Who is Wayne Bridge’s ex-girlfriend Vanessa Perroncel? How alleged affair rocked the Chelsea camp as former footballer pulls out of KSI fight over personal jibe

Wayne Bridge has dramatically pulled out of his fight with KSI just two days after it was announced after claiming the YouTube star had ‘crossed a line’.

The former Chelsea defender, 44, was due to fight KSI in Manchester on March 29, but he announced his withdrawal from the event in a statement posted on Monday.

Bridge’s decision came after the social media sensation took a jab at him after Misfits Boxing 20 on Saturday evening, in relation to his ex-girlfriend’s alleged affair with John Terry.

But who exactly is Wayne Bridges’ ex-girlfriend Vanessa Perroncel and how did the rumors about her alleged affair with John Terry surface?

Read on below for everything you need to know about the ex-Chelsea left-back’s former partner.

She would become known to football fans as WAG during the 2006 World Cup after Wayne was selected in the England squad for the tournament.

Who is Wayne Bridges ex-girlfriend Vanessa Perroncel?

Vanessa, a lingerie model born in France in 1976, first came to fame when she appeared in a music video for Ali G, the popular character played by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.

Another acting gig came in the unlikely form of the film adaptation of Phanton of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s popular musical.

She would become known to football fans as WAG during the 2006 World Cup after Wayne was selected in the England squad for the tournament.

This made her part of a group that included singer Cheryl Tweedy, formerly Cheryl Cole, and Coleen Rooney.

Bridge dated Vanessa for four years after the pair first met in 2005 and gave birth to their son. Bridge dated Vanessa for four years after the couple first met in 2005 and gave birth to their son, Jaydon Jean Claude, in November 2006, before they met. 2009 split.

What happened between John Terry and Vanessa Perroncel?

Bridge refused to shake Terry’s hand ahead of Manchester City’s match with Chelsea in 2010 after News of the World claimed Terry had been involved in a romantic relationship with Vanessa

In 2009, News of the World claimed that Terry had been romantically involved with Vanessa, who was still dating Bridge at the time.

The pair had been close friends for several years and were once even neighbors in a gated community in Surrey.

Wayne played alongside John at Chelsea for five years, where the pair won two Premier League titles under Jose Mourinho, before moving to Manchester City in 2008.

While Perroncel challenged the credibility of the story, which later prompted the newspaper to apologise, Bridge refused to shake Terry’s hand ahead of the 2010 Manchester City-Chelsea match.

Are Wayne Bridge and John Terry still friends?

The fallout also led Wayne to announce his retirement from international football in 2010 so that he could avoid Terry in the England set-up, where the latter was stripped of England in the wake of the scandal ahead of the 2010 World Cup.

Both players were also grilled about the situation by rival supporters and the pair are no longer friends over the incident.

The fallout also led Wayne to announce his retirement from international football in 2010 so that he could avoid Terry in the England set-up, where the latter was captain at the time.

However, following speculation about Terry’s alleged affair with Perroncel, he was stripped of the England captaincy ahead of the 2010 World Cup.

Bridge said at the time that the England squad would be ‘untenable and potentially divisive’ if he and Terry were in the country’s ranks.

In 2022, the pair also avoided a collision when it became known that they were in the same hotel during the World Cup in Qatar.