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Rebekah Vardy agrees to pay almost £1.2m of Coleen Rooney’s Wagatha legal costs


Rebekah Vardy has agreed to pay almost £1.2 million of Coleen Rooney’s legal costs following their high-profile Wagatha Christie libel battle

In the viral social media post in October 2019 at the heart of the libel claim, Coleen accused Rebekah of leaking information about her private life to the press (Image: PA)She continued that the bill could have been settled sooner if Mrs Rooney had “engaged more constructively”. “She took every conceivable point in this assessment, put Mrs Rooney to very significant work on each and every aspect of the proceedings, raised highly technical and potentially damaging issues and failed to make any reasonable offers for the bill until the 11th hour. Coleen publicly claimed Rebekah’s account was the source behind three stories in The Sun newspaper featuring fake details she had posted on her private Instagram profile – her travelling to Mexico for a “gender selection” procedure, her planning to return to TV and the basement flooding at her home.

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