Rebekah Vardy’s ex-husband slams her as ‘desperately jealous’ following Coleen Rooney attacks

Rebekah Vardy’s ex-husband has launched a scathing attack on the WAG, claiming she is “desperately jealous” of Coleen Rooney’s success on I’m A Celebrity.

Steve Clarke, 59, who was married to Vardy for just over a year, branded his former wife as “fame hungry” in an explosive interview.

The businessman claims Vardy’s critical columns about Rooney’s jungle appearance are merely attempts to “stay relevant” and keep herself in the spotlight.

“She is just desperate to stay relevant and keep her name in the news,” Clarke told the Daily Mail.

“It is quite pathetic what she is doing by commenting on I’m a Celebrity but it just shows she is so jealous of Coleen. I can guarantee you 100 million per cent she just wants to keep people seeing her picture and her name.”

Clarke added: “When you watch Coleen, she is all smiles and happy. People like her, but when Rebekah was in the jungle people were talking about her resting b***h-face.”

Vardy has been penning critical columns about Rooney’s I’m A Celebrity appearance, writing that she hoped her rival would be forced to “eat penis or humble pie” in the jungle.

She also branded hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly as “two small minded men” in her newspaper column.

In another blistering attack, Vardy slammed BBC Radio 1 presenter Dean McCullough for “cosying up” to Rooney on the show, describing him as “really, really irritating.”

She later mocked Rooney as “the gift that keeps on giving” after her canoe capsized during the celebrities’ race to camp.

Clarke and Vardy met in 2001 when she worked as a secretary at his timeshare company in Banbury, Oxfordshire.

The pair lived in Oxford, London and later Cyprus before their acrimonious split in 2005.

Clarke was Vardy’s second husband, following her marriage to electrician Mark Godden.

Now a director of a health and wellness company, Clarke claims Vardy “is in Coleen’s shadow” and is “only relevant because she is married to a Premier League footballer”.

Clarke expressed sympathy for Vardy’s current husband Jamie, telling the Daily Mail: “If he earned £1million a month she would spend £1.5million. She really is a nightmare.”

The ex-husband suggested Vardy’s recent commentary on I’m A Celebrity is financially motivated, citing her legal bills from the “Wagatha Christie” trial.

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