Rooney is fighting the libel case, insisting her original allegation about Vardy leaking stories to The Sun newspaper was true.Recap: What did we learn on day 1 of the ‘Wagatha Christie’ trial?Proceedings are due to get underway at 10.30am, but here is aBoth sides presented opening written arguments, and Rebekah Vardy started giving evidence in her libel claim against Coleen Rooney, issuing a flat denial that she was the source of leaks.
David Sherborne, for Rooney, called it “horrible stuff, we can all agreed” as he made reference to the 2016 news article. 👇
Rebekah Vardy broke down in tears when reports of Twitter trolls threatening to rape her daughter were mentioned in the High Court 👇
Vardy told the court: “I didn’t know she was intentionally going to people’s Instagrams to check information or see what they have posted”, . “We were just gossiping.”
Mr Sherborne pointed out Vardy said on oath yesterday that she was unaware of her agent looking at other people’s private Instagram information through her log-in.
Rebekah Vardy has denied telling lies on oath in her High Court ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel trial as she insisted she was not aware if her agent was “stalking” Coleen Rooney. Follow LIVE👇
Rebekah Vardy denied have a “beef” with Ms Lloyd, or a “spat on Instagram”, but told the court she had called the model a “nasty b****” in a private message to Ms Watt – a remark Rooney believes was aimed at her. 👉
Rebekah Vardy said she sent her agent Caroline Watt a screenshot of a magazine article featuring Ms Lloyd, accompanied by the comment: “She’s gone and done it now. Leak the Maldives stuff.”
Rebekah Vardy denied instructing her agent to “leak the Maldives stuff” about model Danielle Lloyd, telling the High Court that was a typo. 👉Live updates
Vardy accepts the messages read like she was directing a leak, but she told the court: “That’s the way it reads, but in context it is bits of information in with other bits of information. I was absolutely just joking about that one.
Messages from September 2018 show Vardy telling her agent Caroline Watt to “leak the story” about the TV star “shagging [another man] behind [her partner’s] back”. 👉
🔴Rebekah Vardy told the High Court she was “absolutely just joking” when she told her agent to leak a story about an affair between a footballer and a famous married TV personality Follow our LIVE blog more updates 👇
When pressed by Rooney’s barrister David Sherborne that she had discussed leaking news from within the Leicester dressing room, Vardy said she did not know definitely that Mahrez’s teammates were “fuming”, she said: “I didn’t know that for a fact at all.”
Rebekah Vardy said it was a “bit of harmless gossip” when she contemplated passing a tip to a reporter about her husband’s teammate Riyad Mahrez going on strike Follow LIVE updates 👇
Rebekah Vardy says messages on Riyad Mahrez ‘harmless gossip'👇
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