Rebekah and Jamie Vardy Set Reality Series at ITV

Rebekah Vardy, who infamously took fellow footballer’s wife Coleen Rooney to court over an Instagram post, is set to get her own reality show.

Titled “The Vardys,” the series, from Orchard Studios, is due to hit U.K. network ITV (and its streaming platform ITVX) later this year. The showrunner for “The Vardys” is Josh Jacobs.

The series will feature Rebekah and her husband Jamie Vardy, a former soccer player for Leicester City. He has since moved to Cremonese in Italy. The show will follow the couple and their children as they decamp to the continent to start over.

Rebekah Vardy found herself in the headlines in 2019 after Coleen Rooney (wife of England soccer star Wayne Rooney) revealed on social media she had hatched a plot to find out which of her friends had been selling stories about her to the tabloids by posting fake news on a private Instagram account. She blocked her followers one by one until the only person left was Vardy, who, she concluded, was the one selling the stories. The fallout, which made waves across the nation, earned Rooney the nickname “Wagatha Christie” (“Wags” being the collective term for footballers’ wives and girlfriends in the U.K.)

Vardy sued Rooney for libel but after a showstopping 2022 trial that was covered widely by the press, the judge found for Rooney, leaving Vardy with an enormous legal bill and her reputation in tatters. The trial inspired a play and TV special while Rooney went on to have her own series on Disney+.

Now, according to ITV’s press release, Vardy is “ready for the next chapter.”

“As she manages the emotional and physical upheaval of the new move, she reflects on her recent challenges in the U.K., intent on putting the ‘Wagatha’ drama behind her and focusing on an exciting new chapter,” reads the release.

ITV’s commissioning editor for entertainment and reality, Louise Major, who ordered the show alongside Katie Rawcliffe, said: “We’re thrilled to be working with the Vardys on this series for ITV1 and ITVX. At a pivotal moment in their lives, this is a rare and revealing look behind the headlines – from the highs of Jamie’s football legacy to the realities of starting over as a family, with Rebekah sharing her reflections on one of the most talked-about stories of the last decade.”

Dan Grabiner and Nat Lippiett, executive producers for Orchard Studios, added: “The Vardys are an iconic and brilliantly entertaining family, and this behind-the-scenes insight into their big move shows them as you’ve never seen them before: candid, unfiltered and completely unpredictable. Welcome to the Vardy party.”