Coleen Rooney will tell her side of the 'Wagatha Christie' libel trial story in a new documentary being made by Disney+. The news was revealed at the Edinburgh TV Festival by Sean Doyle, Disney+ director of unscripted content.
He said the channel will have “exclusive access” to Rooney, who is the wife of former England football captain Wayne Rooney. Earlier this month fellow footballer’s wife Rebekah Vardy, 40, lost a libel battle known as “Wagatha Christie” against Rooney over a viral social media post.
The Mirror reports that Disney wrote in an announcement on the project: "The three-part series will take viewers from the circumstances that led to her infamous Instagram post that ‘broke the Internet’ all the way to Coleen being a successful defendant in one of the UK’s highest-profile High Court defamation cases brought against her by Rebekah Vardy.
"In a story for our times, Wagatha Christie will reveal how fiercely determined and resilient Coleen had to be in order to protect her family from the challenges presented by the traditional and social media landscapes."
Dorothy St Pictures, a production company, has been filming with Rooney for the last two years, chronicling the journey of her legal battle with Vardy working alongside Lorton Entertainment to make a TV show. Cameras even shadowed her during the High Court trial in May.
Mr Doyle said it was “a bit surprising” for Disney+ to sign up to do a deal with Coleen Rooney but described hers as a story “people want to hear”.
Coleen conducted a sting operation in 2019, accusing Vardy online of leaking private stories about her to The Sun. Mrs Vardy has always denied she passed information to the newspaper. In the High Court at the end of July Mrs Justice Steyn ruled Coleen's accusation was "substantially true" and she effectively won the court battle.
