Wagatha Christie: Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy | 49

Diss and Tell

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.2 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Leaked DMs, a sting operation worthy of Agatha Christie, and two WAGs (wives and girlfriends of footballers): the recipe for a bloody good scandal. Coleen Rooney played online sleuth to nab the culprit behind leaking her private Instagram stories to the press. Her shocking reveal targeted another footballer's wife, Rebekah Vardy, causing a social media meltdown and a libel suit. This tale of warring WAGs redefines what it means to spill the tea.

Listen to Diss and Tell on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen early and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/diss-and-tell/ now.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Wonderie Plus subscribers can listen to diss and tell early and ad-free right now.
0:05.4	Join Wonderly Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:14.4	All right, Matt.
0:15.7	I hesitate to even ask because you are such a pure soul.
0:20.4	Uh-oh.
0:21.1	But have you ever been talking shit in a group chat or with a friend over text?
0:27.5	And then somehow it makes its way to the person who you were talking shit about.
0:32.0	I have a very old school version of this, which is that I wrote something mean about someone in a yearbook,
0:39.2	and that person immediately went and, like, showed the person that I wrote about.
0:45.7	They say the internet is forever, but I feel like what lasts even longer are, like,
0:50.5	the pages in the back of yearbooks, because even parents are finding those, like, decades later.
0:55.5	That'll be the one thing that stays on your bookshelf for eternity.
0:59.8	Exactly.
1:00.8	So this story that we're going to talk about is a little different
1:03.8	because the shit-talking in question leaves the group on purpose.
1:10.4	Let's start by taking a little skip, hop, and a jump over the pond
1:14.8	to England. British people again? I know. Brace yourself. Oh, I love British drama. Picture this.
1:22.0	We're in a spectacularly nice house in Cheshire, England, and this house in question is worth 20 million pounds if the tabloids are to be believed.
1:32.1	Okay, so I'm picturing Salt Burn from the movie Salt Burn.
1:35.3	It's not quite that country.
1:37.7	It's a bit more town if we're going by Pride and Prejudice descriptors.
1:41.5	Okay.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -270 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.