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Rebekah Vardy addresses Wagatha Christie scanda: ‘Hell will freeze over before I apologise to Coleen Rooney’

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Rebekah Vardy has claimed that she’s finally “over” the “Wagatha Christie” drama, seven years after Coleen Rooney accused her of selling stories about her to the tabloids – although “hell will freeze over” before the 44-year-old apologises. In July 2022, Vardy lost her libel case against Rooney after a judge found that the wife of footballer Wayne Rooney had proven that her claims about Vardy were “substantially true”. Years later, Rebekah Vardy and her husband Jamie are returning to the spotlight for a new reality show – with Vardy saying that she’s “so f***ing bored” of addressing the libel drama. Rebekah Vardy with husband Jamie (Getty) “I’m never, ever, going to apologise for something I didn’t do… Hell will freeze over before I do that,” she said, according to The Telegraph. “It’s over, it’s done, I’m not going to carry on …

The NFL’s Rooney Rule is latest target of DEI backlash : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

The NFL logo adorns the uniform of a referee prior to the start of Super Bowl LX between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots on February 8, 2026 in Santa Clara, Calif. Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images North America Stay up to date with our Up First newsletter sent every weekday morning. The OG of DEI hiring policies is facing an existential challenge. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has advanced his threats to take enforcement action against the NFL over its Rooney Rule, issuing the league an investigative subpoena on Wednesday. That makes professional football just the latest target of MAGA backlash to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The Rooney Rule was adopted in 2003 amid an outcry over the lack of opportunities for Black coaches in a league dominated by Black talent. The thinking was that a concerted effort to bring in more minority candidates would help address the imbalance. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has called on the NFL to suspend its …

‘I don’t know what could top that’: debut author Jem Calder on being discovered by Sally Rooney | Fiction

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Jem Calder’s writing career had a fairytale start. Sally Rooney emailed him, impressed with a short story he’d submitted to the literary magazine she was editing soon after Conversations with Friends came out. It was the first story he’d ever completed. Calder was already “a huge fan” of Rooney’s, so the whole thing was surreal, he tells me. “I can’t really imagine what could top that, to be honest.” That story ultimately ended up in Reward System, Calder’s 2022 collection of six interconnected tales following a cast of sad young things living in an unnamed city. It was hailed as a book of the year; a review in this paper placed Calder among “the most talented young writers of fiction at work today”. Now, his debut novel, I Want You to Be Happy, picks up some of the themes of the first book: the trials of modern love, millennial ennui, consumer culture, technology, political and ecological doom. And it’s already got some famous fans: David Szalay has sung its praises, while Andrew O’Hagan says Calder is his “new favourite writer”. At the …