After days of drama at the High Court in London, anyone following the Wagatha Christie trial with Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney is now on the edge of their seats waiting to see what happens next.
19.05.2022 - 14:11 / ok.co.uk
Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy's lawyers have shared their closing statements at Royal Courts of Justice on Thursday 19 May. Rebekah's Instagram account was accused by Coleen of leaking fake stories about her in October 2019 in a now-infamous Instagram post dubbed Wagatha Christie.
Rebekah, 40, denies the allegations and is suing 36 year old Coleen for libel. Coleen's barrister David Sherborne started the final hearing of the seven-day long trial by apologising for her and her 36 year old husband Wayne's absence as the pair have jetted off on holiday with their four children.
He said: "They intended no disrespect to the court." Mr Sherborne then claimed that Rebekah "regularly and frequently" leaked information from his client's private Instagram account and explained that Jamie's wife's evidence is "entirely unreliable". Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter He said Rebekah's case had been "shrunk to almost nothing if not entirely disintegrated," adding that there's a "slither of a case".
"It's simply a case of whether Mrs Vardy, an admitted leaker herself, knew what Ms Watt was doing,'' Sherborne said, referring to Rebekah's former agent Caroline Watt. Mr Sherborne said Mrs Justice Karen Steyn has to rule on two things – whether the post was "substantially true" and if it was a "statement of public interest".
Coleen's barrister said there had been a "deliberate deletion and destruction" of evidence, the court had not heard from key witnesses, including Caroline or the journalists who published the alleged leaked stories, and he said Jamie, 35, had "remained silent... at least in this courtroom." Speaking about the missing WhatsApp messages between
.After days of drama at the High Court in London, anyone following the Wagatha Christie trial with Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney is now on the edge of their seats waiting to see what happens next.
ITV’s Lorraine Kelly offered up her thoughts on the ongoing court case involving Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney on her show today, telling the two women to “get over themselves”. Rebekah is currently suing her fellow WAG for libel following the infamous 'Wagatha Christie' post back in 2019, which saw Coleen accuse Rebekah of leaking stories from her private Instagram. Rebekah immediately denied the claim and subsequently launched legal action which resulted in seven days at the High Court.
Rebekah Vardy has swiftly left the Royal Courts of Justice for the third time in the seven-day Wagatha Christie trial. Rebekah's Instagram account was accused by Coleen Rooney of leaking fake stories about her in October 2019 in a now-infamous Instagram post dubbed Wagatha Christie. Rebekah, 40, denies the allegations and is suing 36 year old Coleen for libel.
Private Whatsapp messages sent from Rebekah Vardy to her agent were released as part of the Wagatha Christie trial.The WAG was accused of leaking information from Coleen Rooney’s private Instagram account to the press in October 2019, which she denies. Now Vardy, 40, is suing Coleen for libel at London’s High Court. As the trial comes to an end, we look back at nine key exchanges between Rebekah Vardy and her agent Caroline Watt.
Private Whatsapp messages sent from Rebekah Vardy to her agent were released as part of the Wagatha Christie trial. The WAG was accused of leaking information from Coleen Rooney’s private Instagram account to the press in October 2019, which she denies.
Read more: 9 things we learned from the Wagatha Christie trial this weekOn October 9, 2019, she posted on Twitter: "I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them. It’s… Rebekah Vardy. "The tweet went viral, and the term 'Wagatha Christie' was born.
Rebekah Vardy against Coleen Rooney commenced this week. Rooney is facing legal action after she accused Vardy, wife of Leicester City striker Jamie, of leaking “false stories” about her to the tabloid press. In a tweet published in October 2019, Rooney, wife of ex-footballer Wayne, implied that Vardy had been sharing posts from her private Instagram account with The Sun newspaper.
Katie Price has shared her anger that her friend Sarah Harding’s name was brought up as part of Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney’s libel case. The former glamour model, 43, had been close friends with the late Girls Aloud star, who died from breast cancer in September 2021 at the age of 39, with the singer even being a bridesmaid at her 2005 wedding to Peter Andre. Harding was brought up in court after it was claimed Vardy was caught taking photos of the contents of her handbag at the National Television Awards in 2018.
Rebekah Vardy, 40, left the courtroom crying after a tense exchange with Coleen Rooney's barrister during their libel trial. David Sherborne, for Rooney, 36, had been questioning Vardy about one of the fake posts Rooney posted on her private Instagram account as part of her Wagatha Christie sting. Mr Sherborne misspoke and said it was Vardy who had "gone to Mexico to look at gender selection" to which she responded: "It wasn't me who went to Mexico, it was Mrs Rooney." The lawyer said: "Is that your best point?" Vardy's lawyer Hugh Tomlinson QC then stood up and said: "Mr Sherborne keeps making remarks and if the witness is in the box for a long time it can be unpleasant." Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.
Rebekah Vardy messaged Coleen Rooney to express her sympathy and outrage that stories about her were being leaked to the press, a court heard on Thursday. Coleen, 36, accused Rebekah's Instagram account of being linked to leaks about her private life in October 2019.