Jamie Vardy today made his first appearance at the ‘Wagatha Christie’ trial as he joined his wife Rebekah Vardy to hear former England teammate Wayne Rooney give evidence in the £3million libel case against Coleen Rooney.
Rooney, 36 years old, will speak today at the Royal Courts of Justice, London. He spoke one day after Coleen testified and described messages Rebekah sent to her agent regarding her as “just evil”.
Coleen also, 36, accused Rebekah (40) of leaked ‘false accounts’ about her private lifestyle in October 2019, after she claimed she conducted a lengthy’sting operation. Now, the bombshell case is in its final days.
Rebekah denies the allegations and has sued Coleen over the ‘untrue and unjustified defamatory attack’, with the last of the defence witnesses – including Rooney and his cousin Claire Rooney – set to give evidence today.
Many witnesses noted Vardy’s departure from the trial in the initial five days. This has led to Rebekah, a tearful, being put under cross-examination. Coleen’s husband Rooney was present at the court, and he was able to sit in front with his wife, as she gave her evidence.
Just before the proceedings started this morning Vardy and his wife took their seats on the left side of court. The Rooneys followed a short time later with no acknowledgement from either man. Coleen, who was wearing a black gown, is still wearing her brace over her foot from a fracture she sustained in an earlier fall at home.
Coleen completed her testimony yesterday after she first entered Court 13’s witness box on Friday. Yesterday she answered questions regarding Rooney’s misbehavior and his arrest for drinking.
Rebekah Vardy and Jamie Vardy arrive at the Royal Courts of Justice, London, this morning
Coleen Rooney and Wayne Rooney arrive at the Royal Courts of Justice, London this morning for the libel case.
Rebekah Vardy is accompanied by her husband Jamie Vardy to the London Court this morning for the continuing trial.
Rebekah Vardy, Jamie Vardy meet hand-in-hand at London’s Royal Courts of Justice for today’s trial.
Wayne Rooney arrived at the Royal Courts of Justice, London today with his wife Coleen
Coleen Rooney walks in to the Royal Courts of Justice, London today wearing a shoe brace from a previous fall.
Rebekah Vardy is accompanied by her husband Jamie Vardy to the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
Rebekah Vardy with her husband Jamie Vardy at today’s Royal Courts of Justice, London.
Wayne Rooney is seen arriving at the Royal Courts of Justice London in the morning, as part of the ongoing ‘Wagatha Christi’ trial.
Coleen Rooney observes photographers while she approaches the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
Jamie Vardy, Leicester City’s footballer arrives at Royal Courts of Justice London as part of the ongoing trial
Wayne Rooney makes a smile for the cameras as he arrives at Royal Courts of Justice, London.
Rebekah Vardy and Jamie Vardy arrive at the Royal Courts of Justice, London today for their trial.
Hugh Tomlinson, QC for Rebekah, mentioned an article that told about Rooney’s arrest and drink driving conviction, after he was found with another woman.
According to the barrister, it was “another apparent crisis” in their relationship. Rooney also had been misbehaving.
Coleen responded: “Yes, there have been many, it’s unfortunate those things have happened to me and they get publicised. It has happened quite often and I have dealt it – as a couple as as a whole family.
Rebekah and Coleen sent a supportive message around the same time to Mr Tomlinson, stating that there was “nothing suspicious” about it.
Coleen stated that she had already suspected the existence of Mrs Vardy, so it was easy to see how things were adding up. When it was difficult, I felt like Mrs Vardy would text me.
“Obviously, with the suspicions I had, it felt like I was fishing for information.”
Coleen also was asked questions about Rebekah’s reaction to her post titled’reveal.’
M. Tomlinson wrote: “She makes it very clear that it wasn’t her, doesn’t she?”
Coleen said that she claimed to have zero interest in my personal life. This I think is completely false. Coleen added that she talks a lot of about her… which was also a lie.
Coleen spoke about WhatsApp messages between Rebekah Watt and Caroline Watt that the court heard – Coleen also participated in this discussion.
