As the Wagatha Christie trial rages on at London’s High Court, the court heard comments from Rebekha Vardy which claimed that arguing with Coleen Rooney ‘would be like arguing with a pigeon’
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Rebekah Vardy leaves court after third day in the witness box
As the Wagatha Christie trial between Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney continues, London’s High Court heard Vardy compare Rooney to a ‘pigeon’ in text messages with her former agent, Caroline Watt, on the third day of the libel trial.
The warring WAGs faced each other for the first time this week after Vardy, 40, sought legal action after Rooney, 36, accused her of leaking private stories about her to the press in October 2019.
Rooney, who is married to former England striker Wayne Rooney, went public with her allegations in a bombshell tweet where she claimed to have carried out a months-long ‘sting-operation’ using her personal Instagram.
On the third day in court, Leicester star Jamie Vardy’s wife, 40, took to the witness box to be quizzed by Rooney’s barrister David Sherborne QC, while Coleen and Wayne sat in the front row.
Vardy was quizzed by Mr Sherborne about text messages between her and her former agent Watt regarding to Rooney’s fake Instagram stories – and her reaction after Rooney ‘outed’ her on social media.
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The WAG broke down in tears for a second time in the witness box, as she was questioned about one of the alleged leaks at the heart of the libel trial.
In the comments, which were read out on day three of the trial, Vardy claimed that arguing with Rooney ‘would be like arguing with a pigeon. You can tell it it’s right and you’re wrong but it’s still going to sh** in your hair’.
Rooney posted a fake story on Instagram about a flood in the basement of her £20 million family home which was under construction.
The post went online in October 2019, and a story about a flood then appeared in The Sun soon after.
Rooney’s fake post included a picture of a bottle of wine with the comment: “Needed today. Flood in basement of our new home when it all seemed to be going so well.”
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During the trial, Sherborne asked Vardy if she had seen the Instagram post, to which she replied: “No, I don’t recall that.”
Sherborne then reminded Vardy that an article appeared in the same newspaper about Coleen’s flooded basement not long after she posted the fake story and that her Instagram account was the only one to have seen the fabricated post.
Vardy insisted that she couldn’t ‘confirm’ whether or not she had seen the post.
“I was away in Dubai with my children at the time,” she told the court.
“I can’t confirm that,” she added.
Sherborne said two years ago Vardy gave an affidavit in which she said she had seen the fake post.
Vardy then started sobbing and said: “There was a lot of abuse during that time.”
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She then left the witness box returning six minutes later.
“I don’t recall seeing this one”, she said. “I recall seeing something similar with blueprints of the house and thought it was quite strange.
“I didn’t understand why someone would put blueprints up of the house they were building, for security reasons.”
After returning to the court room, Vardy was once again quizzed by Sherborne who suggested that the WAG was trying to distance’ herself from the flooded basement post.
He then suggested she and Watt were the source of the article, to which Vardy insisted was ‘not correct’.
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Sherborne said Rooney then posted her reveal at the heart of the case.
Vardy had messaged her agent Watt saying, ‘Wow, that’s war’, after Rooney alleged that her fellow WAG had been the one leaking the fake stories to the press.
Sherborne then said the day after Rooney ‘outed’ her on social media, Vardy gave a newspaper interviewer denying she was the one to leak the stories leaker and suggested that ‘any one of a dozen people’ could have had access to Rooney’s private account.
In the interview, Vardy said arguing with Rooney would be as pointless as arguing ‘with a pigeon because you can tell it it’s right and you’re wrong but it’s still going to sh** in your hair’.
Rooney’s lawyer also accused Vardy of lying and displaying ‘selective amnesia’ over her version of events – something which she denies.
The trial continues.
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