Rebekah Vardy, who infamously took fellow footballer’s spouse Coleen Rooney to courtroom over an Instagram submit, is about to get her personal actuality present.
Titled “The Vardys,” the sequence, from Orchard Studios, is because of hit U.Ok. community ITV (and its streaming platform ITVX) later this yr. The showrunner for “The Vardys” is Josh Jacobs.
The sequence will characteristic Rebekah and her husband Jamie Vardy, a former soccer participant for Leicester Metropolis. He has since moved to Cremonese in Italy. The present will observe the couple and their kids as they decamp to the continent to start out over.
Rebekah Vardy discovered herself within the headlines in 2019 after Coleen Rooney (spouse of England soccer star Wayne Rooney) revealed on social media she had hatched a plot to seek out out which of her associates had been promoting tales about her to the tabloids by posting faux information on a non-public Instagram account. She blocked her followers one after the other till the one individual left was Vardy, who, she concluded, was the one promoting the tales. The fallout, which made waves throughout the nation, earned Rooney the nickname “Wagatha Christie” (“Wags” being the collective time period for footballers’ wives and girlfriends within the U.Ok.)
Vardy sued Rooney for libel however after a showstopping 2022 trial that was coated broadly by the press, the choose discovered for Rooney, leaving Vardy with an infinite authorized invoice and her repute in tatters. The trial impressed a play and TV particular whereas Rooney went on to have her personal sequence on Disney+.
Now, in line with ITV’s press launch, Vardy is “prepared for the following chapter.”
“As she manages the emotional and bodily upheaval of the brand new transfer, she displays on her latest challenges within the U.Ok., intent on placing the ‘Wagatha’ drama behind her and specializing in an thrilling new chapter,” reads the discharge.
ITV’s commissioning editor for leisure and actuality, Louise Main, who ordered the present alongside Katie Rawcliffe, mentioned: “We’re thrilled to be working with the Vardys on this sequence for ITV1 and ITVX. At a pivotal second of their lives, it is a uncommon and revealing look behind the headlines – from the highs of Jamie’s soccer legacy to the realities of beginning over as a household, with Rebekah sharing her reflections on one of the talked-about tales of the final decade.”
Dan Grabiner and Nat Lippiett, government producers for Orchard Studios, added: “The Vardys are an iconic and brilliantly entertaining household, and this behind-the-scenes perception into their huge transfer reveals them as you’ve by no means seen them earlier than: candid, unfiltered and utterly unpredictable. Welcome to the Vardy social gathering.”
