Coleen Rooney / Rebekah Vardy - The Sun hacking instagram accounts?

cheesyboy · 9 Oct 2019 at 12:04

So this, from Coleen is trending on UK Twitter:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1181864136155828224

And it's bloody delicious, even if it is the first time I've heard of any of these ridiculous fake stories, and the first time I've heard of Rebekah Vardy (but realise that she's Jamie's spouse).

Now, of course, I initially took it as being a straight-up take-down of someone deliberately leaking stories to the UK's worst red-top (and I still hope that's true

), but I wonder if this could be the start of another 'hacking' scandal - did The Sun hack Ms Vardy's account, even after the fallout of the News of the World a decade or so ago?

And, yes, this is not real news, but it's bloody fun anyway

cheesyboy · 9 Oct 2019 at 12:12

Terminal_Boy said:
What does this have to do with “hacking”?

I was just speculating. My real hope is that Vardy was just doing it to be a straight up bitch

E:

or were you being anal about a definition of 'hacking'?

cheesyboy · 9 Oct 2019 at 12:23

Terminal_Boy said:
Would you consider it hacking if you told someone a secret and they told someone else without your permission?

My point on 'hacking' was the possibility that Vardy's account was being accessed by The Sun illegally. That they had 'hacked' it - so that Coleen was correct that the leak was from Vardy's account, but that it wasn't Vardy herself who was leaking.

cheesyboy · 9 Oct 2019 at 12:58

dowie said:
OP, this isn't "hacking" by any description, its a straight up betrayal of confidence/breach of privacy etc.. and a smart trap laid by the victim to catch out the snake.

Yup, this was nicely played by Coleen, she's outed the rat and there are probably other WAGs out there who have had gossip published about them too and now have strong suspicions of who was responsible.

Eh? You don't know that. There is no evidence the account was being accessed by the Sun. At best Vardy could claim some staff member handle's her PR/social media and was the one who passed on the info but it seems quite likely it was actually Vardy - you have no basis to claim that "it wasn't Vardy herself who was leaking" and calling this "hacking" is silly... it just conflates this story with the actual phone hacking scandal.

I was just speculating, mostly as a response to how utterly delighted I was by Coleen's sleuthing and catching a rat - slightly mitigating my joy with the possibility that it wasn't all pure unfiltered bitchiness, lest I get too carried away.

cheesyboy · 9 Oct 2019 at 13:07

SPG said:
I am annoyed with myself for even reading this thread but never mind posting but

A - Who cares
B - Friends will gossip behind your back

On a human level, it's just a beautiful story. A bit of brightness and levity in the dark of recent news cycles

cheesyboy · 9 Oct 2019 at 13:13

McGray said:
Did you even read the OP before resuming your vomiting? You're doing a good job of covering every thread on this board for sure.

Post without comment, and get whinged at for being an RSS feed, post with commentary and get dowie et al rinsing you for not sticking to the knitting