Coleen Rooney's Twitter row with Rebekah Vardy inspires others to share tales of betrayal
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Coleen Rooney’s Twitter row with Rebekah Vardy was the story which dominated the headlines yesterday.
The TV personality and wife of Wayne Rooney, 33, outed her fellow WAG (a term literally meaning ‘Wives and Girlfriends’ of footballers) for allegedly leaking the contents of her private Instagram Stories to the press.
In a now-viral tweet, Rooney revealed how she believes she caught out Vardy, 37, leading to Twitter users dubbing her “WAGAtha Christie”, after the late crime novelist Dame Agatha Christie, for her sleuthing and storytelling style.
Rooney’s Wikipedia page has even been altered to include “amateur detective”.
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Now, Twitter users have been inspired to share their own tales of catching people out on lies.
This has been a burden in my life for a few years now and finally I have got to the bottom of it...... pic.twitter.com/0YqJAoXuK1
— Coleen Rooney (@ColeenRoo) October 9, 2019
But while Rooney might currently be the most famous, modern-day amateur detective, she’s not alone in her investigative work.
Biographer Shon Faye was inspired by Rooney’s story to share how her mother discovered her father’s affair in the 90s using letter shading.
Colleen Rooney reminds me of how in the 90s my mother discovered my father was seeing another woman because he had sent my mum a letter and she saw the imprint of another letter from the same writing pad on it and SHADED over her own letter in pencil so that the text was revealed
— shon faye. (@shonfaye) October 9, 2019
Since Faye’s tweet, numerous other Twitter users have shared their tales of catching out marital infidelity, with techniques involving receipt tracking and audio recordings.
People are also making reference to their investigations involving social media platforms such as Chinese microblogging website Weibo and now-defunct website Bebo.
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Many years ago my then boyfriend got a letter that I suspected was from another woman. I tried to steam it open. Managed to set fire to it instead. Had to explain a singed envelope.
— Sue Murphy (@smurph99) October 10, 2019
my mum did something similar involving receipts and ordnance survey maps in the library to track down a secret house and although the whole situation was horrendous I imagine the vindication was very sweet
— Lisa Thom (@lisathom_) October 10, 2019
Colleen Rooney reminds me of my dad who *bugged his home phone line* because he suspected his second wife was having an affair with the man next door. he was right. but she still denied it, even when he played her tapes of herself. https://t.co/wL77frFWed
— boring pineapple (@wrongnatalie) October 10, 2019
the coleen rooney/rebekah vardy thing reminds me of the time a (now ex-) friend stole my chocolate brownie and then denied it
— Siobhán Moore (@SiobhanMoore90) October 9, 2019
I’ve been thinking about why the Coleen Rooney story has gotten such traction today and I think it’s because Coleen reminds us of that friend who, when you said you shifted a fella on holiday and only got his first name and county he’s from, can find him on Facebook in 3 mins
— Dr Sarah Campbell (@SarCampbel) October 9, 2019
Also it reminds me of being a teenager and someone doing this to my best friend on Bebo and we did some similar trickery to find the culprit by means of a made up profile for a made up boy so yes, Coleen and I, should be best pals
— Susannah Otter (@SusannahOtter) October 9, 2019
The Coleen Rooney thing reminds me of a former boss who started sending out similar emails to different small batches of staff with slight variations in the wording to establish who was forwarding them all straight to Private Eye
— Martin Belam (@MartinBelam) October 9, 2019
This whole Coleen reveal reminds me when he found out a mutual was lying about her Weibo connections. That was a ride.
— ❤️FromShan (@shanshiku) October 9, 2019
Then there are all the pop culture references to the likes of ‘Games of Thrones’, ‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘The Godfather’.
Coleen trapping Vardy’s misses reminds me of when Tyrion flushed Janos Slynt out as Cersei’s spy, by giving Slynt, Baelish, Varys different versions of the same story. #GOT
— Viva CB2 💥 (@vivacb2) October 9, 2019
It's a few hours on; my thoughts are sharper. The Rebekah Vardy/Coleen Rooney thing reminds me every single world event is basically an ep of Gossip Girl. Send tweet.
— Ruchira Sharma (@RuchoSharma) October 9, 2019
Coleen trapping Vardy’s misses reminds me of when Tyrion flushed Janos Slynt out as Cersei’s spy, by giving Slynt, Baelish, Varys different versions of the same story. #GOT
— Viva CB2 💥 (@vivacb2) October 9, 2019
The drama. The betrayal. Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy's beef reminds me of something pic.twitter.com/4iPBIbP9c6
— Dan Thomas (@dan_thom) October 9, 2019
As Rooney highlighted yesterday, digital technology provides ample opportunity to uncover dishonest behaviour.
Earlier this year, a man shared his concerns that his wife could be having an affair with her boss after discovering a suspicious text message on her phone while she was in the bathroom one evening.
He was advised by an expert to openly acknowledge what he had seen with his wife.