Rebekah commented that Ms Watt had not spoken to her before, and she said she’d never meet or speak with her.
Coleen said, “There is no reason for it. I have never done anything to them.”
Later, she stated that many people had reached out to her after her post. Mr Tomlinson claimed people were calling her “Wagatha Christie” online.
The woman replied, “Yeah. Which I think is absurd.” It was quite serious and many people were sending me photos, screenshots.
“I felt it was hard, and people that I trusted were being against me.
Coleen Rooney arrived at the Royal Courts of Justice, London this morning to continue the “Wagatha Christie” trial.
Wayne Rooney walks into the Royal Courts Of Justice in London today as the £3million libel trial continues
Coleen Rooney smiling when she arrived at the Royal Courts of Justice London this morning, for the continuing trial
Rebekah Vardy is pictured with Jamie Vardy, her husband at the Royal Courts of Justice London.
Coleen Rooney and Wayne Rooney get out of their car at the Royal Courts of Justice, London.
Wayne Rooney arrives at Royal Courts of Justice, London. He walks in to the building this morning.
Rebekah Vardy is pictured with Jamie Vardy, her husband at the Royal Courts of Justice London.
Coleen Rooney is accompanied by Wayne Rooney, at the Royal Courts of Justice London.
Coleen Rooney, a woman who fell in London’s Royal Courts of Justice this morning, walks in to the Royal Courts of Justice with one foot in brace.
Rebekah Vardy is pictured with Jamie Vardy, her husband at the Royal Courts of Justice London.
Wayne Rooney, a photographer who captured the moment at the Royal Courts of Justice London in the morning, arrives.
Coleen Rooney is at the Royal Courts of Justice (London) this morning
Coleen Rooney enters the Royal Courts of Justice, London today as the Libel Trial continues
Wayne Rooney arrives today at the Royal Courts of Justice London for the following day of the trial
Wayne Rooney speaks to Jamie Vardy, England, during an England match at Wembley Stadium (London) on June 2, 2016.
She continued, “I’ve never spoken about this before this case. So I haven’t dwelt upon it. I will be completely honest, I have hated each and every moment of it.
Rebekah Vardy says that evidence from match photo of Rebekah Vardy is simply untrue
Rebekah Varidy’s evidence regarding why she sat beside Coleen Rooney in a football game is’simply not true’ according to a former Football Association employee.
Harpreet Robertson was an ex-ticketing manager and family liaison officers for the FA. She was interrogated about how the seats were set up at one match between England and Germany at Euro 2016.
Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney are seen together at the England-vs.-Wales football match at Euro 2016 (France).
Ms Robertson said to the court she believed Rebekah made the ‘choice’ to seat behind Coleen in the match. In her testimony, Rebekah claimed that this evidence was’simply false’.
Rebekah’s own witness testimony stated that Coleen, her family, and others were sitting at our tables when she and Rebekah went to see the game. Instead of making a big deal, we chose to sit in the nearest available seat.
Rebekah claimed that she did not intend to switch seats so as to be near Coleen in the photographs.
According to Mrs Robertson’s witness statement, Becky said that although she never refused the seat she was allocated, she did so with her guests. But it seems that Coleen would prefer to be in the right spot for anyone photographing or looking at her. Her behavior during the match suggested that she was not focused on the football match. Becky, I recall being constantly distracted by her mobile phone. She took selfies all the time and showed very little interest at the match.
Ms Robertson stated that Coleen was photographed sitting behind Ms Robertson in tabloid paper photographs the next morning. It was exactly the type of media attention the FA and I had tried to avoid.
Robertson testified that Ms Robertson would also reserve matches seats for herself and FA security staff members. However, she found that many others had already taken those seats.
She continued: ‘I asked them to move but they refused and were incredibly rude and abusive to me, remarking words to the effect of ‘we can sit where we like, f*** off’. The altercation that followed almost brought me to my knees. Soon, I realized that the people in question were Becky’s friends. Becky could clearly see what was happening between Becky’s guests and me.
