Rebekah Vardy ‘appears to accept’ agent leaked Coleen Rooney stories, court told in Wagatha Christie case

metro.co.uk:

amid the explosive Wagatha Christie case.The wife of former England star Wayne Rooney accused fellow WAG Vardy of leaking ‘false stories’ about her private life to the media in October 2019 after carrying out a months-long ‘sting operation’, before being dubbed ‘Wagatha Christie’.She said she planted three stories about her travelling to Mexico to ‘see what this gender selection is all about’, returning to TV and the basement flooding in her new house.Rooney publicly claimed her fellow footballer’s wife shared the fake stories she had posted on her personal Instagram account with The Sun newspaper.

Vardy, who is married to Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, denies the accusations and is suing Rooney for libel.Rooney’s lawyers previously claimed that Vardy had leaked information to The Sun either directly or through her friend and agent Caroline Watt ‘acting on her instruction or with her knowing approval’.On Friday, David Sherborne, for Rooney, claimed that Vardy believes Watt may have been the source of the stories in a new witness statement provided on Wednesday.In written submissions, Mr Sherborne said that Vardy’s new statement ‘suggests Ms Watt was the source of the leak but claims that (Mrs Vardy) “did not authorise or condone her”‘.He added: ‘It now appears…that she too “believes” that Ms Watt is the source.’The barrister continued: ‘The collapse of Mrs Vardy’s case over the last day has been remarkable.‘As of the evening of April 27 2022, in an abrupt change of position to her pleaded case since the outset, Mrs Vardy appears now to accept Mrs Rooney’s case: that Caroline Watt, Mrs Vardy’s close friend and PR, was the conduit by which stories from the defendant’s private Instagram account were leaked to The Sun.