Season 1 – Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story

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Oct 2023

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Coleen Rooney becomes an amateur web sleuth to figure out why private information about herself and her family kept turning up in the media, exposing one of the greatest tabloid news stories in Britain.

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Jessie Thompson

Independent (UK)

10/19/2023

5/5

Director Lucy Bowden perfects the balance between the camp elements to this tale while never losing sight of the fundamental cruelty at its heart.

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Carol Midgley

The Times (UK)

10/19/2023

3/5

Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story is exactly the sort of frivolous escapism you need.

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Anita Singh

Daily Telegraph (UK)

10/19/2023

2/5

If The Real Wagatha Story embraced the silliness of all this, it might make a fun show. But it takes itself deathly seriously.

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Dónal Lynch

Sunday Independent (Ireland)

02/05/2024

The Rooneys lived it, but for the rest of us it was the deliciously low-stakes drama that had us hooked.

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Aidan Smith

Scotsman

10/23/2023

Truly, I can’t decide on my favourite moment.

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Liz Kocan

Decider

10/19/2023

The series is definitely entertaining when you look at it on its surface... but if you dig deeper and realize the stress that this honestly kind of dumb situation wrought, it is downright ridiculous that we care at all.

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Shaun R

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I’ve stayed away from this nonsense until I watched it last week. It’s actually not a bad documentary, those who are interested will probably love it. They milk the 3rd episode however, and should have fit it in 2 episodes.

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Episode 1

Aired Oct 18, 2023

Part 1

Coleen, a sixteen-year-old from Liverpool, has her romance with rising football sensation Wayne Rooney ignite a media frenzy; in 2017, her private posts were leaked to The Sun; Coleen, like a master detective, sets a trap to catch the perpetrator.

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Episode 2

Aired Oct 18, 2023

Part 2

Wayne's new job takes Coleen to America, leaving her longing for her family and turning to social media for a lifeline; Coleen unearths a hidden feature: controlling who can see her private posts; she slyly excludes everyone except Rebekah Vardy.

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Episode 3

Aired Oct 18, 2023

Part 3

Coleen braces for the fight of her life with evidence against Rebekah, but a shocking revelation emerges, threatening to jeopardize her case; both take the stand, exposing hidden truths and revealing the startling reality beneath the alluring facade.

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Director: Lucy Bowden
Network: Hulu
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: British English
Release Date: Oct 18, 2023

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