I’m A Celebrity’s Rebekah Vardy is a survivor but she’s being bullied because of her footballer husband Jamie

I’m A Celebrity’s Rebekah Vardy is a survivor but she’s being bullied because of her footballer husband Jamie

I’m A Celebrity’s Rebekah Vardy is a survivor, but she’s being bullied because she’s a WAG (Picture:..

Rebekah Vardy is a survivor - but she's being bullied because of her footballer husband
I’m A Celebrity’s Rebekah Vardy is a survivor, but she’s being bullied because she’s a WAG (Picture: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

Welcome to 2017, everybody. The year that we are still keen to bash strong women.

Next year it will be 100 years since women won the right to vote, and arguably more poignantly, the year that exposed decades of sexual abuse, assault and harassment towards females. Surely you’d think we might have all become a bit kinder, a bit more supportive to our girls.

Though we only need to look as far as I’m A Celebrity to see that we haven’t. Step forward Rebekah Vardy. A mother-of-four who dragged herself out of a council estate, survived being sexually abused herself, and the victim of domestic violence. Most recently, also, a woman who has shown extraordinary metel, barely wincing during BushTucker trials that have seen all kinds of creepy crawlies – and sizeable rats – attempt to intimidate her while in a confined space.

Her Achilles heel, it appears, is that she’s married to a Premier League footballer.

Rebekah Vardy is a survivor - but she's being bullied because of her footballer husband
Jamie Vardy and wife Rebekah Vardy at the Pride of Britain Awards (Picture: David Fisher/REX/Shutterstock)

As such, she’s being portrayed as the precise opposite. As a meanie who has nothing better to spend her money on than a new pair of boobs. And as a woman who is with her husband – footballer Jamie Vardy – because of his job and back balance.

Ex boyfriends have appeared out of the woodwork, desperate to tell us all what a money-grabbing cow she is. That she left them in search of something better. Ironically, their testimonies so pathetic, I think they each prove she has, btw.

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Becky went into the jungle to try to change the public’s perception of her. Since she was thrusted into the limelight nearly three years ago along with Leicester City’s very own wonder boy Jamie, Becky has prompted the most bizarre amount of hatred. The trolling by thousands on social media for being “fat” after giving birth to her fourth baby, Finley, last year made the most uncomfortable viewing. She wants to persuade the nation that their views are incorrect.

As is the horrifically sexist guff that’s being written about her as she makes some of her male co-stars look like wimps.

Rebekah Vardy is a survivor - but she's being bullied because of her footballer husband
Rebekah Vardy has been honest about the abuse she endured at 16 (Picture: ITV)

And it’s not like Amir Khan and Jamie Lomas have squeaky clean pasts either. But it’s Becky we’re bashing.

I spent a day with her, her two youngest children and her lovely father, earlier this year. While some of so-called WAGs I’ve come into contact with over the years have been preened to a to within an eight of an inch of their lives, and surrounded by their ‘people’ I arrived to find Becky breastfeeding her tiny baby, dressed in a grey tracksuit. And no, it wasn’t a Juicy Couture.

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It was clearly so important to her that I didn’t presume she was a shopaholic who leaves her children with a gaggle of nannies while she went out to hit the Laurent Perrier. But instead, she is a loving, hands on mother who wants to pay her way. And woe betide anyone who gets in her way with that.

Perhaps it is simply the fact that she isn’t falling into the stereotype of a footballer’s wife that her haters find irritating. Maybe they’re jealous of her enviable lifestyle. Someone like Becky would be so much easier to stomach if she was a lazy, money-grabbing cow dressed head to toe in dodge designer gear.

But she isn’t and I love her for it!

I’m A Celebrity continues 9pm on ITV.

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