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LONDON — Coleen Rooney has largely lived in the shadow of her far more famous husband, Wayne, a soccer star who played for one of the world’s biggest clubs, Manchester United, and anchored England’s national team for a decade.
Though Ms. Rooney is not an infrequent presence in the British tabloids, she revealed a different side of herself on Wednesday: a detective who ran her own sting operation to expose the person who had betrayed details about her family life to one of those tabloids.
Her investigation, as detailed in a post on her Instagram account, came with another twist: Her betrayer appeared to be Rebekah Vardy, the wife of Jamie Vardy, a Premier League star and former forward for the English national team.