Footballers Wives is officially being made into a musical - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Celebrity Footballers Wives is officially being made into a musical By You Magazine - October 22, 2019 Footballers Wives was one of the best things to come out of British TV in the noughties. Our obsession with WAGs (the wives and girlfriends of footballers) combined with the dramatisation of their crazy lifestyles, relationships and constant tension was simply a genius plot for TV. And judging by the recent real-life feud between Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy, it’s clear that we still can’t get enough of them. Alamy Stock Photos Hilariously dubbed ‘Wagatha Christie’, the tedious social media drama between Rooney and Vardy has not only led to endless memes and become the subject of many group chats, it appears that it has actually inspired a reboot of Footballers Wives. And this time, it will be hitting theatre stages. That’s right, Footballers Wives The Musical has been confirmed as in the works, and we could not be more excited. Alamy Stock Photos The news of the musical was announced by screenwriter Maureen Chadwick, who revealed that the fictional series would be adapted into a stage production, focusing on the first season of the show, which ran for five seasons airing from 2003 to 2006. Speaking to Radio Times, Chadwick, who was a co-creator on the original series, revealed that the musical will be hitting theatres in 2020. However, don’t expect to see the original cast in the production. Instead, the makers are currently preparing for their hunt for new talent to star in the show which will kick off at the end of the year. Meanwhile Kath Gotts has been appointed to write the music and the lyrics. Alamy Stock Photos If the reaction to the Rooney vs Vardy drama has taught us anything, it is that the world is ready for a new generation of fictionalised WAGS. In fact, during the peak of the drama last week, Liz Lake, producer and writer of Footballers’ Wives told Radio Times: ‘If there’s an appetite for it, and enough people want it, it would be worth having that conversation… I think we’d prefer to have an update than a reboot, a revival moving it forward.’ Perhaps that’s where the idea for the musical was birthed? Either way, we’re ready for it. Bring on 2020! RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR 50 of the best celebrity Halloween costumes of all time Shirley Ballas ‘ Strictly gave me back my hope’ Davina McCall discusses how men can help women going through the menopause Popular in Celebrity TV chef Gino D Acampo on Sardinia Sophia Loren and scary salads May 25, 2017 The Evergreen Goddess Exercise guru Diana Moran on looking fit and July 10, 2017 More more Julianne Moore November 13, 2017 Author Jill Mansell on designer notebooks commissioning art and the family January 16, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES Kelly Hoppen on vodka vintage finds and being a April 4, 2018 ‘ I have no regrets’ Millie Mackintosh on divorce debt and reuniting May 20, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES TV presenter and tennis player Annabel Croft shares her July 1, 2018 Stella Parton ‘ Dolly and I have always been close’ August 12, 2018 Anna Friel on getting jeered in the street shared parenting with September 23, 2018 Queen of primetime Charlotte Riley on juggling rising stardom with pregnancy October 21, 2018 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved