Rebekah Vardy has reportedly extended an olive branch to Peter Andre by apologising for unflattering remarks she made about him 16 years ago.

The 38-year-old - wife of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy - gave an interview in 2004 in which she described a sexual encounter with the popstar.

"He was the worst lover I've ever had. It wasn't even worth the train fare," she said at the time. "Peter was tiny. The smallest trouser equipment I've ever seen. It was like a miniature chipolata."

The comments have resurfaced in recent months due to Vardy's Wagatha Christie row with Coleen Rooney and according to The Sun, she messaged Andre to apologise last week.

"Rebekah felt really bad Peter was dragged into proceedings and her old interview about him was brought up again," a source told the newspaper.

"She was in a totally different place in her life then and never imagined her words would come back to haunt them both. She wishes him all the best now.

"She messaged him on Instagram to apologise for the public mess but, unfortunately, it fell on deaf ears. He didn't respond."

Vardy's account of Andre's nether regions differs from that of his ex-wife Katie Price, who described his penis as "less of an acorn, more of an oak" and "definitely dickalicious" in one of her autobiographies.