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To think Colleen Rooney

192 replies

Smidgexxx · 13/07/2021 10:42

Shouldn't put things online that are so private to her? None of us should?
I just think the money wasted on this court case with Rebekah vardy.

I know we all have our own opinions. I found the way Colleen dealt with it wrong personally. Rebekah was 7 months pregnant and she wasn't just causing stress to Rebekah but to her children too. She went all public about it and aired her dirty laundry in public whilst being angry about her own privacy.

I just saw an update and one of the things she said was Rebekah was sitting behind her at the 2016 euros to be seen even though it was someone else's seat. What a petty thing to say.

The whole thing is just ridiculous.

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IcedPurple · 13/07/2021 14:50

@TotorosCatBus

Not followed them that closely but I can understand why they don't want to be associated with The Sun these days.
But it was fine for them to take a quarter of a million from The S*n 17 years ago?

Let's not pretend this is some sort of principled stance for Scouse solidarity.

Brefugee · 13/07/2021 16:05

Nah - there's a massive difference between a photo shoot & interview and someone you thought was your friend sharing details of your private life.

That whole WAG phenomenon was so weird. At the time (in Germany) Theo Walcott was the absolute new-boy and I saw a woman journo on TV talking about how his (17 year old) girlfriend could capitalise on it and make money frin being a WAG. Totally mesmerisingly horrifying.

IcedPurple · 13/07/2021 16:07

Nah - there's a massive difference between a photo shoot & interview and someone you thought was your friend sharing details of your private life.

Not in the context of boycotting The S*n.

Brefugee · 13/07/2021 16:10

Well yes. Nobody should provide content to that Rag. But the principle still stands

YellowBellyCat · 13/07/2021 16:23

Team Coleen here. I 100% believe RV was leaking shit to the press and I don’t blame Colleen one bit for being fed up. Now whether Colleen can prove it remains to be seen. It’s unfortunate she has to now prove it was Rebekah personally rather than just someone with access to her account. Will RV have to state in court who has access to her account? Because if she’s saying it’s not her won’t she have to pin the blame on someone else?

DrSbaitso · 13/07/2021 16:31

@YellowBellyCat

Team Coleen here. I 100% believe RV was leaking shit to the press and I don’t blame Colleen one bit for being fed up. Now whether Colleen can prove it remains to be seen. It’s unfortunate she has to now prove it was Rebekah personally rather than just someone with access to her account. Will RV have to state in court who has access to her account? Because if she’s saying it’s not her won’t she have to pin the blame on someone else?
I don't think so. Rooney has something to prove, not Vardy.
achainisonlyasstrong · 13/07/2021 16:36

I don't think Rebekah is tacky!!! It's a lovely spelling.But because of Rebekah Vardy, people think it's tacky. I don't know much about legal stuff but maybe this case could have interesting implications for what can be said on social media platforms. And hopefully people may be more careful in the future. In hindsight Colleen should have reacted by blocking Rebekah and dealt with this privately but likely she was just really cross and responded emotionally.

Smidgexxx · 13/07/2021 16:44

Just think how many Chanel handbags and holidays they could have had if they used the block button Instead lol.

Shows how little they appreciate the value of money. I'd be ashamed at myself.

At least you have footballers like Marcus rashford (I think) that made sure little kids tummy's didn't go hungry through the pandemic.

I know it's irrelevant and stuff but so much could be done with that money that would really improve the quality of life for many other people.

I've just read the Peter Andre article. So Becky has been Interested in famous lads forever then.

Is she actually famous for anything herself or was she always in the right place at the right time to find all the rich footballers and popstars?

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Nightlystroll · 13/07/2021 17:35

They both want the limelight they get through their husbands. They've both used their husbands' names to up their profile and make money. If Rooney hadn't tried to publicly humiliate someone else, she wouldn't be in court being condemned for spending money whilst many in the country are struggling to feed themselves. Vardy had 2 choices. Suck it up and wait for it to blow over, or sue. She decided to make the whole situation even worse by sobbing about it on telly.
Both of them are twits.

