Wagatha Christie

English libel dispute in 2019–2022

Wagatha Christie
Wagatha Christie is a popular name given to a dispute between Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney, which culminated in a 2022 libel case in the English High Court, Vardy v Rooney. . In 2019, Rooney announced on Twitter that the Instagram account that was leaking the posts from her private Instagram account to the British newspaper The Sun was "Rebekah Vardy's account". In 2020, Vardy sued Rooney for libel, and the case came to trial in London in May 2022. On 29 July 2022, the court dismissed Vardy's claim on the basis that Rooney's statements were substantially true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagatha_Christie

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