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.

‘That sounds familiar’: Rebekah Vardy took a thinly veiled dig at Coleen Rooney while posting quotes from a court case on her Instagram Story on Tuesday

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.

Timing: 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.

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”.

Case: The WAG, 40, shared the transcript of when Eva Green addressed the High Court, saying it ‘sounds familiar’

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.

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

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.

Drama! Becky took Coleen Rooney to court for defamation, and lost, after Coleen (pictured with her husband Wayne in May) claimed Becky’s Instagram was the source of the stories leaked to The Sun.

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.

Scandal: Rebekah, (left), gave her side of the story about Wagatha’s trial in the docu-series

‘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.

Wagatha Christie Timeline: How Coleen and Rebekah’s War Played Out

September 2017 to October 2019 – The Sun publishes a series of false articles about Coleen, which it claimed she only shared with Vardy in a “cover” operation, including that she traveled to Mexico to investigate the “gender selection” treatment of the baby, her plan to revive her career television and the flooding of her basement.

October 9, 2019 – Coleen uses social media to accuse Rebekah of selling stories from her private Instagram account to tabloids. She makes #WagathaChristie start trending.

February 13, 2020 – In a tearful appearance on ITV’s Loose Women, Rebekah says the stress of the dispute gave her severe anxiety attacks and she “ended up in hospital three times”.

June 23, 2020 – It turns out that Rebekah has started a defamation process against Coleen.

November 19-20, 2020 – The libel battle has its first hearing in London’s High Court. A judge rules that Coleen’s October 2019 post ‘clearly identified’ Rebekah as ‘guilty of gross and ongoing breach of trust’.

Judge Warby concludes that the ‘natural and ordinary’ meaning of the posts was that Rebekah had ‘regularly and frequently abused her status as a trusted follower of Coleen’s personal Instagram account by secretly informing The Sun about the posts and stories. Coleen’s private

February 8 and 9, 2022 – A series of explosive messages between Rebekah and her agent Caroline Watt, which Coleen’s lawyers say were about her, are revealed at a preliminary court hearing.

Coleen’s lawyers are seeking more information from the WhatsApp messages, but the court is told that Ms Watt’s phone fell into the North Sea after a boat she was on hit a wave, before it was pulled up. I could extract more information.

February 14th – Coleen denied permission to file suit in High Court against Ms Watt for misuse of private information to be heard in conjunction with libel battle. A High Court judge, Justice Steyn, says the offer was submitted too late and earlier opportunities to file the lawsuit were not taken.

April 13th – Ms Watt is not in a position to testify orally in the upcoming libel trial, the High Court is told as the case returns for another hearing.

May 10 onwards – The trial started.

July 29 – Rebekah Vardy lost her libel case against Coleen Rooney, the judge ruling that Ms Rooney’s allegation was “substantially true”.

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