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Rebekah Vardy returned to the witness box on Wednesday as her High Court libel battle with Coleen Rooney entered the second day of trial.
In a viral social media post in October 2019, Ms Rooney (36) said she had carried out a “sting operation” and accused Ms Vardy (40) of leaking “false stories” about her private life to the press.
The wife of former England star Wayne Rooney publicly claimed an account behind three fake stories she had posted on her personal Instagram account with the Sun newspaper was Ms Vardy’s.
Ms Vardy, who is married to Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, denies leaking stories to the media and is suing her fellow footballer’s wife for libel, while Ms Rooney is defending the claim on the basis her post was “substantially true”.
Ms Vardy continued to face questions from Ms Rooney’s barrister David Sherborne on Tuesday, who questioned her on a message exchange with her agent Caroline Watt about the failure of one of her husband’s then teammates to come to training in 2018.
Ms Rooney’s barrister David Sherborne read a message from Ms Vardy to Caroline Watt about then Leicester City footballer Riyad Mahrez not coming to training, telling Ms Watt “the lads are fuming”.
Ms Vardy told the court she was “just gossiping”, saying: “It was speculation of just bits of information that I had heard and overheard, and also read in the press before.”
She added: “Yes, it doesn’t look good there, I was gossiping about things that were already in the public domain. I was just gossiping.”
Ms Vardy denied an accusation her agent passed information to the Sun about fellow Leicester players’ reaction to Mr Mahrez missing training.
When asked by Mr Sherborne if her agent Ms Watt had told the newspaper other players were “fuming” about the incident, she said: “That’s absolutely not true.”

Coleen Rooney at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Wednesday. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA


‘Just joking’
Ms Vardy also said she was “just joking” when she discussed with her agent leaking a story about a woman allegedly cheating on her husband.
Mr Sherborne questioned her about what she said in reference to a story about a woman named only as Ms F – a “well-known celebrity” – her estranged husband Mr H and Mr G, a “well-known footballer”.
Ms Vardy told her agent Ms Watt she should “leak the story about her shagging G behind H’s back”, Mr Sherborne said.
Ms Vardy said she was “a bit shocked and a bit disgusted about what I’d seen in the paper”.
Mr Sherborne asked whether she was so annoyed that she had instructed Ms Watt to leak a story about Ms F allegedly cheating.
“That’s the way it reads,” she replied, adding: “Again, in context, bits of information mixed in with other bits of information. I was actually just joking about that one.”
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