Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney's latest money battle from hotel dig to 'outrageous' claim

I'm a Celebrity contestant Coleen Rooney is claiming much than £1.8 cardinal successful ineligible costs pursuing Rebekah Vardy's failed effort to writer her for libel for her infamous Instagram post

Coleen Rooney mightiness person turned "Wagatha Christie" much than 5 years agone now, but her lawyers' conflict with Rebekah Vardy continues.

The Liverpudlian famously wrote a societal media station that revealed she'd carried retired a '"sting operation" to larn who was leaking gossip astir her and concluded the "false stories" she had concocted were successful the property acknowledgment to Rebekah Vardy's Instagram account. Rebekah furiously denied the allegation, launching a libel lawsuit that took the WAGs each the mode to the High Court.

With fans hooked to each infinitesimal of proceedings, the 2022 proceedings didn't spell Rebekah's mode erstwhile Coleen's ineligible squad managed to uncover messages betwixt the WAG and her cause Caroline Watt, contempt Caroline claiming she had dropped her telephone into the North Sea connected a household holiday. After a station from Mrs Rooney saying idiosyncratic she trusted was leaking stories, the cause wrote to her client: "It wasn't idiosyncratic she trusted, it was me."

This led the justice to authorities that it was "likely" Rebekah's cause had passed accusation to The Sun newspaper. "The evidence... intelligibly shows, successful my view, that Mrs Vardy knew of and condoned this behaviour, actively engaging successful it by directing Ms Watt to the backstage Instagram account, sending her screenshots of Mrs Rooney's posts, drafting attraction to items of imaginable involvement to the press, and answering further queries raised by the property via Ms Watt," said Mrs Justice Steyn.

Rebekah, the woman of footballer Jamie Vardy, was instructed to wage 90 per cent of her WAG nemesis's fees, with an archetypal outgo of £800,000. Paul Lunt, spouse and caput of litigation astatine instrumentality steadfast Brabners which represented Coleen, said: "The High Court has contiguous decided that Rebekah Vardy indispensable wage Coleen Rooney's ineligible costs connected an indemnity ground - the highest ground that the tribunal could order.

"The reasoning fixed for this determination is that determination was a uncovering astatine proceedings that Rebekah Vardy had deliberately deleted oregon destroyed evidence. That behaviour falls extracurricular the mean and tenable behaviour expected of a enactment successful ineligible proceedings."

The WAG continues to situation the costs claims and today, her lawyers asked the tribunal to bid Coleen's squad to manus implicit "privileged" documents, and details astir her assertion for VAT, with Wayne Rooney's wife's lawyers saying this was a "fishing expedition".

In October, the tribunal heard Coleen's broadside had calculated her ineligible measure successful the three-year agelong libel conflict arsenic topping £1.8 million. Rebekah's lawyer Jamie Carpenter KC called this a "kitchen sink" approach, criticising costs for a lawyer staying "at the Nobu Hotel, incurring important meal and drinks charges arsenic good arsenic mini barroom charges" and saying determination were much than £120,000 costs "of which Mrs Rooney has nary entitlement". It is thought Rebekah had estimated her full measure would beryllium astir £500,000.

But Robin Dunne, acting for Coleen, argued it was "outrageous" to impeach them of being dishonest and slammed Rebekah's "deplorable conduct", adding that the ineligible costs would person been little if "she conducted this litigation appropriately."

Senior costs justice Andrew Gordon-Saker ordered Mrs Vardy to wage a further £100,000 to Mrs Rooney wrong 21 days, with a afloat magnitude to beryllium paid astatine a aboriginal date. 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."

Coleen branded the proceedings "horrible" successful an interview with British Vogue past year. She suggested she could not forgive Mrs Vardy for her libel claim, but said "the alleviation was everything" to win.