Rebekah Vardy seems for the primary time within the trailer for her husband Jamie Vardy’s Netflix documentary, UNTOLD UK: JAMIE VARDY, launched on Wednesday. The 90-minute movie traces Jamie’s journey from manufacturing unit shifts and part-time non-league soccer to Premier League stardom, together with his heavy ingesting and partying phases.
Emotional Reflections on a ‘Loopy’ Profession
Rebekah seems visibly moved as she discusses Jamie’s extraordinary path. She admits they “could not reside a standard life” after his Premier League breakthrough. Jamie describes his profession as “loopy” and confesses, “I do not understand how I did it,” with archive footage of his objectives taking part in alongside.
Jamie sums himself up in a single phrase for Netflix producers: a “t**t.” He explains the leap from non-league to the Premier League: “I needed to do every thing to show that is the place I am presupposed to be.”
Robust Instances and a Pivotal Intervention
Rebekah recounts difficult moments, together with Jamie lacking her first being pregnant scan with daughter Sofia because of nightlife extra. She confronted him at a Sheffield nightclub, the place he was ingesting with mates as an alternative of attending.
Jamie, now 39, revealed the strain of signing for Leicester fueled his partying, stemming from years of rejection. “He’d at all times been rejected and been informed he wasn’t ok,” Rebekah shares. “And so naturally you do begin to imagine that is true.”
She warned him: “You’re gonna screw every thing up that you have labored so bl***y laborious for should you do not change your way of life selections.” Their hours-long discuss acted like remedy. “I am not telling you to cease ingesting. I am simply telling you to rein it in,” she suggested. Jamie credit it totally: “100 per cent what I wanted.” He turned his life round shortly.
Love Story and Household
Rebekah met Jamie in 2014 whereas organizing his twenty seventh party at The Viper Rooms nightclub in Sheffield. Three months later, she was pregnant with Sofia. She recollects his pursuit: “He was probably the most demanding particular person you had ever met… He simply pursued me.”
The couple married in 2016 at Peckforton Fort in Cheshire, with friends like Louis Tomlinson, Tinchy Stryder, and Leicester Metropolis teammates. Some relations, together with Jamie’s mom Lisa, stepfather Phil, and daughter Ella from a previous relationship, didn’t attend.
They’ve three kids collectively: Sofia (born 2014), Finlay (2017), and Olivia (2020). Rebekah has Megan, 17, and Taylor, 11, from earlier relationships—Jamie has adopted Megan. She is stepmother to Ella, 11.
The documentary streams on Netflix beginning Could 12.
