Under fire over Boxing Day hunt
Rebekah Vardy (whose husband Jamie is star striker for the Foxes
SHE took up hunting following her Wagatha Christie defeat to Coleen Rooney.
But now Rebekah Vardy’s new hobby has got her into trouble with local saboteurs, who have demanded that she stops immediately.
Nottingham Hunt Saboteurs have lambasted the WAG for taking part in an event on Boxing Day, saying she should publicly distance herself from the controversial South Notts hunting group to ‘repair her damaged reputation’.
Mrs Vardy, wife of England international striker Jamie, who plays for Leicester City – known as the Foxes – posted a picture of herself on a horse that prompted a spate of trolling on social media, despite the hunt insisting it does not involve foxes.
Phillip Stubbings, who runs the saboteur organisation, said: ‘She’s clearly a woman who has shown incredibly poor judgment previously, so it seems to be a continuation of that.
‘We sabotage the South Notts hunt every week.
After the Wagatha Christie trial, we were amused that the South Notts were associated with her.
‘Her presence doesn’t do hunting any services.’
In 2022, Mrs Vardy, 41, lost a High Court libel battle to Mrs Rooney after she was accused by her rival of leaking stories to The Sun newspaper.
She later took up hunting as a hobby but after posting the picture of herself with the South Notts hunt last month, Mrs Vardy was forced to turn off her Instagram comments after a facing backlash from her followers.
In response, she messaged her social media followers saying that no animals were hurt.
She wrote: ‘Fox hunting – no animals were hurt. Great few days out on fun rides and trail hunts testing out a new horse.
‘Great turnout and even better port and mulled wine at our stopoff at Durham Ox pub.
‘No animals were hurt in the process, just sore heads.’
As well as posting a picture of herself on horseback, she also shared a photograph of herself mucking out the stables ahead of the hunt.
Trail hunting was devised in the wake of the 2004 Hunting Act.
The aim of the event was to legally replicate traditional fox hunting as closely as possible without including the illegal element, being the chasing and killing of a live fox.