To not feel very sorry for Rebekah Vardy

She's absolutely a narcissist. No legal firm turns down good money. She was going to spend it somewhere - might as well have been them.

She's absolutely mad for sueing someone for saying she did something that she knew she was guilty of. I honestly think she's unhinged.
I don't have much sympathy for footballers in general but her husband must be holding his head in his hands in dispair.
Surely her defense lawyers are partly to blame as nobody should have allowed her to make such a bullshit litigation. But they happily took the money.

I have no sympathy for Vardy. She was advised to reach an out of court settlement but ignored the good advice. Her true self was shown in court for all to see.
She's just enjoys shit stirring (not for the first time) and she's been caught out and has to pay the price.

I would imagine the defamation team at Kinglsey Napley know very well the value of stupid, self-sabotaging people who at least for now have more money than sense!

Agree his teammates must be agog.

And don't take me to task for being overly harsh. I sat on the same table as the Vardys at a charidee dinner not that long ago and believe me, I could have been a lot harsher.

Don’t forget Jamie’s child maintenance to his oldest child.

Also how did Lauryn or the papers get the texts from 5? Years ago from
Vardy who’s phone went ploop… can’t recover texts for the Colleen case but can get texts to get her spoon out for Lauryn v Annie.

She's nothing but a gobby, uneducated chav. Her inner circle of similarly gobby, uneducated chavs deluded her into thinking she had anything useful or interesting or intelligent to say. She clearly hadn't.

She looks and sounds like she should be working in a chip shop.

Unless her lawyers value her as a repeat client. They’re presumably doing very well by repeatedly representing her….

I wonder what all JV’s teammates and their partners think of it all. It can’t be conducive to good team morale if his team mates daren’t make any comment on their family/home life in front of him for fear it will end up in the Sun.

Yep. Look at Wes Brown. Wife spent money like it was going out of fashion. They are now divorced and he has declared bankruptcy.

Oh I'm sure. Jamie is the main earner in that family and he's had quite a small number of peak earning years. His playing career isn't likely to go on for more than a couple of years, tops, and after that there are really no guarantees. So basically 10-12 years on top wages, in the best case scenario.

It's the sort of money that will leave you set for life if you're sensible, even with the 6 kids between them. But open ended, completely avoidable multi million pound legal bills are going to be a worry even on that income.

My choice of wording was poor. My point still stands though - they would have to have paid into court before the original trial started (so knew exactly what order they were in for) and had they settled the 90% of CR's legal bill their own legal bill would've paused and they would be done and dusted at the directed amount. However, in trying to save a few bob, they have accrued yet more fees from their own legal team poring over literally every line claimed for and of course will likely now have to pay for CR's team costs incurred in defending baseless claims. And now CR's firm may well decide to take action against RV and her team for defamation (and would be well placed to do so). All in all, nothing saved. As I said, like a gambler chasing a bad debt.

£295 per night doesn't sound unreasonable for central London. Recently my student son was asked to travel to London last minute for some temporary work. The hotel was just over £200 per night including breakfast. It was nice but not posh, just happened to be within easy travelling distance of where he needed to be.

A £5 million salary sounds great, but after tax it would only be half that, and £1.6 million in costs would leave them with less than £1 million to live on for the year. Poor lambs!!!

CR offered several out of court settlements which RV rejected so that will go against RV

But this time with even more of a legal bill after bringing yet another action. It’s like watching a gambler in a casino chase their losses. RV/JV will have had to pay into court before starting legal action.

This isn't a new action, it's the last stages of the original action with costs being assessed. They won't have had to pay into court any more than court fees before starting the original action.

RV has just under 400k followers on instagram, I don't know about other socials. Google reckons people can charge about $10 per 1000 followers for a sponsored post. If that's vaguely true, and I have no idea, she'd be netting about £3500 a sponsored post. So a nice chunk of change, and I can see why she might do it given that Jamie's in his late 30s and doesn't really come off as the sort who's going to keep making loads of money afterwards in a successful management or punditry career. But their lifestyle must cost a lot more than that.

My guess, having never seen their bank accounts or anything like that, is they can afford it now. But Jamie's not earned the sort of Rooney level money that allows you not to worry about this kind of thing. And Colleen herself has been pretty successful. More random googling suggests she's made above £10 million from her WAG related activities. She might even be worth more than Jamie by herself!

Absolutely this.

A fool and his money is soon parted...

I don't see how...she hasn't posted anything on insta since July? I'm no influencer but I think you do have to post content to do this. She's toxic to any TV channel and as pp have said, why on earth would any brand want to work with a proven liar? I mean, whenever I see a member of Towie promoting anything I usually think 'yeah, right of course it does x,y,z'... I'd think even less of any product/service if RV was posting about it!

Yes, she could. Her solicitors would have warned her that this was precisely what she was risking. Defamation cases are notoriously really expensive for the loser.

Of course their costs can be challenged. That is precisely the process that they are going through at the moment. I'm quite sure the expensive hotel charge, if it is real, is going to get struck out.

But imagine if there's now more money in confirming ones fool-status than leaving uncertainty.

Jamie will be bankrupt within five years. I would bet on it.

he hasn’t played long enough at a top level to have an infinite wealth, not like Wayne Rooney. He’s got a year or two tops left on his career. He might move into coaching but I doubt he would be anywhere close to making mega sums that will keep Rebekah in the lifestyle she thinks she’s entitled to.

if he was sensible, he would have invested carefully, but with the amount of legal fees that RV is racking up, that cash will soon be gone. It sounds as it CR legal team could consider a defamation claim against her now for what she said about the law firm. That’s twice now in the space of a year that she’s been told off by the courts for lying. Her influencer career would be over because what brand would want her representing them?

As Prince Philip once said paraphrasing a well-known phrase "It is better to be thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and confirm it"

partly cross posted with @viques