Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney have arrived at the Royal Courts of Justice where they are preparing to give evidence amid their ongoing legal battle.
Their case will be heard today after Coleen sensationally accused Rebekah’s Instagram account of leaking stories to the media.
As they prepare to give evidence, Coleen’s footballing boss husband Wayne Rooney sat alongside the businesswoman on the front row of Court 13, with Vardy at the opposite end of the bench.
Vardy, 40, has since launched a libel case against Coleen Rooney and claimed her former agent, Caroline Watt, may have been the one responsible for leaking stories from her private Instagram account.
It’s believed that their ongoing legal battle could see their legal fees reach an eye-watering £3million.
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Despite the case currently being evenly balanced, sources told The Mirror that Vardy may hold a slight advantage over her fellow WAG.
Last month, documents submitted to the court claimed Rebekah claim that she felt “betrayed” over the fact her former agent could have been responsible.
The claim was made by Mrs Rooney’s barrister David Sherbourne at a pre-trial hearing.
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“Now Mrs Vardy’s case changed where she believes it may well be Miss Watts who was the person who leaked this,” Mr Sherbourne told the High Court.
He said this was a “radical change”, as Mrs Vardy had previously said: “Caroline Watt is not the source.”
“She says ‘it’s awful to be betrayed’,” Mr Sherbourne said, describing admissions in her second witness statement.
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Rebekah continued to stress that Ms Watt denied being the source behind any of the leaked stories to The Sun newspaper.
In written submissions, Mr Sherborne said that Mrs Vardy’s new statement “suggests Ms Watt was the source of the leak but claims that (Mrs Vardy) ‘did not authorise or condone her'”.
“It now appears, that she too ‘believes’ that Ms Watt is the source,” Mr Sherborne added.
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The barrister continued: “The collapse of Mrs Vardy’s case over the last day has been remarkable.
“As of the evening of April 27 2022, in an abrupt change of position to her pleaded case since the outset, Mrs Vardy appears now to accept Mrs Rooney’s case: that Caroline Watt, Mrs Vardy’s close friend and PR, was the conduit by which stories from the defendant’s private Instagram account were leaked to The Sun through her access via Rebekah Vardy’s account.”
Mr Sherborne told the court: “It has become undeniably obvious that Ms Watt is the source and Mrs Vardy, true to form says ‘it wasn’t me, I didn’t realise and I didn’t know anything about what was going on’.”
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