A Footballers’ Wives musical is officially in the works

A musical version of Footballers’ Wives is being prepared for the stage, it has been confirmed. 

The hit TV series following the off-field antic of wives and girlfriends aired from 2002 to 2006.

Maureen Chadwick, one of Footballers’ Wives original creators, confirmed to RadioTimes.com that a musical version of the show is being written for the stage.

The adaption will be based on the first series of the show, which followed Tanya Turner and her fraught marriage to footballer, Jason Turner.

It is thought that original cast members would be difficult to attract for the show.

Producer Liz Lake told RadioTimes.com that there are currently no plans to bring the series back to TV, but she would welcome the opportunity.

She said: “If there’s an appetite for it, and enough people want it, it would be worth having that conversation.

“Whatever job I do, I get people telling me they loved Footballers’ Wives. It was an escape and a bit of refreshing camp, but it was still really bold storytelling.

“I think we’d prefer to have an update than a reboot, a revival moving it forward.

“It’s more than just nostalgia, it’s about seeing what life is like now.”

Zoe Lucker, who played Turner in the original, said: “The thing that would worry me is, what if it wasn’t as good?”

“I always panic about that. The fact that people still talk about it the way they do, I would hate for any of us to go back and for any of us to be disappointed and it would be such a shame.”

Earlier this month, TV fans called for the hit show to return in the wake of the Coleen Rooney vs Rebekah Vardy drama. 

The two WAGs became locked in a war of words after Rooney accussed Vardy’s Instagram account of being linked to information leaking from her private posts. 

With additional reporting by Press Association.