My drama-filled call with Rebekah Vardy that blew up her row with Coleen Rooney - and how I know they'll NEVER forgive each other. Read ALISON BOSHOFF's definitive Wagatha account

So Coleen’s in the jungle, Becky is living like a queen in Dubai, and the Wagatha Christie saga which has entertained us so richly since October 9, 2019 is back in the headlines.

I’m A Celebrity starts on Sunday and one of the great questions which it may answer will be whether Mrs Rooney has got over the experience of being dragged to court by Becky Vardy over that notorious ‘Its… Rebekah Vardy’s account’ tweet.

I had a part to play in the drama which unfolded and can say with confidence that neither woman will ever forgive the other for the events which led them to court in the summer of 2022.

Indeed, legal action over Coleen’s costs, which Becky as the losing party is required to pay, grinds on. Becky says that the costs are ridiculously high – Coleen says that’s because she made the case so complicated. ‘It’s her mess’ is the attitude.

A lively dislike still burns, grudges are held and in Coleen’s own inimitable words she remains ‘fewmin’ over the painful way it played out.

ITVX is now streaming the three-part Disney+ documentary, made just after the case concluded with Becky losing her libel suit.

In it Coleen steadily and calmly over nearly two-and-a-half hours lays out how she came to suspect a ‘sneak’ of selling information from her private Instagram to The Sun, and how she set a trap to catch her ‘snitch’.

It’s remarkable to see how the affair, which was treated by the media and public as an absurd entertaining spectacle, was very serious and very traumatic for her. She weeps as she recalls the toll that the case, which she was warned she was likely to lose at one point, took on her, and how her father said that she ‘wasn’t herself’ any more.

I’m in the doc, discussing the day, October 10, when Becky Vardy phoned me from her holiday in Dubai and made the famous remark that ‘arguing with Coleen is like arguing with a pigeon. You can tell it that you are right and it is wrong but it’s still going to shit in your hair.’

It was a phrase so extraordinary that I wasn’t quite sure that I had heard correctly and couldn’t in a scramble imagine how I would write the word pigeon in shorthand. But it was typical of Becky, as combative as they come, even at that vulnerable moment.

I’d come to interview Becky after a series of run-ins with her agent, Caroline Watt.

You may recall Caroline wasn’t well enough to come to court and explain how her phone had come to be knocked out of her hands and into the North Sea, meaning evidence on it had been lost.

In court, a number of text messages between Caroline and Becky were revealed including an exchange in which Becky asked Caroline to leak a story about a football colleague of her husband Jamie and told her: ‘I want paying for this.’ In another exchange Caroline mocked Coleen’s complaint that someone she ‘trusted’ had been selling stories about her, saying to Becky: ‘It wasn’t someone she trusted. It was me.’ Coleen’s barrister David Sherborne memorably argued that if you buy a gun and load it and hand it to someone else to fire, you are culpable.

Caroline was not a professional publicist – she was a friend of Becky’s who was doing the job – and when I wrote an unflattering profile of Becky a few years before she was absolutely livid and emailed me to tell me what she thought of me in stingingly personal terms.

We had a back and forth, and then spoke again a few times, whenever Becky was in the headlines, such as when she made her own trip to the I’m A Celebrity jungle. Caroline’s view was that Becky was the victim of some difficult family circumstances and had been married to some rotten men, and that it wasn’t fair to characterise her as grabby, ambitious or on the make.

After the Wagatha tweet I asked Caroline if Becky would agree to be interviewed and she said Becky had decided she would speak only to me, as people would know that I wasn’t a fan of hers so it would be a fair article.

I wondered, waiting for the call, what on earth she would have to say for herself. Coleen’s tweet had described a carefully-executed mission to find a mole among her group of friends. How would Becky spin her way out of this one?

Becky was clearly upset, and spent a lot of time weeping about the fact that she was seven-months pregnant and being trolled. She was desperate for the public whipping to stop – most of the conversation was about how terrible this was for her.

Becky told me: ‘I thought she was my friend but she completely annihilated me. Coleen said: “You know, I always really liked you, which makes it harder.”’

Becky was convinced that she could prove via a forensic cyber expert that she was not to blame.

I asked her if someone on her team, like Caroline, or a family member, could have been to blame and she said no, absolutely not. She did say that many people had access to her Instagram account.

She said she was particularly mystified by Coleen’s motivation, saying: ‘It makes me wonder if there is more to this than meets the eye. For someone to go public with something like this, there has to be something bigger behind it.

‘I keep on thinking about it and trying to figure it out. It’s like trying to work out how someone does a magic trick. I don’t know what the reason is — if I had the answer I would be over the moon.’

She added: ‘I don’t have any hatred or bitterness. She did what she thought was necessary. That was her decision and she will have to live with it.’

I asked if she wanted an apology. ‘I think it’s gone beyond an apology, hasn’t it?’ she said with absolute grit in her voice. I knew at that moment that there would be some kind of legal consequence. Becky disastrously dug in and brought a libel action which has gone down as an immense tactical blunder. She still maintains that she wasn’t the snitch and that Coleen – the shitting pigeon of her metaphor – is the real villain who has ruined her life.