Let no one doubt the endless capacity for reinvention of Rebekah Vardy. She’s been a football WAG, a reality TV show contestant, a pop culture icon (after her Instagram account was cited by Coleen Rooney as the source of media leaks about her in the “Wagatha Christie” affair), a hate figure and an unsuccessful libel litigant.
Now Vardy has repositioned herself yet again, fronting up a Channel 4 documentary about the harm caused to herself and others – including the hushing up of child sexual abuse, she alleges – by the faith to which she once belonged. A cynic might suggest this was a bid to repair her public image, and fund some of the estimated £2m in costs she was ordered to pay Rooney. But this is an honest investigation into a subject Vardy knows and feels deeply about. And – whisper it – she’s really not bad at it.
