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Ekin Karasin

Moment burglars raided Rebekah and Jamie Vardy's £2m Italian mansion as WAG screamed 'I'm going f*****g home!'

Rebekah Vardy was left horrified after armed thugs raided her £2 million Italian home - and left “poo footprints” upstairs.

The WAG and her England star husband Jamie Vardy’s Lake Garda mansion was ransacked of £800,000 worth of valuables in November.

The “horribly violating” scenes played out in the couple’s new ITV docuseries, The Vardys, which showed them watching CCTV footage of the masked men breaking into their home.

As the video played, Rebekah - who was not in the property at the time - was heard shouting to her husband: “No. No, it's not f***** OK! Babe I'm going f***** home. This is not OK.”

She recalled returning to the home - which they moved into when Jamie joined Italian team Cremonese last summer - to find wardrobe doors flung open and valuables missing before CCTV revealed masked intruders had been inside the house.

She said: “Right now, I feel totally violated, the thought of someone being in your house and going through your stuff, but I'm on edge 24/7.”

The reality star - who is known for her lengthy legal battle with Coleen Rooney - added: “Right now I feel like I just don't know what to do for the best, but the thing is I don't quit, I'm not a quitter, but I think when something like this happens it makes you question everything.

“It was just weird. When I came back into the house, I could sense that something wasn't right. Like all my wardrobe doors were open. I knew someone had been in and taken my stuff.”

Cameras captured the aftermath of the raid, with Rebekah asking her children if they had moved her jewellery.

In another moment, her son Taylor, 15, claimed there were “poo footprints” upstairs.

The Vardys share three children – Sofia, 12, Finlay, nine, and Olivia Grace, six – while Rebekah is also the mother of Megan, 23, and Taylor from previous relationships, and the stepmother to Jamie's daughter, Ella, 11.

The thieves broke in through a window and escaped with a stash of the family’s belongings, including jewellery, cash and a Patek Philippe watch.

Her son said robbers had left ‘poo footprints’ (ITV)
Her son said robbers had left ‘poo footprints’ (ITV)

A source for the police told the Daily Mail at the time: “We think the gang have been watching him and his family and timed the break-in to coincide when he was away in Rome.”

Reflecting on the footage in her series, Rebekah said: “You can clearly see five armed guys with crowbars, balaclavas.

“What happened over this weekend has just been a nightmare and has always been one of my biggest biggest fears.”

She also revealed the toll it has taken on her husband.

“Jamie's furious. Naturally this has a knock-on effect with Jamie and football,” she said.

“He always gives 100 per cent but Jamie's best performances are when he knows his family is safe and happy, and at the minute I don't feel either of those.”

The raid affected his performance, with viewers seeing him struggling to score and his team Cremonese sliding towards to the bottom of the Serie A table.

Rebekah told her eldest daughter Megan: “Since the burglary it's been really really quite tough, it's just horrible. I hate being in the house now. It's like that horrible violation.

The armed men raided her bedroom (ITV)
The armed men raided her bedroom (ITV)

“I find it really really hard to talk about still.”

She added: “The kids can sense something is not right, obviously we've tried to keep the burglary stuff as limited as possible.

“Sofia doesn't really know anything, we didn't really tell her anything because I just think you don't want to make it any more stressful. I just want to get out of the house.

“Let's just take the kids away, do something fun and something that entails just forgetting about everything else.”

She then revealed the family were going on a ski trip after the robbery ordeal, although Jamie was unable to join them due to his football schedule.

The Vardys follows the family as they leave their home in Lincolnshire, where they lived while Jamie was playing for Leicester City, to move to Italy after he joined Cremonese.

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