Vardy against Rooney
Judge ends bizarre dispute between player women
07.05.2025 – 04:57 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
In the saga around the years of the court between two English players, a court has now obliged one of the two to pay £ 1.4 million.
It is a decision that is supposed to end the year-long jurisdiction between two player women with great attention: Rebekah Vardy, wife of ex-football player Jamie Vardy, is on Tuesday from a court for paying £ 1.65 million) to Coleen Rooney, wife of the former star attack Rooney, committed. “I am serious when I say that I hope this is the end of a long and unhappy path,” said judge Mark Whalan.
The dispute goes back to posts from Coleen Rooney in the 2019 online media. In it, she accused her former friend Rebekah Vardy of passing on private information to the British gossip press. Vardy then sued Rooney for defamation and demanded compensation as to what a court dismissed in July 2022.
At the time, the judge found that the allegations made by Rooney against Vardy were “essentially” met. At that time, Vardy was obliged to contribute £ 1.5 million in Rooney’s attorney fees.
However, Vardy fought the judgment. When the proceedings were to be resumed on Tuesday before the High Court in London, Vardy’s lawyers said that her client was ready for a payment of £ 1.2 million to Rooney. Judge Whalan accepted the offer – but decided that Vardy had to pay 200,000 pounds for further costs Roone’s.
The saga, which is effective in public, was baptized by the British rainbow press “Wagatha Christie”-a play on words from the abbreviation “Wags”, the English collective term for player women (Wives and Girlfriends), as well as the name of the famous crime writer Agatha Christie.
Because Coleen Rooney had acted almost detectively to convict the suspect Vardy. In 2019 she blocked all accounts on her Instagram account, except for that of her friend at the time and posted several invented stories. These then came into the newspaper “The Sun” via Vardy.