The mystery of the Instagram Story. When Coleen Rooney believed one of her friends was leaking rumors about her to the press, she used a very 21st-century method to catch the alleged culprit: social media.Rooney made headlines in 2019 when she claimed to have caught an acquaintance who was sharing false stories about her to the U.K.
newspaper The Sun. She allegedly discovered the betrayal by posting fake information about herself via Instagram after blocking all but one person from viewing her Stories.The technique was clever, but that’s not why the story went viral.
The would-be sleuth is the wife of English soccer star Wayne Rooney, who is Manchester United’s top goal-scorer of all time.
The alleged perpetrator wasn’t a nobody, either: Coleen claimed that the leaker was Rebekah Vardy, who is married to Jamie Vardy, another very famous soccer player.“Over the past five months I have posted a series of false stories to see if they made their way into the Sun newspaper,” Coleen tweeted in October 2019. “And you know what, they did! … Now I know for certain which account/individual it’s come from.
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