Coleen and Wayne Rooney ‘fear Wagatha trial will “shred” their reputations’ as ‘stories she doesn’t know may come out’

Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy kicked off their Wagatha Christie libel trial at the High Court this week.The pair both got in the witness box to answer questions about the now-infamous sting operation by Rooney in 2019.Rooney, who is married to England star Wayne, accused the fellow WAG of leaking stories about her.The 36-year-old uploaded several fake stories to her private Instagram account in a bid to find out who was “betraying” her before revealing it on social media.Vardy, 40 denies the allegations and is suing Rooney, the wife of England star Wayne, for libel.Here are nine things you may have missed:In her witness statement, Rooney said she received an “over the top” message from Vardy inviting her to stay at her house in 2017.She said the offer came after Wayne was stopped by police for drink-driving with party-goer Laura Simpson in Cheshire.Rooney said: “I had a WhatsApp exchange with Becky in which she checked in on how I was doing and even offered for me to stay at her house if I wanted to get away from things.“On the face of things, this was obviously a nice gesture, but I did think at the time that it was a bit over the top because Becky and I weren’t particularly close friends.”One of the Instagram posts being discussed at the trial is about a picture of a damaged Honda Rooney posted after she had an accident in America.The court heard messages between Vardy and her agent Caroline Watt in which Watt tells Vardy The Sun are trying to confirm if she crashed it.Vardy messaged Watt: “Haha yeah she defo did.”Giving evidence Rooney told the court she had not crashed the car, as an article in The Sun stated, but a lorry had scraped the side of it.She told the court: “Wayne’s football team was sponsored by Audi

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Coleen Rooney took to the witness stand for the first time in Rebekah Vardy’s libel trial against her on Friday, telling the High Court that her infamous ‘Wagatha Christie’ post was “my last resort”. The mother-of-four also opened up about the troubles in her marriage to former England football star Wayne Rooney. Recalling their difficulties in 2017, she said: “I didn’t know how my marriage was going to work out, whether I was going on with my relationship.

READ MORE: Coleen Rooney ‘felt vulnerable’ after husband’s drink-drive arrest “I always got the impression that no topic was ever really off the table as far as Becky was concerned,” she wrote in her statement. In her own witness statement Mrs Vardy, who denies leaking information, accused Mrs Rooney of making “a very wide-ranging attack on me and a series of outrageous claims about my dealings with journalists”. She added that it was “false” that she was “some kind of favoured close collaborator with The Sun and spend my time leaking information to them in exchange for self promotion”.

Coleen Rooney has told the High Court about her marriage issues after her husband Wayne Rooney’s arrest for drink-driving. The TV star is currently locked in a legal battle with fellow Wag Rebekah Vardy, who is suing her for libel over accusations she leaked stories to the press in what has been dubbed the Wagatha Christie case. Mrs Rooney is now giving evidence in the trial, following Mrs Vardy’s tearful stint in the witness box in which she insisted she did not leak stories to the press (and said she did not know who Davy Jones was).

Rebekah Vardy "fell out with Girls Aloud's Sarah Harding in 2018 because she was apparently caught taking pictures of the contents of her handbag at the National Television Awards", a court heard.Coleen Rooney, 36, made the claim in a witness statement she supplied as part of the Wagatha Christie libel trial.Vardy was accused by Rooney of leaking fake stories about her in October 2019.The 40-year-old denies the allegations and is suing Rooney, the wife of England star Wayne, for libel.In a witness statement, Rooney said: "As an aside, I am aware that Becky had attended the 2018 National Television Awards and produced and provided various pieces of 'behind the scenes' footage for The Sun."She also got into a spat with former Girls Aloud group member Sarah Harding during the 2018 event because Sarah apparently caught Becky taking photographs of the contents of Sarah’s handbag when Sarah had dropped it on the floor.

Coleen Rooney began giving evidence and Rebekah Vardy finished hers on the fourth day of the pair's Wagatha Christie High Court battle on Friday (May 13).The 36-year-old accused Vardy of leaking stories about her in October 2019.Rooney uploaded several fake stories to her private Instagram account in a bid to find out who was “betraying” her before revealing it on Twitter in her now-infamous Wagatha Christie post.Vardy denies the allegations and is suing Rooney, the wife of England star Wayne, for libel.Here are nine things we learned from today's hearing:Rooney said in her witness statement that Vardy “certainly stuck out to me as being someone who actively wanted to be famous” and used a “common tactic” of staging paparazzi shots.She also said she had “never had an issue” with Vardy and the pair “got on fine”.But she said Vardy was “keen to be friendly with me and she was trying too hard and it was a bit too much”.She went on to say that, in hindsight, she believes messages Vardy sent to her were “fishing” for information and thought being close to her would “help her own interests”.Giving evidence, Rooney said she had never rowed with a WAG before.Rooney also said she does not claim Vardy leaked the information for money and added: “I have been around for long enough to know that there are various reasons why celebrities would want to maintain a positive relationship with tabloid journalists.

Coleen Rooney began giving evidence and Rebekah Vardy finished hers on the fourth day of the pair's Wagatha Christie High Court battle today.The 36 year old accused Vardy of leaking stories about her in October 2019.Rooney uploaded several fake stories to her private Instagram account in a bid to find out who was “betraying” her before revealing it on Twitter in her now-infamous Wagatha Christie post.Vardy, 40, denies the allegations and is suing Rooney, the wife of England star Wayne, for libel.Here are nine things we learned from today's hearing... Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.

Coleen Rooney began giving evidence and Rebekah Vardy finished hers on the fourth day of the pair's Wagatha Christie High Court battle today. The 36-year-old accused Vardy of leaking stories about her in October 2019.

Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney has the nation on tenterhooks - because of absurd moments like this.The Wagatha Christie trial has been in full swing for the past three days, with Rebekah and Coleen at loggerheads. Husbands Jamie and Wayne have been doing their best to keep out of the firing line, but Rebekah's lawyer, Hugh Tomlinson QC, managed to take a hilarious pot-shot at the Derby County manager while Coleen was on the stand.Challenging her insistence that she "believes" Rebekah was the leaker, Tomlinson told Coleen: "You might believe Derby County might win the Premiership in two years’ time.

Coleen Rooney has admitted that one of the three fake stories she claimed had leaked from her Instagram account was in fact a 'coincidence.'The mum-of-four took the stand in her libel case against Rebekah Vardy on Friday (May 13) as she began giving evidence in the trial.Coleen, 36, made a series of fake posts to the private account in order to try and trace who she suspected was leaking stories about her to the press.However, one of the stories that eventually appeared she now admits was 'a coincidence' after the journalist who wrote the article came forward to correct her on who she had suspected may have been to blame for it being printed. The article in question related to rumours of Coleen appearing on hit BBC show Strictly Come Dancing.

 Merseyside, attempting to recover from the trauma of the news, Laura started to speak to the press.She claimed in The Sun that she'd had contact with Coleen who'd "asked me to tell her what happened."She seemed unhappy with the fact that we had left a nightclub in a cab together to go to my car," she claimed.This week, Wayne's wife relived the incident as part of her libel trial.Coleen accused Rebekah's account of leaking stories about her to the press, and Rebekah has, in turn, sued her for libel.She claims she baited Rebekah's account by streaming Instagram Stories with false information in them that she made sure only Rebekah's account had access to, then stood by and watched as the supposedly intimate information became public.On the other hand, Rebekah insists that she never leaked private stories about Coleen to the media, and has argued that she only discussed her rival's Instagram account with her PR agent, Caroline Watt, "a handful of times".One of these occasions was when she pointed out to Caroline that one of the Rooney children had been photographed in a car without wearing a seatbelt.Caroline responded: "It's on her private Instagram so we can't do anything with it".Rebekah adamantly told the court that she "didn't know" what her agent might have meant by this comment, and has added that Coleen's stories could have been released by a hacker.However she did admit that she had intended to leak a story about footballer Danny Drinkwater's drink driving crash - but The Sun had already printed the story.She argues that Coleen's Instagram post publicly accusing her account of offering stories about her to the press had caused her "anxiety", "panic attacks" and fear that she was going to miscarry her baby.However

Coleen Rooney has once again favoured high-street over designer as she arrived at London's High Court wearing a £69. 99 blazer from Zara.  The wife of Wayne Rooney put on a casual display in a straight-fit blazer and matching trousers, paired with a simple t-shirt, ahead of the fourth day of the 'Wagatha Christie' case.

Rebekah Vardy. The actor, 62, took to Twitter to simply declare: ‘I’d like to play Rebekah Vardy in the TV Special. ’And he has our full support in that endeavour.

Giving evidence in the libel case dubbed 'Wagatha Christie', Rooney said: "With the pyjama post, at the time there had been a situation which was wrongdoing by my husband, but I was in a vulnerable situation. "I didn't know how my marriage was going to work out. I didn't know what was going on in that relationship so we agreed to work things out. "I had not settled on this.

REBEKAH Vardy broke down for a THIRD time today forcing a break in the Wagatha Christie trial - and then returned to the dock to sob AGAIN. The Wag, 39,  slammed "hurtful trolls" as she went head-to-head with Coleen Rooney, 35, after she accused her of leaking stories to the press.

“The mere fact that Becky would suggest seeking to use Rosie's name in conversation with me in order to put me off the scent of suspecting Becky as the person responsible for leaking my private information to The Sun is really low and sad."It actually knocked me sick when I read that message from Becky to Caroline,” Coleen wrote.In October 2019, Coleen and Rebekah made headlines after the former accused Jamie Vardy’s wife via a tweet of leaking stories she had posted on her private Instagram account to the press.In the lengthy statement, Coleen claimed: “It’s been tough keeping it to myself and not making any comment at all, especially when the stories have been leaked, however I had to.“Now I know for certain which account/individual it’s come from.“I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them. It’s.........

Coleen Rooney has opened up about her marriage woes as she took the stand in her court case against Rebekah Vardy.The mum-of-four stepped up to give her account of how she became suspicious of Vardy's motives for befriending her as day four of the hearing got underway.Coleen claimed that she had started to wonder if Vardy was genuine because "she was not in my circle of friends" and allegedly often contacted her whenever she had difficulties in her private life.She claimed: "It was always to try and get information out of me. It was often when there was something not nice going on in my personal life.

Coleen Rooney has spoken out about her marriage woes with England star Wayne during her libel trial with Rebekah Vardy.

Rebekah Vardy has told the High Court she apologised to Peter Andre for an interview in which she discussed the size of his manhood and compared it to a chipolata. The 40-year-old returned to the witness stand on the fourth day of her libel trial against Coleen Rooney over allegations she was leaking information to the press about her fellow footballer’s wife. On Tuesday, shortly after being asked if she respected the privacy of others, Ms Vardy was questioned about a 2004 interview that carried the headline: “Peter’s hung like a small chipolata, shaved, slobbery, lasts five minutes.

Coleen Rooney has told the Wagatha Christie trial how a message between Rebekah Vardy and her agent referencing her deceased sister knocked her "sick". The wife of Wayne Rooney is in court with the wife of Jamie Vardy this week over the so-called Wagatha Christie scandal, referring to leaked newspaper stories.