Footballers’ wives fall out over leaking of stories

Rebekah Vardy has denied that she leaked information from Coleen Rooney’s private Instagram account.

Following an allegation by Rooney – who told her 1.2 million Twitter followers that she had spent five months attempting to work out who was sharing stories based on her personal social media posts and pointed the finger at Vardy’s Instagram account – Vardy said she “never” speaks to journalists about her.

The reality TV star and wife of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy wrote to Rooney: “If you thought this was happening you could have told me & I could have changed my passwords to see if it stopped.

“Over the years various people have had access to my insta & just this week I found I was following people I didn’t know and have never followed myself.”

Vardy, who is pregnant with her fifth child, added: “I’m not being funny but I don’t need the money. What would I gain from selling stories on you?”

Rooney claimed she had experienced a “burden” in her life in recent years as information from her personal Instagram page appeared to have been leaked from an account belonging to 37-year-old Vardy.

She wrote: “For a few years now someone who I trusted to follow me on my personal Instagram account has been consistently informing the Sun newspaper of my private posts and stories.

“After a long time of trying to figure out who it could be, for various reasons, I had a suspicion.”

Rooney, 33, said she “came up with an idea”, and that she blocked everyone apart from an Instagram page belonging to Vardy from seeing her Instagram stories.

She added: “Over the past five months I have posted a series of false stories to see if they made their way into the Sun newspaper. And, you know what, they did!

“Now I know for certain which account/individual it’s come from.

“I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them.

“It’s... Rebekah Vardy’s account.”