Wagatha Christie: Judge Steyn rules against Rebekah Vardy in libel case

Judge Steyn has ruled against Rebekah Vardy in the libel case that has become known as Wagatha Christie.

In a bizarre set of circumstances, Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy, wives of professional footballers found themselves in a libel case in the High Court in London.

The spat arose over articles that appeared in the Sun newspaper that claimed Rooney had travelled to Mexico to look into baby “gender selection” treatment and her plans to revive her TV career and the flooding of her basement.

That led to Rooney accusing Vardy on social media of selling stories from her private Instagram account to the tabloids. She claimed that she spent five months attempting to work out who was sharing information about her and her family based on posts she had made on her personal social media page.

She then took to sharing “false stories” in the hope that she could flush out the culprit, which she says led her to one Instagram account – that of Rebekah Vardy.

Vardy denied the allegations saying that many people had access to her Instagram account and any one of them could have shared the information.

The dispute found its way into the public domain making headlines worldwide. As a result of the very public accusations, Vardy initiated legal proceedings against Rooney in June 2020.

Her lawyers allege: “She suffered extreme distress, hurt, anxiety and embarrassment as a result of the publication of the post and the events which followed.”

As Judge Steyn rules in favour of Colleen Rooney, the recriminations and rumours will once again begin with the ruling unlikely to be the end of the story.

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