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 Coleen Rooney, wife of England and Manchester United's record
goalscorer Wayne Rooney, said she turned sleuth to solve the
mystery of who was sharing her personal information with The
Sun.
In a Twitter post that made plenty of headlines of its own on
Wednesday, Rooney pointed the finger of guilt at Rebekah Vardy,
whose husband Jamie Vardy used to play for England with Wayne
Rooney. Rebekah Vardy quickly denied she was to blame.
In a Twitter post, Rooney wrote that she had suspected a
follower of her personal Instagram account had been consistently
informing The Sun of her private posts and stories.
Rooney, who has 1.3 million followers on Twitter, said she
blocked everyone from viewing her Instagram stories except one
person. She then posted a series of false stories to see whether
they leaked out, which she said they had.
She wrote that only one person had viewed the false stories, and
added: "It’s...Rebekah Vardy’s account."
Denying any responsibility for the leaks to The Sun, Vardy
suggested others had accessed her account.
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"I never speak to anyone about you (Rooney) as various journalists
who have asked me to over the years can vouch for," Vardy wrote on
Twitter.
Rooney's post was retweeted tens of thousands of times with more
than 177,000 likes.
The Sun said each of the stories provided to the newspaper was put
to Rooney's representatives before publication, and on each occasion
they declined to comment. "Like all reputable media organizations,
we don't comment on sources," The Sun said.
The hashtag #WAGatha Christie, an amalgam of the late crime fiction
writer Agatha Christie and the media's acronym for footballers'
wives and girlfriends (WAG), was also trending.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Timothy Heritage)
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