reveal. The only account that had access to her fake news belonged to (da da daaaa!) Rebekah Vardy. Cliffhanger pause. And cue the closing credits.

Note: Coleen didn’t phone her first. Or text her.

She just did the full exposé on Insta (nobody says the “gram” any more) and stood back to see what happened.

An online sensation that went viral faster than Spanish flu, that’s what happened. Coleen cleverly didn’t name Rebekah, merely citing her account as the source of the leaks.

But as girl code shattered into a million tiny pieces, Rebekah responded with denials and swift outrage.

Urmston - do you write for the Sun in your spare time? That was an ace summary of WAGatha Rooney's investigation into the insta scandal.

Colleen fell in love with Wayne , long before he was a multimillionaire footballer. She is the only genuinely likeable girl in all this. Thats only my opinion.

Unfortunately this ‘drama’ tells us what we need to know about social media. CR announced that the information was sent from RV account. RV has said that at least ten people have access to her account, all have the passwords, this is how today’s celebrities work they have a team of people operating their ‘insta’ and ‘facebook’ accounts Although it’s all about ‘insta’ now. I do not know the truth of what has happened but two things are sticking out for me, first is why would CR choose a time when RV is heavily pregnant that’s just not good regardless of what has happened, the second is that these so called celebrities live and thrive off news fed to the media either by themselves or others, they set up photo opportunities, ‘paparazzis’ are tipped off by their own staff then they complain about an invasion of privacy, they want everyone to find the most boring thing they do the most exciting thing ever and do not seem to be able to live mentally healthy without the desire for fame and popularity CR included, I don’t buy the whole I’m just an innocent next door girl from a housing estate in Liverpool, she stays with a man who has repeatedly humiliated herself and her children; staying with a serial philanderer just to give the children a dad is just not right, what is this ‘dad’ teaching his sons with regard to respecting women? Okay mini rant over, ultimately they have what they all crave which is all of us talking about them!

This takes me back. Having grown up in Southport it was risqué and wonderful to go to 'nightclubs' in Liverpool...probably old disused warehouses near the dock road. Places called 'The Babalou' and 'The Knitsbridge' and 'Uglies'. I was there once when a minder approached and asked would you like to dance with Mr ****, a Liverpool player, at the time!!

I'd go with my friends when we were 16/17 years old before we became boring and went onto uni...in my case, Durham Uni...a world away, no more fun but lots of scenery not to mention Lindisfarne!!

However, my point...at the Liverpool Scene were many professional glitter girls. They were beautiful and manicured but seemed to be on the prowl for a meet-up with a footballer...always present due to LFC and EFC.

Mrs Rooney however, according to the media met W Rooney at school and was admired and followed by him.

Perhaps now a WAG but maybe only protecting the life she's found herself with.

Same here Bluebelle and calendar girl!

I don't know why anyone here bothers to speculate about the rights and wrongs of all this or who is likeable and who is not. None of us know these people. I speak as one who has someone very famous as a family member and there's been so much rubbish written about them over the years, so much by people who think they know them from what they've gathered from the press. It's all speculative nonsense and best left alone and ignored.

Very clever of mrs R. I would have done the same! And yes,apparently its the 'young trendies' aka students/ teenagers, who actually DO say 'instagram still.lol