Rebekah Vardy’s agent is said to have begged her client not to take on Colleen Rooney in court, leading to the now-infamous “Wagatha Christie” trial.
Rebekah is accusing Coleen of defamation after she claimed that Rebekah had been leaking stories about her to the press. Colleen, 36, the wife of football ace Wayne Rooney, laid a trap by posting fake stories on her private Instagram account to try and catch whoever was selling gossip about her and her family to the press.
Colleen alleged it must have been Rebekah, 40, who was leaking the information because she changed her settings so only Rebekah could see her content and therefore caught her “red-handed”.
Rebekah, who is married to Leicester striker Jamie Vardy, denies she was behind the leaks and is now suing Coleen for libel - resulting in a week of intimate evidence at the High Court.
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