Rebekah Vardy has denied telling lies on oath in her High Court ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel trial as she insisted she was not aware if her agent was “stalking” Coleen Rooney.
The two WAGs are at war over Rooney’s 2019 bombshell revelation she suspected former friend Vardy of leaking stories about her to The Sun newspaper.
In evidence on Wednesday, Vardy said texts between her and agent Caroline Watt – allegedly about leaking information on cheating footballers, model Danielle Lloyd, and former Leicester midfielders Danny Drinkwater and Riyad Mahrez – looked bad but were merely “gossip” and “speculation”.
Earlier in her evidence, Vardy said she was “absolutely just joking” when she told her agent to leak a story about an affair between a footballer and a famous married TV personality.
Vardy accepted the messages read like she was directing a leak, but she told the court: “That’s the way it reads, but in context it is bits of information in with other bits of information. I was absolutely just joking about that one.”
Vardy did accept trying to leak information on footballer Danny Drinkwater when he was arrested for drink driving, and had a “fleeting” thought that she wanted paying for the story. However she said the tip was not taken by The Sun as journalists already knew about the arrest.
Vardy’s evidence continues.
