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Rebekah Vardy's footballer ex said she told him she 'upgraded' to Jamie

Before Rebekah Vardy married husband Jamie she had dated other footballers too.

Prior to their relationship beginning in 2014, Rebekah dated former lower league footballer Luke Foster.

Becky, who is attending court this week for the ' Wagatha Christie' legal battle with fellow WAG Coleen Rooney, had a taste for the WAG life through her six-year romance to the defender.

However, Luke went on to call her 'Britain's pushiest WAG' in November 2017 and said her 'relentless quest for stardom' left him skint as he struggled to keep up with her demands.

According to The Mirror, he claimed Rebekah told him she had "upgraded" by moving onto the Leicester striker, who she now has three children with, after their split.

Rebekah is married to Leicester striker Jamie Vardy (Humphrey Nemar / Daily Mirror)

Luke, who is father to her son Taylor, said he was relieved to be free from his ex and actually feels sorry for Jamie because she likes to be in complete control.

However, Rebekah hit back at Luke’s claims in a resolute response when they were made back in November 2017 before she went into the I’m A Celebrity jungle.

In a statement released to the Sunday Mirror, her representatives said: "It’s upsetting Luke felt the need to sell yet another untrue story on the mother of his seven year old son.

"He has already made these claims via a friend in another newspaper over 18 months ago and Mrs Vardy made it very clear then she had separated from Mr Foster months before meeting Jamie Vardy, although as a good mother she kept their family together in the same house for another couple of months so that the children had a ‘normal’ Christmas without being uprooted and disrupted.

"There are many reasons why their relationship broke down but prior to leaving for Australia this month Mrs Vardy was threatened by Mr Foster with the selling of stories, yet she advised us that she would choose not to comment directly about Mr Foster as he is the father of her son and she cares more about her son’s well being and privacy than she does in publicly putting Mr Foster’s name alongside a list of his wrongdoings in the past.

"Mr Foster has a new girlfriend and a new baby, he should put his efforts into focusing on them instead of still trying to hurt Mrs Vardy and in turn hurt his son who will no doubt hear about this story at school."

Luke and Becky met in 2007 when he was a defender for Conference team Oxford United - and the single mum had daughter Megan from a previous relationship.

Recalling their early days, Luke said they got on well and Becky looked after him but she enjoyed life’s luxuries.

The Vardys arriving at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Tuesday (REUTERS)

"Becky liked the finer things in life. She wanted the biggest house on the street, expensive handbags. She drove my Merc, I had a Picasso. She wouldn’t even let me drive my own car," said Luke.

They bought a stunning townhouse in Northampton with an "extortionate" mortgage and Luke said she loved sitting in the box with the other WAGs.

Confessing things turned sour when Luke transferred to League Two side Mansfield Town, he said: "I’d pay for things I couldn’t really afford. I’d get another credit card... eventually it all came crumbling down."

Luke claimed Becky’s interest in him waned when he failed to join a top side and made moves to the likes of Stevenage, Preston and Lincoln.

He said she found it a struggle and claimed she even refused to work in the clothes shop they owned together.

Luke Foster spoke about his relationship with Rebekah Vardy (John Gladwin/Sunday Mirror)

"We couldn’t do everything that she wanted, but that’s life," said Luke. "When I moved from Preston to Lincoln my wages went down and Becky would say: ‘We can’t live on that.’ But it was still more than my mates earned as builders. I’d go ‘What planet are you on?’

"We had a shop: I put £10,000 in it, a loan from my dad. She refused to work there, saying she wouldn’t do it for free and that it was boring. I decided to close it down. Maybe if I’d have been a bit stronger at the time I wouldn’t have got into the mess."

Among Luke’s claims were that Becky banned him from going on a trip to Las Vegas to celebrate promotion and made him drive an old Citroën while she drove his Mercedes.

The pair split up in 2013, but Luke said it was "one of their most amicable times" as they put the interests of their son first.

Luke had got Rebekah a job at the Viper Rooms nightclub in Sheffield, which ironically is where she met Jamie while organising his 27th birthday.

Rebekah is now married to footballer Jamie Vardy (Daily Mirror)

"I was kind of relieved. I thought ‘thank God’, she’s off my hands,” said Luke, who admitted he actually feels sorry for Jamie.

Luke, who has met Jamie on a few occasions, added: "I feel sorry for him because it’s all about control with Becky. It’s my way or the highway with her. I fell out with my mum for six months while with Becky. It was over something trivial but I took Becky’s side. My mum was mortified.

"Becky stopped me from going out with my friends. I even missed out on going to Las Vegas with my Stevenage team-mates.

"We got promoted and the club were paying for us to go to celebrate and I was told I couldn’t go. She said ‘If you go, we are over.’ I wanted to celebrate one of the pinnacles of my career but I couldn’t."

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