Wagatha Christie

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Vardy v Rooney
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Started10 May 2022
Decided29 July 2022
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Judge(s) sitting Mrs Justice Steyn

Wagatha Christie is a popular name given to a dispute between Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney, which culminated in a 2022 libel case in the English High Court, Vardy v Rooney.

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In 2019, Rooney announced that the Twitter account that was leaking the posts from her private Instagram account to the British newspaper The Sun was "Rebekah Vardy's account". In 2020, Vardy sued Rooney for libel, and the case came to trial in London in May 2022. On 29 July 2022, the court dismissed Vardy's claim on the basis that Rooney's statements were substantially true. Vardy was ordered to pay a substantial proportion of Rooney's legal expenses, which, together with her own legal costs, have been estimated to total £3 million.

The dispute and trial attracted significant media attention, in part because Vardy and Rooney are "WAGs", an acronym applied by the British media to the wives and girlfriends of prominent British footballers. The case acquired its popular name, a portmanteau of WAG and the name of the whodunnit fiction writer Agatha Christie, because of the steps taken by Rooney to investigate the source of the leaks.

Dispute

In 2019, Coleen Rooney, the wife of the footballer Wayne Rooney, suspected that posts from her private Instagram account were being leaked to The Sun, a British tabloid newspaper that regularly publishes celebrity stories. [1] To determine the source of the stories, Rooney posted fabricated stories and changed the settings of her Instagram so that Rebekah Vardy (the wife of footballer Jamie Vardy), whom she suspected to be the source of the leaks, was the only one who could view them. [1] The Sun published these stories, which included claims that the basement of Rooney's house had flooded, that Rooney had visited Mexico to "make a baby girl", and that Rooney had planned to appear on Strictly Come Dancing . [2] [3]

In late 2019, Rooney posted on Twitter that Vardy's Instagram account had leaked the stories to the press. Rooney's tweet went viral and was dubbed "Wagatha Christie", a portmanteau of the term "WAG" – an acronym for the wives and girlfriends of professional athletes – and the name of Agatha Christie, a well-known writer of whodunit crime fiction. The term was originally coined on Twitter by writer and comedian Dan Atkinson. [4] [5] Vardy responded to Rooney on Twitter, denying the claims and implying her Instagram account had been hacked. [6]

Litigation

Proceedings and trial

Vardy in 2018 Rebekah Vardy attends England-Panama match at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.jpg
Vardy in 2018

In June 2020, Vardy commenced action in the English High Court to sue Rooney for defamation. [7] Defamation and libel cases are often not brought to the High Court; lawyers often advise against taking such cases to court because the reputational loss for the complainant is often high. [8] At a preliminary High Court hearing on 19 November 2020, Mr. Justice Warby found Rooney had used defamatory words about Vardy. Neither Rooney nor Vardy were at the court. [9]

Vardy argued that the accusation over her Instagram account was false. Following the earlier ruling, it was Rooney's onus to prove Vardy was responsible for leaking stories to The Sun or to convince the judge that publication of the allegation was in the public interest. [10] Rooney testified that she offered several out-of-court settlements. [11]

The trial commenced on 10 May 2022. [5] [12] During the proceedings, Rooney requested documents related to The Sun publisher News Group Newspapers and four The Sun journalists. The judge Mrs. Justice Steyn allowed Vardy to use written summaries from these journalists as part of the case. [13]

The judge also asked for the mobile phones of Vardy and her agent Caroline Watt to be searched. Watt said she had accidentally dropped her phone into the North Sea during a family holiday in Scotland. [14] [15] [16] Vardy's copy of the messages were said to have been lost during a failed backup when Vardy's technology expert "[forgot] the password which he used to encrypt the material". [17] Rooney's lawyer David Sherborne said these were attempts to conceal incriminating evidence. [18] [19] Rooney's lawyers also cited the Armory v Delamirie case of 1722, which set a precedent stating that any deliberately missing evidence in a case should be assumed to be of the highest possible value, arguing that this also applies to electronic communications. [20]

Rooney alleged Vardy was the source of information for The Sun on Sunday 's "Secret Wag" feature, an anonymous column that discussed the private lives of others. [21] [22] Sherborne questioned Vardy about her history of leaking information to the tabloid press, quoting from a 2004 interview in which Vardy detailed a sexual encounter with singer Peter Andre. [23] [24] Vardy apologised, saying her former husband had forced her to participate in the interview [25] and that her words had been misrepresented. [26] The trial ended on 19 May 2022. [27]

Judgment

On 29 July, Mrs. Justice Steyn ruled in favour of Rooney. Steyn said that Vardy had regularly passed information about Rooney to the press, was critical of missing evidence from Vardy and called her evidence "manifestly inconsistent with the contemporaneous documentary evidence, evasive or implausible" on "many occasions". [1] Steyn also said The Sun on Sunday's "Secret Wag" column "is highly likely ... [to have been] a journalistic construct rather than a person", and that "the evidence connecting Ms Vardy to this column is thin". [28] [29]

Vardy faced estimated legal costs of approximately £3 million. [30] At a subsequent hearing, Mrs. Justice Steyn ordered Vardy to pay 90% of Rooney's costs, with the first installment assessed at £800,000, to be paid by mid-November 2022. [31] The full amount was expected to be approximately £1,500,000. [32] Vardy's legal costs were estimated to be similar, meaning the libel case may have cost her more than £3 million in total. [31]

Post-trial reaction

From Vardy and Rooney

After the trial, Vardy said that she was "extremely sad and disappointed at the decision" and that she had been the subject of "vile abuse" since the trial began. [33] She told Kate McCann of TalkTV that the media coverage of the case had been sexist and misogynistic, [34] and she was later said to be experiencing panic attacks and post-traumatic stress as a result of the trial. [35] In 2023 it was reported that Vardy had trademarked the term Wagatha Christie. [36]

In a press statement after the trial, Rooney said that she was pleased but did not believe the case should have gone to court when the money could have been better spent elsewhere. [37] Rooney subsequently described her experience of the litigation as "horrible". She acknowledged that Vardy was "obviously going through it" as a result of the case, but said she could not understand why Vardy had put herself in that position. She has also said she would never forgive Vardy. [38]

Media commentary, coverage and dramatisations

The trial received international media coverage. [28] Helen Lewis, a writer for the American magazine The Atlantic , called the case "the most ill-advised defamation case" since Oscar Wilde's dispute with the Marquess of Queensberry. Lewis wrote that the trial represented "a clash between different ideas of celebrity", with Rooney guarding her privacy and Vardy "an avatar of a made-for-Instagram world, in which you are a fool if you do not monetise your personal life". [39] The Guardian commented that the judgment had left Vardy's reputation "in tatters". [40]

The trial has been dramatised in stage and television adaptations. Channel 4 broadcast its dramatisation, Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama , in December 2022. [41] Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial, a verbatim dramatisation of the trial, was staged at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End between November 2022 and January 2023. Lucy May Barker and Laura Dos Santos played Vardy and Rooney. [42] A two-part TV documentary, Vardy vs Rooney: The Wagatha Trial, was aired in November 2022 on Discovery+. [43]

In October 2023, Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story, a drama documentary about the story and court case telling Rooney's side of the story, was released on Disney+. [44]

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