Rebekah Vardy rebukes Piers Morgan for calling her a 'WAG'
'Oh come on Piers, that term is so dated,' 34-year-old says
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Your support makes all the difference.Rebekah Vardy has rebuked Piers Morgan for calling her a WAG, branding the term “dated” and “derogatory”.
Vardy is a mother of three and an ambassador for charities including Young Minds and Enough Abuse who also happens to be the wife of Leicester FC and England footballer Jamie.
The couple, who married in August, sat down for a joint interview with Good Morning Britain’s Morgan which was broadcast on Monday morning.
The former Mirror editor asked Vardy her thoughts on “being a chief WAG”.
“Oh come on Piers, that term is so dated,” she said. “You can think of something better than that surely.”
After Morgan asked the “new term” to describe a woman who happens to be dating or married to a footballer and explained the term just stands for “wife and girlfriend”, Vardy said: “I know it does but it’s just a bit derogatory.”
“I’m not just a wife and a girlfriend, I’m a Mum and there are so many more of the wives and the girlfriends that have careers and actually do other stuff instead of just you know sitting and shopping.”
When Morgan asked what he will call Vardy given that she doesn’t like the terms, she replied aptly: “My name, like I would call you yours.”
The term was coined in the early noughties and gained prominence when parts of the media avidly documented what footballer’s other halves were doing during the 2006 World cup in Germany. The tabloid’s fascination with them has often included delving into their past lives and relationships before they met their husbands and their shopping and nightlife habits since meeting their partners.
Vardy, who has amassed a reputation for standing up for herself and her family to trolls on Twitter, later teased Morgan after he tweeted: “BREAKING: Jamie Vardy’s wife Rebekah Vardy calls for the term ‘WAG’ to be banned’.
“How unlike you to totally over sensationalise something,” she replied.
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