Another blow for Rebekah Vardy as judge rules she MUST pay Coleen Rooney extra £100k in £1.8m Wagatha battle

REBEKAH Vardy has been dealt different Wagatha stroke aft a justice contiguous ruled she indispensable wage Coleen Rooney a further £100,000.

Lawyers for some Wags person been battling it retired successful court erstwhile again this week arsenic a enactment rumbles connected implicit costs.

Rebekah, 42, was ordered to prime up 90 per cent of Coleen's measure - including an archetypal outgo of £800,000 - aft she sensationally lost the libel case.

Senior Costs justice Andrew Gordon-Saker has present ordered Jamie Vardy's woman to manus implicit a further £100,000 wrong 21 days.

He said: "I deliberation determination is immoderate scope for a further outgo connected relationship truthful the suspect (Mrs Rooney) is not kept retired of her costs, and I deliberation that should beryllium nary much than £100,000."

The stroke comes aft Rebekah yesterday mislaid a bid to slash Coleen's costs, which person been enactment astatine £1,833,906.89.

Her lawyer Jamie Carpenter KC accused Coleen's squad of "deliberately deceiving” the tribunal by underestimating costs and clip spent moving connected the case.

But Mr Gordon-Saker recovered "on equilibrium and, I person to say, lone just", that squad Coleen had not committed wrongdoing.

As a result, it would truthful not beryllium "appropriate" to trim the magnitude of money Rebekah should wage - meaning she could inactive beryllium landed with a £1.6million bill.

Mr Carpenter besides accused Coleen's squad of adopting a "kitchen descend approach" erstwhile calculating the total.

He claimed the bill included costs for 1 of Coleen's squad to enactment astatine the 5 prima Nobu Hotel.

It besides included "substantial meal and drinks charges arsenic good as mini bar charges", the lawyer said.

But Robin Dunne, for Coleen, argued it was "frankly outrageous" to impeach them of dishonesty.

He besides said Rebekah had shown "deplorable conduct" successful the lawsuit and and costs could person been little if "she conducted this litigation appropriately".

The lawyer added: "This was a libel assertion which Mrs Vardy chose to launch, contempt knowing that the Instagram post was true.

"Mrs Vardy refused to prosecute with Mrs Rooney to effort and debar these proceedings and by her behaviour meant that important further costs were required to beryllium incurred by Mrs Rooney.

"It sits sick successful Mrs Vardy's rima to present assertion that Mrs Rooney's costs, a large woody of which were caused straight by her conduct, are unreasonable."

Rebekah brought the multi-million lb lawsuit to tribunal aft she was accused of leaking stories to the press.

But Coleen - woman of ex-England ace Wayne - won the epic libel conflict successful 2022 - bringing an extremity to the three-year saga.

The enactment erupted backmost successful October 2019 erstwhile Coleen turned detective and accused Rebekah of sharing stories from her personal Instagram account.

In the infamous post, Coleen said she posted a drawstring of mendacious stories via her Instagram relationship with restricted entree to spot if they appeared successful the media, which they did.

She past said the fake stories had lone been viewed by 1 person, and ended dramatically: “It’s . . . Rebekah Vardy’s account.”

In return, Rebekah declared warfare and accused Coleen of destroying her estimation arsenic she brought the libel lawsuit to court.

But her estimation and finances were near hanging successful tatters aft she was savaged by Mrs Justice Steyn successful her ruling.

The justice said Rebekah "knew of, condoned and was actively engaged" successful leaks to the media by her cause Caroline Watts.

She branded the mum-of-five's evidence as "manifestly inconsistent" but praised Coleen arsenic an "honest and reliable" witness.

Mrs Justice Steyn besides recovered Rebekah deliberately destroyed grounds to screen up her deceit.

The hearing, which neither pistillate attended, travel earlier a afloat "line-by-line" appraisal of costs takes place.

This volition determine the wide magnitude of wealth to beryllium paid and is apt to instrumentality spot next year.