Rebekah Vardy’s £900,000 budget for libel case grotesque, says Coleen Rooney
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletterRebekah Vardy’s £900,000 budget for her libel battle with Coleen Rooney is “grotesque”, the High Court has heard.Mrs Rooney, 34, accused Mrs Vardy, 39, of leaking “false stories” about her private life in October 2019, after carrying out a months-long “sting operation”, which saw her dubbed “Wagatha Christie”.The wife of former England star Wayne Rooney claimed fellow footballer’s wife Mrs Vardy shared fake stories she had posted on her personal Instagram account with The Sun newspaper.Mrs Rooney 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.
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