I was married to Rebekah Vardy…this is how I KNOW she is desperately jealous of Coleen Rooney

The ex-husband of Rebekah Vardy has branded her ‘fame hungry’, claiming she’s going to say and do something for cash.

Steve Clarke, 59, who was married to Vardy for simply over a yr, stated she is determined to remain within the limelight and is ‘100 per cent’ jealous of her WAG rival Coleen Rooney.

He advised MailOnline: ‘She is simply determined to remain related and maintain her title within the information.

‘It’s fairly pathetic what she is doing by commenting on I’m a Celeb however it simply exhibits she is so jealous of Coleen. I can assure you 100 million per cent she simply desires to maintain individuals seeing her image and her title.’

He added: ‘If you watch Coleen, she is all smiles and pleased. Folks like her, however when Rebekah was within the jungle individuals had been speaking about her resting bitch face. She simply can’t stand that individuals like Coleen and the general public don’t have any sympathy for her.’

Mr Clarke was talking as Vardy reignited a disagreement together with her WAG rival Coleen in a scathing I’m a Celeb column for a nationwide newspaper through which she has made various barbed feedback.

Vardy wrote that she hoped Rooney is pressured to ‘eat penis or humble pie’ within the jungle earlier than extra not too long ago slamming BBC Radio 1 presenter Dean McCullough for ‘cosying up’ to Rooney on the present in one other blistering assault.

Vardy, 42, additionally branded hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly as ‘two small minded males’ whereas additionally describing Coleen as ‘the reward that retains on giving’ after her canoe capsized throughout the celebrities’ race to the camp.

Rebekah Vardy and her husband Jamie Vardy depart the Royal Courts of Justice, Could 2022

Mr Clarke stated his ex-wife is determined to remain within the limelight and is ‘100 per cent’ jealous of her WAG rival Coleen Rooney (pictured)

Mr Clarke, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, had an acrimonious break up from the Rebekah in 2005. They met in 2001 when she labored as a secretary at his timeshare firm. He owned a fleet of pricey vehicles, together with a Ferrari.

They lived in Oxford, London and later Cyprus.

He stated: ‘Once we moved to Cyprus, she needed one of the best of all the pieces. A nanny for her daughters, a brand new automobile and an even bigger and higher villa. She all the time needed extra.

‘I do really feel sorry for Jamie Vardy. If he earned £1m a month she would spend £1.5m. She actually is a nightmare.’

He was Vardy’s second husband after her marriage to electrician Mark Godden.

Now a director of a well being and wellness firm, Mr Clarke claimed that Vardy is being pushed by jealousy of Rooney.

He stated: ‘You possibly can see how Rebekah is simply so jealous of Coleen and is in her shadow. She should hate that Coleen has made a reputation for herself and never simply being Mrs Wayne Rooney.

‘She is her personal particular person, whereas Rebekah is simply related as a result of she is married to a Premier League footballer. That’s the reason she has trademarked the title Wagatha Christie as a result of although she misplaced she will be able to make some cash out of it.’

He admitted that there isn’t any love misplaced between him and his ex with Vardy alleging he was abusive – a declare he vehemently denies.

He stated she suspects she is doing a working commentary on the I’m a Celeb present for cash.

Mr Clarke advised the MailOnline that he feels ‘sorry’ for her new husband Jamie, saying: ‘She actually is a nightmare’

In line with her ex-husband, Vardy ‘is simply so jealous of Coleen and is in her shadow’

Wayne Rooney and his spouse Coleen (pictured on October 7) met as youngsters on their council property of Croxteth in Liverpool

Rebekah Vardy and ex-Premier League star Dennis Sensible on I am A Celeb in 2017

He added: ‘Let’s face it she has an enormous authorized invoice to pay so she wants the cash. Understanding her she’s going to attempt to string out paying Coleen for so long as she will be able to. She was humiliated within the trial and the general public can see proper by way of her and what she is about.’

Vardy controversially as soon as claimed that Mr Clarke ‘pressured’ her into doing a newspaper interview a few one night time stand she had with pop star Peter Andre. He was contacted by Rooney’s authorized workforce throughout the now well-known ‘Wagatha Christie’ trial however refused to get entangled.

Talking about their marriage, Vardy she stated: ‘That rapidly turned a horrible relationship — I used to be frightened of him. He’d inform me what to do, the place to be and the way to act.

‘I would had an evening with Peter Andre on the finish of my first marriage and stupidly advised him. He needed the cash so made me go public with my story. I felt terrible.’

They’d an on-off relationship and wed when she was 23 and eight months pregnant by one other man.

Weeks later, she had eldest daughter Megan.

Vardy stated: ‘As quickly as she was born, he made us transfer overseas. He claimed he owed cash and needed us to run away to Cyprus. It went downhill from there. He turned violent in the direction of me. He cheated, he lied. It lasted ten months earlier than I escaped again to the UK with my child after he cheated on me.’

Weeks later Clarke was sentenced to 2 years’ jail after his conviction for inflicting loss of life by reckless driving in a head-on crash which killed a dad and grandad.

Mrs Vardy went on to have son Taylor with footballer Luke Foster earlier than assembly Jamie, 37, who she married in Could 2016.