JohnStonesMissus · 13/07/2021 17:49

@achainisonlyasstrong

I don't think Rebekah is tacky!!! It's a lovely spelling.But because of Rebekah Vardy, people think it's tacky. I don't know much about legal stuff but maybe this case could have interesting implications for what can be said on social media platforms. And hopefully people may be more careful in the future. In hindsight Colleen should have reacted by blocking Rebekah and dealt with this privately but likely she was just really cross and responded emotionally.
Rebekah is the Hebrew way of spelling it, it's in the Bible..
wigjuice · 13/07/2021 17:53

So many snobby twats on one thread 😆

HypocriteHunter · 13/07/2021 17:57

So many snobby twats on one thread 😆

Though only one gobby one it would seem…

Willwebebuyingnumber11 · 13/07/2021 18:04

@Smidgexxx she’s not famous no. Worked in a nightclub and well known for being fond of men with money 😂 but not famous in her own right, no.

wigjuice · 13/07/2021 18:11

HypocriteHunter yes, and I totally own it.

HypocriteHunter · 13/07/2021 18:12

Grand. Well done.

1forAll74 · 13/07/2021 18:41

Basically to mind numbing to think about these twitter headed people.Crap always makes the headlines these days.

DrSbaitso · 13/07/2021 18:44

@1forAll74

Basically to mind numbing to think about these twitter headed people.Crap always makes the headlines these days.
You're talking about it. You've just generated website content about it.
Smokeahontas · 13/07/2021 19:10

She (CR) didn’t put it on a page where ‘everyone could see’. She suspected it was RV and so made stuff up, like going to a clinic in Mexico so she could choose the gender of her baby. These posts then ended up in The Sun. The posts were only visible to RV, hence her (epic, I think) statement to that effect.

Chainson · 13/07/2021 20:44

@TotorosCatBus

If you had a column The Secret WAG wouldn't you just ask your friends if they'd make up or allow you to post gossip about them? It sounds like it was common knowledge that Rebekah was the columnist.
If you were in the public eye would you let a friend make up gossip about you for their gossip column? You'd let them say (heavily imply it was you) you were going for sex selection treatment so that every bitchy commenter would say what a cunt you are for not being happy with your male children in the rags and on Twitter? Or that you were using drugs, your husband was 'playing away'? The sort of shit a Secret WAG column consists of? It's not all hearts and flowers or the column would not be exciting to the readers. Would you be ok with a 'friend' selling a story that your supermansion basement had flooded even? It's the Z listers who need every inch of coverage that go along with it, not the high profile ones people are interested in. I think it was Vardy, she didn't need the money but she wanted to keep the negative press away from herself by currying favour with the rag, she has a lot of negativity aimed at her with the whole sleeping with lots of footballers/ controlling the one she got her claws into angle they were going at with her.
maddening · 13/07/2021 20:48

Bit it is possible that it was hackers and not Vardy, so.she has gone out slandering Vardy following her amateur detective work/ trap, without considering that her sm is hacked.

Nightlystroll · 13/07/2021 20:55

If you share private and personal things with 396 people, the number on her personal FB account, things are going to get leaked. How can you think anything different?

Smokeahontas · 13/07/2021 21:23

Given the stories were planted over many, many months, I’d personally doubt the hacking thing. But then I also think ‘my account was hacked’ became a tiresome excuse years ago. It’s on a par with the dog ate my homework.

JudgeJ · 13/07/2021 22:21

@NoProblem123

Yeah, you don’t care, I don’t care, nobody cares !

She’s not very nice is she.

They deserve each other, both famous because of the men with whom they sleep, nothing else.
DrSbaitso · 13/07/2021 23:04

They deserve each other, both famous because of the men with whom they sleep, nothing else.

Well to be fair, they've got a story of their own going on here. We could discuss the court case at length without ever mentioning their husbands.

TheTallOakTrees · 13/07/2021 23:08

They are all pretty pathetic.
Too much of footballers money and fame and little common sense and brain

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