Rebekah Vardy
Rebekah Vardy ("née" Miranda; born 17 February 1982) is an English model and media personality. She was a contestant on "I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!" in 2017 and on "Dancing on Ice" in 2021. Television. In November 2017, Vardy was a contestant on the seventeenth series of the ITV reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!". Vardy was the third celebrity to be eliminated on 4 December 2017. Vardy has made multiple appearances as a guest panellist and presenter on "Loose Women". She has also appeared on "Good Morning  Britain", "Jeremy Vine" and "This Morning". In 2019, Vardy appeared in two episodes of "Celebrity Gogglebox" alongside husband Jamie, and an episode of "How To Spend it Well at Christmas" in 2019 alongside her family. In September 2020, it was announced that she would be competing in the thirteenth series of "Dancing on Ice" in 2021. She was partnered with Andy Buchanan and was eliminated in week 6. Charity work. Rebekah and Jamie Vardy are both Family ambassadors to Barnardo's. Vardy is also a patron of The Dorothy Goodman School in Leicestershire. She has supported Leicester based homeless charity  'Homelessness to Hope' having officially opened The Hope Centre and has supported the Jeans for Genes charity campaign. Vardy was a very public defender of baby Alfie Evans and supported his family in their campaign to have him sent abroad. Personal life. In 2014, whilst working as a nightclub promoter, Vardy met current husband Jamie. The couple married on 25 May 2016 at Peckforton Castle. Vardy has five children, a daughter Megan (born 2005), a son Taylor (born 2010) with footballer Luke Foster and three children with current husband Jamie Vardy, Sofia (born 2014), Finlay (born 2017) and Olivia Grace  (born 2019). Vardy is also stepmother to Jamie's daughter from a previous relationship, Ella. Vardy is a daughter of Carlos Miranda, who was born in Madeira, making her half Portuguese. On 9 October 2019, Coleen Rooney made a Twitter post alleging that posts from her private Instagram account were being leaked to "The Sun" newspaper. Rooney stated that to catch out who was selling the stories, she had restricted access on who could see the posts. She stated that the only viewer of these posts was Vardy, therefore insinuating that she was the culprit. This Tweet went viral, being  dubbed the 'Wagatha Christie' scandal (a play on words of famous mystery writer Agatha Christie, and the football term 'WAG'). Vardy responded on her own Twitter account, denying the claims and stated that her Instagram had been hacked. In June 2020, it was reported that Vardy is taking Rooney to court for defamation, with legal costs reportedly estimated to be £500,000 for each side. Vardy won the first round of her case, setting the grounds for future libel action and also winning almost £23,000 in costs from Rooney. The pair are trying to reach a resolution without going  through the courts, agreeing to delay further court proceedings until February 2021.