Rebekah Vardy does a thinly veiled dig at Coleen Rooney and the Wagatha Christie case

Rebekah Vardy made a subtle hint at Coleen Rooney while posting quotes from a court case on her Instagram Story on Tuesday.

The WAG, 40, shared the transcript of Eva Green addressing the High Court, saying it “sounds familiar”.

The former Bond girl is testifying in a £4m legal battle over A Patriot, a film she was set to star in before production wrapped in October 2019.

She is suing production company White Lantern Films, claiming she is entitled to her $1 million (£810,000) fee for the film, despite its cancellation.

Rebekah wrote on social media: ‘Sounds familiar. Forget that women are not meant to use profanity! And wait for someone else to say that WhatsApp messages are not gospel’

In a second post, he wrote: ‘Oh, that sounds familiar. Using irrelevant things to gain headlines… never’

‘Some people will do or say ANYTHING to divert themselves from their own miserable lives! Emphasis on the word “f**king” as it is very offensive.

On Tuesday, Eva’s lawyer, Edmund Cullen KC, said the legal battle was “designed to paint my client as a diva in order to win headlines and damage her reputation.”

Cullen later said that the messages “need to be seen in the context” of negotiations over buying the rights to the script.

Describing the film as a “passion project”, Cullen said that the actress “did everything she could” to make the film, but “the financial plan was never going to work out”.

It comes after WAG, 40, sensationally claimed she was “framed” during the Wagatha Christie affair, months after losing the high-profile court battle to Coleen.

Rebekah took Coleen to court for defamation, and lost, after Coleen claimed in October 2019 that Rebekah’s social media account was leaking stories about her to the press.

In an interview for a discovery+ documentary, which examines both sides of the bitter courtroom standoff, he says: “I wonder how easy it would be to set someone up in such a way that it looks like they’re the only person who’s seen those [leaked Instagram] posts?

She added: “I find it absolutely unbelievable to this day that he said no one else knew about this.”

During the High Court trial, Judge Steyn said in her July ruling that it was “likely” that Ms Vardy’s agent, Caroline Watt, “performed the direct act” of passing information to The Sun.

The judge said: “The evidence clearly shows, in my opinion, that Ms Vardy knew of and tolerated this behaviour, actively participating in it.”

Rebecca was ordered to pay up to £1.5 million in Coleen’s legal fees after losing the case, but she continues to insist that she was not to blame.

And in the docu-series, Vardy vs Rooney: The Wagatha Trial, Rebekah also claims that a mole is still leaking Rooney stories to The Sun, which she also says proves his innocence.

“The irony is that ever since I was unfollowed, the stories about the Rooneys have been coming up fast,” she said.

A friend of Rebekah’s said WAG’s suspicions were raised when a story appeared in The Sun earlier this year, suggesting that Wayne Rooney would have a ‘chaperone’ when away from Coleen working in the US.

Rebekah, a mother of five, is belligerent in the documentary, giving an interview dressed from head to toe in black leather.

At one point, she says, “I have zero tolerance for this nonsense,” adding, “I just find all of this really fucking weird.”

She was on vacation in Dubai with her husband when Coleen made the allegations on Twitter and Instagram about the leaks.

Rebekah said: ‘At that time I felt physically ill. I think it must have been the biggest panic attack. I was totally shocked. What to do next? That’s the million dollar question.

‘I couldn’t understand why someone would do that. Why would someone do that knowing that someone is vulnerable, knowing the impact that something like that is going to cause? It’s going to cause an a*** storm, a massive one, and it did.”

Referring to a false story about a flooded basement in Coleen’s new Cheshire mansion, Rebekah insisted: “I first read about the flooded basement in the Daily Mail online. I love how they blame me for that, unbelievable.

‘If I had been selling stories, where are the messages saying ‘give this to The Sun’? ‘Make sure I get paid for this.’ Where are they? There are none, because they do not exist.

The court imposed a punitive charge for legal costs and told Rebekah to pay 90 percent of Coleen’s costs.

This was partly because crucial evidence was destroyed after Ms Watt accidentally dropped her phone in the North Sea.

Coleen’s legal team have yet to produce a final total of costs, but the latest figure submitted to the court was £1,667,860. If that remains unchanged, 90 per cent of that would be £1.5m.

Judge Steyn decided 90 percent, acknowledging that there were certain issues that warranted Coleen paying for part of the case, including her “weak” allegation that Rebekah was one of the people behind the “Secret Wag” gossip column from The Sun, which had “added considerably” to the work of Rebekah’s lawyers.

The full amount of Rebekah’s legal costs is unknown, but is expected to be of a similar level to those incurred by Coleen.

The final figure may be lowered if Rebekah does not agree to pay 90 percent and a court later finds some costs unreasonable.