Get all your news in one place.
100’s of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Entertainment
Kyle O'Sullivan

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

Rebekah Vardy's forgotten first husband is nowhere near as famous as her current one.

Many years before she found love with Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, Becky was married to an electrician who she met down the local pub.

The WAG, who is currently embroiled in the 'Wagatha Christie' legal battle with Coleen Rooney, was just 18-years-old when she began a whirlwind romance with Mark Godden.

Becky was working as a barmaid at a pub in Witney, Oxon, while Mark was playing in the darts team - and in the autumn of 2001 the pair got married in a lavish £7,000 beach wedding in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

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

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.

Rebekah Vardy on her wedding day to first husband Mark Godden (Paul Tonge)
Rebekah has been married to Jamie Vardy since 2016 (LightRocket via Getty Images)

Get the news you want straight to your inbox. Sign up for a Mirror newsletter here

"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."

Mark Godden was Becky's first husband (Paul Tonge)

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."

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.

(Gourley/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

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 is married to Leicester City's Jamie Vardy (Becky Vardy Instagram)
The couple have three kids together (PA)

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.

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!"

Do you have a story to share? Email webfeatures@trinitymirror.com

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100’s of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.