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Frances Kindon

Rebekah Vardy's story-leaking past - from furious Peter Andre to own husband's teammate

The Wagatha Christie trial was a rollercoaster for Rebekah Vardy, who broke down on more than one occasion as she was accused of selling out everyone from Coleen Rooney to Danielle Lloyd.

Faced with pages of messages between her and her agent Caroline Watt, Rebekah, 40, was forced to deny that she was The Sun's mysterious columnist, The Secret Wag.

She insisted that she was not behind the leaked fake stories that Coleen planted on her private Instagram account in a 'sting' operation - although the court today found in Coleen's favour.

And the mother-of-five also denied setting up that infamous picture of all the WAGs at the 2018 World Cup in Russia that left fellow WAG Fern Maguire feeling 'upset' and 'embarrassed'.

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Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy faced off at the High Court (Getty Images)

But there were some leaks that Rebekah held her hands up to.

Peter Andre

It's no secret that Rebekah did a kiss and tell on the Mysterious Girl singer with the now-defunct News of the World in 2004.

Sadly for Peter, he got dragged into the case when Coleen's legal team used the story in an attempt to prove that Rebekah does not respect the privacy of others.

The entire article was read out, including her now infamous comparison of Peter's appendage to a 'chipolata', and her savage take on his performance in bed.

Peter Andre was dragged into the court battle thanks to Rebekah's kiss and tell (PA)

For father-of-four Peter, having a whole new generation exposed to the tale was just too much.

Taking to Instagram, he said: “Fifteen years this has been going on and I kept quiet and I didn’t say anything and I let everyone have their laugh and I let everyone say what they wanted to say.

"Just think how that feels, if a man had said this about her anatomy and made up something... there would be absolute outrage.

“But because it has been said about me it’s been the butt of all jokes, I’ve taken it for 15 years.”

Rebekah apologised for the article in court and insisted that she had apologised directly to Peter and his wife Emily.

"There’s a lot of things in there that didn’t come out of my mouth and misrepresented and circumstances around that article I’m deeply sorry for," she said.

"I was very young. I haven’t spoken to him but I sent both his wife and him personal messages a couple of years ago."

Rebekah accused her second husband Steve Clark of 'forcing' her to give the interview. He staunchly refuted those allegations, claiming she said she did it for "a bit of money" and because "it would be funny".

Danny Drinkwater

Her husband's former Leicester and England team mate Danny Drinkwater was arrested for drink driving in 2019 after crashing his Range Rover.

The story quickly became front page news, and Rebekah admitted that she had tried to leak information to the press via her former agent, Caroline Watt,

In brutal messages shows at court, she wrote: "Story.....Danny Drinkwater arrested.'

Danny Drinkwater pictured with Rebekah's husband Jamie in 2016 (GETTY)

"Crashed his car drunk with 2 girls in it. Both in hospital with 2 broken ribs. He has been only just let out of the cells."

"I want paying for this," she added, although when pressed she insisted it had been purely "a fleeting thought".

When Caroline messaged later to say someone else had already tipped the newspaper off, Rebekah replied: "F***.''

"I'm fuming I didn't give it to you earlier," she continued, while Caroline replied: "Me too. That would have been a fortune.''

Rebekah denied she was upset about missing out on the cash and insisted the exchange was just their 'sense of humour'.

She said: "I realise how badly they read and I apologise for how badly they read. But these are private conversations between friends who knew each other's sense of humour.''

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