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The "Wagatha Christie" Coleen Rooney/ Rebekah Vardy court case

406 replies

Iwantacatnotcovid · 08/02/2022 20:46

Is anyone else following it? Grin

Vardy's phone was accidentally dropped into the North Sea... Yeah right!

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BoujiBouji · 08/02/2022 22:36

Becky Vardy’s IG stories post today.

The "Wagatha Christie" Coleen Rooney/ Rebekah Vardy court case
Bringonsummer19 · 08/02/2022 22:41

Ha to the lost at sea and the lost whilst downloading!!!

She never should have pursued this.
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LizzieMacQueen · 08/02/2022 22:44

Do you think they'll cover this on the ITV news?

AntAndDecking · 08/02/2022 22:48

Do you think they'll cover this on the ITV news?

I hope Ros Atkins will do one of his 5 minute explainer videos on the BBC.

AntAndDecking · 08/02/2022 22:50

To be fair to Coleen, she didn’t decide to take this to court. I don’t see how she’s as bad as RV, she just called someone out for selling stories on her.

nancy75 · 08/02/2022 22:55

RV is coming out if this looking like a nasty piece of work. Those recovered messages seem to make it pretty clear it was her & her agents selling stories to the press.

ENoeuf · 08/02/2022 22:59

It’s bloody funny in a 😲😲😲 way. Two women with way too much money and not enough real friendship trying to be right. Hilarious and I don’t care who wins.

TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo · 08/02/2022 22:59

Both behaving like 10 year old schoolgirls.

RV definitely isn't going to come out of this unscathed.

CR shouldn't be putting stuff on her insta if she wanted it to stay private. The first and most important rule of social media.

nancy75 · 08/02/2022 23:08

CR shouldn't be putting stuff on her insta if she wanted it to stay private. The first and most important rule of social media
But isn’t that her point? The stuff was in her private account which is just supposed to be for her trusted friends?

whynotwhatknot · 08/02/2022 23:11

vardy started this shit-shes a nasty bittch i dont blame colleen for wanting the truth

whynotwhatknot · 08/02/2022 23:12

and how did she think she was going to look when the texts came out

thick cow

prh47bridge · 09/02/2022 00:46

@SisterAgatha

I don’t understand how they got the messages off Vardys phone. Why would she willingly submit that Confused
This is normal in a civil case. Rooney's lawyers will have requested disclosure of things they thought were relevant and might help them. In general, Vardy is required to provide the requested information, especially if it undermines her case. If Vardy hadn't provided the requested information, Rooney could have gone to court for an order forcing disclosure. Vardy could have tried to resist this, but these messages are clearly relevant so I would have expected the courts to order her to hand them over. Some reports suggest that an order was in place for some of the items. Certainly, Rooney's lawyers had requested this evidence.

Then there were a series of "unfortunate accidents". Ms Watts dropped her phone in the sea. All media files from Vardy's conversation with Watts disappeared, apparently while she was exporting the messages to her solicitors. Jamie Vardy claimed his WhatsApp had been hacked and all conversations had been deleted and could not be restored. He refused to allow Rooney's lawyers to examine his phone - I don't know if they are trying to get a court order to force the issue. The laptop used by Rebekah Vardy at the time no longer functions and messages between Vardy and Sun journalist Andy Halls appear to have been deleted.

Whilst it is not entirely impossible that this really is a series of unfortunate events, it is so unlikely that I suspect the judge will take the view that this was a concerted attempt to undermine disclosure and draw the obvious conclusion - that the missing messages, etc. are even more damning than the messages that have survived.

It seems Vardy is determined to carry on. Her barrister insists that the messages do not show that she leaked and accuses Rooney of relying on selective and incomplete WhatsApp exchanges.

Rooney cannot walk away from this. If she does, the courts will find for Vardy and Rooney will have to pay damages. Vardy can end this any time she wants.

Louisianagumbo · 09/02/2022 01:09

@nancy75

CR shouldn't be putting stuff on her insta if she wanted it to stay private. The first and most important rule of social media But isn’t that her point? The stuff was in her private account which is just supposed to be for her trusted friends?
396 trusted friends? 🤔
CatNameChange101 · 09/02/2022 01:19

Why are people equating them? Colleen did her ‘Wagatha’ moment. Rebecca could have countered on SM. But no. She went for libel. Colleen couldn’t just go ‘Sorry, no suing today!’

If it looks like it’s going to go Jamie has wasted money which results in his wife being outed as a liar and troll. And dependent how it goes paying Colleen’s legal bills.

TigerLilyTail · 09/02/2022 01:36

Yes!! I have a huge bucket of popcorn for all this!!

Do people really talk like this?

Ms Vardy replied: 'That would be like arguing with a pigeon. You can tell it that you are right and it is wrong, but it's still going to s* in your hair.'

All the cunts and stuff. I just don't know anyone that talks like this. So tacky!

Tufty383 · 09/02/2022 06:36

Mogwig

How many women have been bitched about by so called friends? Omg if only we could all waste so much time and money on a very public fight.Really makes both of them look awful. Hard to get much more spoilt than this

It's not the same as it happening to us though is it. If our friends bitch about us it doesn't end up in the national press and they can't make money out of it.

SisterAgatha · 09/02/2022 07:19

prh47bridge

Wow. So given all of that, I wonder if RV is unwell. What person could think they would get away with it all with all that evidence against them? Perhaps she thinks she’ll get more work out of it at the end, that’s the only thing I can think of. More tv slots and articles with denials etc and “I was wronged in court”.

I’m firmly Team Colleen.

jay55 · 09/02/2022 07:31

Vardy is clearly a fool bringing the action. And I don't think much of her team both management and legal letting her do it.

The original denials, it wasnt her, that her team had her logins and could have done it, would have been enough for it to die down.

I mean we've all had a lot more to think about since it happened.

UserBot9to5 · 09/02/2022 07:36

Yeh it's a bit narcissistic going to these lengths trying to control what the public think. She should have said "im sorry colleen, i was a bit indiscreet.

TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo · 09/02/2022 09:34

Exactly @Louisianagumbo hardly meant for her close circle and family is it!

nancy75 · 09/02/2022 10:30

CR's public account has 903K followers, compared to that 396 is a close knit circle!

TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo · 09/02/2022 10:46

@nancy75

CR's public account has 903K followers, compared to that 396 is a close knit circle!
Yea not many in comparison but it's a bit of a skewed comparison.

Do you have 396 people that you would like to share details of your life with that you wouldn't be happy is in the public domain?

AndAnotherNewOne · 09/02/2022 10:58

They are both vacuous and pointless. No talent or abilities apart from marrying footballers.

That money could be so much better spent.

They are trying to protect their names and reputations but most people I know have no respect for them in the first place.

Keepitonthedownlow · 09/02/2022 11:02

@AntAndDecking

To be fair to Coleen, she didn’t decide to take this to court. I don’t see how she’s as bad as RV, she just called someone out for selling stories on her.
This
Tufty383 · 09/02/2022 11:08

If Colleen had 396 private Instagram followers and she managed to narrow the culprit down to RV then I'd say there was probably more to it. She must have known she was likely to do it based on reputation.