Vardy v Rooney viewers were ‘praying’ for Peter Andre after Rebekah Vardy’s ‘chipolata’ comments were mentioned during the Channel 4 drama.
The first installment of the highly-anticipated two-parter aired on Wednesday, which follows the publicised case of Coleen Rooney and Vardy which was dubbed as Wagatha Christie.
Despite the judge ruling that Rebekah was the source of the leak in regards to stories about Rooney, the mother-of-five has vehemently denied leaking stories to the press in exchange for money.
During the debut episode, Rooney’s (Chanel Cresswell) barrister David Sherbourne (Michael Sheen), attempted to prove that his client’s claims were ‘substantially true’.
Vardy was asked about a 2004 News Of The World interview, in which she described a sexual encounter with TV personality Andre, that carried the headline: ‘Peter’s hung like a small chipolata, shaved, slobbery, lasts five minutes.’
Mr Sherbourne read out that Vardy said in the interview that the singer had the ‘smallest trouser equipment I’ve ever seen.’
Members of the court could be heard giggling after Sherbourne read the comment.
Viewers quickly took to Twitter to express their shock, with one person writing: ‘Channel 4s #VardyvRooney show isn’t doing Peter Andre any favours.’
‘If I was Peter Andre I’d be fuming right now,’ another added.
The Mysterious Girl singer spoke out following Vardy’s comments in court in May this year.
He questioned how people can claim to care about ‘mental health’ and ‘being kind’ when he’s been ‘the butt of all jokes’ for such a long time.
‘I kept quiet didn’t say anything, and I let everyone have their laugh and say what they wanted to say. Yes, now she’s gone to court and admitted the story was made up and did that because her ex husband forced her to, and it was all made up,’ he shared on Instagram, referring to how Vardy said she was ‘forced into a situation’ by her ex in talking to the press.
‘It is something that I deeply regret… It is not nice to read and I understand why this is being used,’ she also said in court.
Andre continued in his video: ‘Put that all aside and think how it feels if a man or if I had said this about her anatomy or if a man said something about a woman’s anatomy, made up something whatever, you can use your imagination about saying something very unflattering, there would be outrage. But because it’s been said about me, it’s been the butt of all jokes, I’ve taken it for 15 years.’
The musician went on: ‘I know some of you are gonna go, “get over it, don’t say anything.” You gotta understand when it goes on and on and being brought up, and even worse it’s been brought up in the High Court and the lawyer is bringing it up having a go at her for bringing up something in News Of The World that went to four million people and then it’s brought up in court that goes to a lot more than four million people, it’s brought up again, and the only one that sits there and takes hit after hit about it is me.’
He added that he’s ‘been laughing about it for a while’ but wants people to consider ‘how it would feel if it was the other way round.’
‘Ok yes, we all know now it was just a made-up story, but it’s a little more serious than that – and I don’t think it’s fair something like this can happen again and again and we talk about all sorts of things, about mental health, about being kind, all that sort of stuff, and nothing seems to have changed. You know, there you go.’
Metro.co.uk has reached out to Peter Andre’s reps for comment.
Vardy v Rooney: Courtroom Drama returns tomorrow at 9pm on Channel 4.
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