four years on from that fateful post in 2019.
If you’re not up to date, Wagatha Christie is a portmanteau of wag (wives and girlfriends of footballers) and acclaimed crime writer Agatha Christie – so named for ’s detective work in sniffing out who was leaking details of her private life to tabloids.
In October four years ago the wife of former and captain Wayne Rooney publicly accused Rebekah Vardy – who is married to striker Jamie Vardy – of leaking ‘false stories’ about her to the press.
Vardy, 41, vehemently denied the claims, proceeding to sue Coleen, 37, for libel. And so Wagatha Christie was born as it made its way into High Court last summer, and had the nation gripped.
Now it all seems to be popping off again, as Rooney has given an interview with , in which .
In an Instagram story just after the interview dropped, Vardy shared a very straight-faced selfie. In it Vardy wore a blue and gold dress, placed her hand on her chin, and appeared to brandish her chunky diamond rings.
In the front cover issue, Coleen revealed no one – not even her husband – knew she was about to drop that bombshell tweet.
‘[The part] my friends and family were most surprised at me [for was] putting the post up,’ she said.
‘What I said in that post, I still stick by today,’ she added.
When asked if she drafted her thoughts on the Notes app, she told the publication: ‘No. I like a pen and paper – a pencil and rubber, actually, so I can rub it out.
‘So I started writing what I wanted to say and then the next morning I put it out there. That was the start of something that I would never have expected.’
Rooney shared that watching Vardy on the stand was ‘quite painful’ and the situation made her feel ‘uneasy.’
In Rooney’s initial post in 2019 she explained how, in order to get to the bottom of the infiltrator’s identity, she systematically blocked all followers of her private Instagram account from seeing her stories — but one – to weed out the guilty party.
She then planted fake stories for the culprit, which made their way into The Sun.
In the end, the judge found Rooney’s lengthy post accusing Vardy of the leaks to be ‘substantially true’.
See the full feature in the September issue of , available via digital download and on newsstands from Tuesday 22 August.
