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Rebekah Vardy's first husband was mortified when she slept with Peter Andre

Before Rebekah Vardy married her current husband, Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, she was married to electrician Mark Godden.

Rebekah met Mark at their local pub when she was just 18.

The WAG, who is currently embroiled in the 'Wagatha Christie' legal battle with Coleen Rooney, was working as a barmaid at a pub in Witney, Oxon, while Mark was playing in the darts team.

After a whirlwind romance, they tied the knot in 2001 in a sweet £7,000 beach wedding in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

According to The Mirror, however, the marriage quickly deteriorated just weeks later, with Becky admitting: "I felt like I should marry him but quickly realised I didn’t love him."

Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy (PA)

During an interview with The Mirror in 2017, Mark called the wedding "perfect" and said Becky looked "beautiful" in her £1,000 dress and tiara.

Some family members stayed with them in Mexico for two weeks, but Mark said his new bride "changed" when the newlyweds were left for a final week alone.

"Back home, it got worse. She moved into a promotions job and said she had an overnight job in London," he told The Mirror in 2017.

"That’s when she slept with Peter Andre and later sold her story. She was pictured in her bra and knickers."

The couple, who had matching Chinese love symbol tattoos on their arms, were still married when she slept with the Mysterious Girl singer but they were separated at the time.

During an interview with The Sun, Rebekah spoke of the size of Andre’s manhood, saying: "It was like a chipolata."

She added: "I told my husband I was going to London to work. (Andre) was really sweet and led me upstairs.

"I told him I was married. I wanted to be honest and I knew my marriage was coming to an end.

"He stripped me and took his top off. He had great muscles. I thought he was going to be a fantastic lover. Then he took his trousers off! It wasn’t worth the train fare.

"Peter was tiny. The smallest trouser equipment I've ever seen. It was like a miniature chipolata."

Rebekah has since apologised to Andre for making the claims about his penis size and said it is something she "deeply regrets" after feeling "pressured".

While Rebekah and Mark were separated when she slept with the singer, they were still married and he received abuse from some of his colleagues at work.

"I was still married to her and got such a ribbing at work. They stuck up the picture in the toilet. She’d told me she was meeting the singer for work," Mark told The Mirror.

"She was trying to break into modelling and she looks for fellas who try to enhance her lifestyle."

The couple have three kids together (PA)

Mark, a production supervisor at an electronics company, also claimed Rebekah had costly habits and described her as "a good-looking girl but very expensive to look after."

"She used to spend all my money and thought nothing of buying £160 jeans, which was a lot all those years ago," he said.

"Becky’s always loved designer clothes. When I got a £4,500 redundancy from one job she spent it."

When Rebekah appeared on I'm A Celebrity in 2017, Mark said it was "payback time" and he'd been voting for her to suffer as many Bushtucker trials as possible in the jungle.

Mark and Rebekah got divorced in 2003 and he now lives with his partner and their kids.

Addressing Mark's claims, a representative for Rebekah said: "Perhaps his memory of the marriage isn’t entirely clear as many of his claims aren’t accurate.

"There was no infidelity whilst she was married to Mark and once they agreed to separate, she went on to live her own life, as did Mark.

"She was a very damaged teenager when she met Mark. He proposed when she was still a teenager and she agreed because she felt like it was the right thing to do as he and his family had been so good to her.

"She quickly realised she shouldn’t have married him and they agreed to separate.

"It was kinder to separate than to stay in a loveless marriage, no one can blame a teenage girl for that.

"Becky would continue to wish Mr Godden all the best with his life."

Rebekah's second marriage to businessman Steve Clarke ended after 10 months.

She also had a long-term relationship with former lower league footballer Luke Foster, who is the father of her son Taylor, but they split in 2013.

Peter Andre has defended the size of his manhood. (Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)

Becky then found the love of her life, Leicester striker Jamie Vardy, while working as a party planner and organising his 27th birthday night at a club in Sheffield.

"He was the most demanding person you had ever met in your life, ever. He just pursued me," she revealed during her stint in the I'm A Celebrity jungle.

Becky wasn't keen to start anything initially but was eventually wooed by the former England footballer and they are now married with three children together.

In an interview with The Sunday Mirror, she said: "When we did go for a drink he made me laugh a lot but mainly I thought, 'This guy's insane'. But he won me over."

Becky added: "It's just the same as with his career - he never gives up!"

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