Ms Robertson claimed that she later met with the FA security staff and sat somewhere else, which “compromised security for all players’ family members and friends to some degree”.
Yesterday’s hearing featured testimony from Rachel Monk (Coleen’s ex-PR representative), about Coleen’s interactions with The Sun about stories about Coleen’s wife.
According to Ms Monk’s witness testimony, she told Sun journalists that her client had been to Mexico for a gender-selection clinic.
Harpreet, who was a family liaison officer with the Football Association in the past, said that Rebekah’s guests, Jamie Vardy, and Rebekah were ‘rudess’ and abused her during a Euros 2016 match. This is the worst moment she has ever experienced at a football game.
Rebekah claimed that Rebekah’s testimony about Coleen sitting behind her at the England versus Wales match, was “simply false” in her witness statement.
In a brief appearance in the witness box, Coleen’s brother Joe McLoughlin told the court he was ‘shocked’ when he read his sister’s October 2019 social media post revealing her so-called ‘sting operation’ after helping her to create a ‘graphic’ of its text shortly before it was sent.
In a quick appearance, he stated that it was “a shock to my system.”
McLoughlin said that he managed his sister’s social media accounts while he was working at Triple S Group, a sports management firm supporting Wayne Rooney.
When asked if he ever discussed his sister’s concerns about who might be leaking their information, he answered: “No, never.”
Yesterday Coleen was also asked about Rebekah’s abuse on social media following the reveal. Coleen stated that she knew what was going on and found it to be disgusting. That would be something I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
“I was being trolled too, but Mrs Vardy was clearly disgusting with the comments they made… The world that we live in now and the trolling are terrible.
The court was informed by Rebekah’s legal counsel that she didn’t say any more about her investigation to Rebekah, or publically.
It was very frightening to her. The solicitors suggested that I take their advice, but I held on to the idea and continued my delay.
Coleen stated yesterday that she would like a story about the so-called gender selection process to be published to ‘evidence her sting operation in order to uncover the source of leaks.
Coleen posted one of the Instagram stories in the “sting” on April 8, 2019, stating that she was traveling to Mexico to investigate a method to decide a baby’s sex.
Coleen replied, “Let’s go see what this genre selection is about,” accompanied by a few heart emoticons and what seemed to be a smiling face emoticon.
The Sun published an online story on August 15, 2019, with the headline “Col’s baby boy bid” and was exclusive. It covered Coleen’s supposed desperate bid for a girl.
Coleen replied to Mr Tomlinson about his post: “I wanted the story so I had evidence.”
Coleen told the High Court that she had suspicions Rebekah’s Instagram account leaked information to journalists after she removed her from the site.
The pair weren’t good friends, she stated. If someone unfollowed her, she would “probably just forget it” and not message the person.
She stated that she felt the incident was suspicious. Evidently, there were other suspicions, and this only added to my suspicions.
Court artist’s drawing of Coleen Rooney, yesterday at the High Court witness stand. Mrs Justice Steyn is listening.
Coleen Rooney was yesterday’s witness at the Royal Courts of Justice, London.
Rebekah Vardy watched as David Sherborne, a barrister, spoke to Coleen Rooney yesterday.
After a social media posting in October 2019 that was widely shared, Coleen Rooney claimed she’d conducted a “sting operation” and charged Rebekah Vardy (40) with leaking false stories about her private life.
Jamie Vardy of Leicester City during Sunday’s Premier League match at Vicarage Road against Watford
Coleen defends Rebekah’s libel suit on the grounds of truth, public interest and fairness.
The lawsuit was initiated after Coleen made public claims that Rebekah, the person behind three fake stories about The Sun she shared on her Instagram account, is Coleen.
Coleen posted fake stories on Instagram during the sting operation. They featured Coleen traveling to Mexico to perform a “gender selection” procedure. She also planned to return to television and her basement flooding.
In the Instagram post, Twitter and Facebook she said: ‘I saved and captured all of the original stories that clearly showed only one person viewed them. It is ………. Rebekah Varidy’s account.